PRESENTS

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MRS. MULDOWNEY'S and MRS. MILLER'S
CLASS
PRESENTS
AMAZING INSECTS
June 6, 2007
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Ant

• Timmy Haas
• Spencer Gordon

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Where do ANTS live?

• Under rocks
• In the dark
• Underground
• In a crack
• Dead trees
• In leaves

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What do ANTS eat?

• Meat
• Dead insects
• Worms
• Lizards
• Seeds
• Honeydew
• Ants
• Fruit

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What do ANTS look like?

• ¼ ½
• 2 antennae
• 0 or 2 wings
• Black , blue , brown , red ,yellow , green
• 6 legs
• 3 body parts
• Head , thorax , abdomen
• Mandibles

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How do ANTS protect themselves ?

• Swarms
• Toxic venom
• Poisonous stings
• Guard ants
• Bite

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BEE

• Olivia Mangano
• Aashka Patel

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What does the bee look like?

• 2 antennae
• 2 compound eyes
• Pollen basket on legs
• 6 legs and 3 body parts
• 3 simple eyes

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What is the life cycle of the bee?

• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa
• Adult

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Where can the bee be found most of the time?

• In their hive
• In flowers
• Hibernating
• Flying outside

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What can harm the bee?

• Bears
• Bug Spray
• Extreme Weather
• Stinging its Prey

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Butterfly

• Piper Jones
• Emily Stranford
  

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What does the butterfly look like?

• Orange, white and black
• 4 ½ inches
• 4 wings
• 6 legs
• 2 antennae
• Head, thorax, abdomen

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What does the Butterfly eat?

• Nectar
• Weeds
• Pollen

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What is the life cycle of a butterfly?

• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa
• Adult

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What is the habitat of the butterfly

• Tropical areas
• Throughout North America
• It migrates to Mexico

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COCKROACH

• ETHAN MCAULIFFE
• TJ ELLIS

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WHAT DO THEY EAT?

• Cheese
• Leather
• Dried skin
• Glue
• Leeches

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Where do they live?

• Tropics
• Warm moist regions of the world
• Cracks between walls and floors
• Kitchens
• Bathrooms

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Where do they lay their eggs?

• Infested areas
• Homes
• Food
• Bathrooms

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DID YOU KNOW

• That a cockroach can survive a nuclear explosion

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Cricket

• Tyler Dekorte
• Alex Miller

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What does a cricket look like?
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• 4 wings
• 6 legs
• 2 antennae
• Black or brown
• Head thorax abdomen
• Palps and mandibles

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How does a cricket protect itself?

• Good ears to sense things
• It has strong legs
• Spiders, wasps, lizards and small rodents harm
  it.

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What does a cricket eat?

• Grass
• Worms
• Leaves
• Fruits
• Fungi
• Dead insects
• Scavengers
• Omnivores

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What is the life cycleof the cricket?

• Incomplete metamorphosis
• Egg ,nymph, adult

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Dragonfly

• Violet Myles
• Erin Milliron

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What Do They Look Like?

• 4 clear and yellow wings
• Compound eyes
• Blue abdomen
• Green thorax

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Where do they live?

• Near ponds
• Hot temperatures
• In water

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What is their life cycle?

• Egg
• Larva
• Nymph
• Nymph
• Nymph
• Adult

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What do they eat?

• Mosquitoes
• Flies
• Little fish

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Fireflies

• Erin Bartlett
• Elizabeth McCullough

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What does the firefly look like?

• Dark brown
• Black
• Pinkish reddish
• Yellow
• Orange
• Light on the tip of the abdomen

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What Is the fireflys life cycle?

• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa
• Adult
• Complete metamorphosis

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Where does the firefly live?

• North America
• South America
• Southern Canada
• Chile
• Argentina

• Fiji
• Pacific Islands
• Tropical America
• New Hebrides
• New Caledonia

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What does the firefly eat?

• Dissolved snails
• Other small insects
• Pollen
• Nectar
• Plants

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Fly

• Cary Palmer
• Justin Lamb

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• Where do flies lives ?
• Everywhere in the world
• Migrates to a warmer climate

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What do flies look like?

• 2 Transparent wings
• Colors green, brown, white ,black
• 12.5 mm
• 3 body parts head, thorax, abdomen

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What do flies eat?

• Rotten fruit
• Grasshoppers eggs
• Blood
• Animal ribs
• Human food
• Tastes using their feet

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How does the fly protect itself?

• Fast flyers
• Spread diseases

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Grasshoppers

• Akash Patel
• Shane Hieber

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What does the Grasshopper looks like?

• Green, brown, navy blue, black, yellow, orange
• 6 legs
• Head, thorax and abdomen
• 4 wings
• 2 antennae
• 2 palps

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What do Grasshoppers eat ?

• Plants

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Where do Grasshoppers live ?

• Widespread in U.S.
• Warm weather
• Backyards
• Trees, plants and leaves

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How do Grasshoppers protect themselves?

• Camouflage
• Brown saliva
• Brightly colored underwings

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Ladybug

• Grace Kennedy
• Kathryn Greeley

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What does a ladybug look like?

• Red
• Orange
• Black spots
• Small
• Six legs
• Beetle

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How does a ladybug protect itself?

• Juice comes out of legs

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What does a ladybug eat?

• aphids
• Leaves

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What is the life cycle of a ladybug?

• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa
• adult

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Praying Mantis

• TJ Ayrer
• Kevin Biddulph

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What does it eat?

• Butterflies
• Spiders
• Small bats
• Crickets
• Flies
• Fireflies
• Caterpillars

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What does the praying mantis look like?

• Green, white, tan, light brown
• Exoskeleton
• Pinchers
• Strong back legs
• Wide and sharp jaws
• Head, thorax and abdomen
• Antennae
• Compound eyes and lots of lenses

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Where do they live?

• All continents except Antarctica
• Southern Canada
• Western Canada
• Rain forest
• Madagascar
• North America

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How does it protect itself ?

• Trees
• Leaves
• Uses sharp pinchers
• In bushes

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Thank you for sharing our research. We hope you
enjoyed our presentation.

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DEAR FAMILIES,
THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT THIS
YEAR.
HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER!
Love, Mrs. Muldowney and Mrs. Miller