Insects

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Insects
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Insect Project

• 18 insect species
• Labels must have common name on each
• Plus place found and person who found it
• 2 must have proper scientific name
• Pinned through the thorax
• Wings spread on all moths, dragonflies and
  butterflies
• Presentation counts

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Arachnid Project

• 12 spider species
• Each label must have common name
• 2 must have proper scientific name
• All must have place where it was found and the
  name of the person who found it.
• Presentation counts

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Leaf Project

• 18 leaf species
• 1 2 leaves per page so that you have a book
• All leaves must be identified by the plant they
  came from using both the common name and the
  scientific name.
• All leaves must be identified with the place the
  leaf was found and the person who found it.
• Use a leaf press to flatten and dry leaves (5-7)
  days

Red Maple Acer rubrum Pine Bush, NY Collected by
Michael Raucci
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Leaf Press

• 1) Select a flat area on the floor, desk, or
  tabletop in a room with good air circulation.
• 2) Place wax paper or foil on the surface you
  choose. This is for protection of both the leaves
  and the surface.
• 3) Prepare necessary sheets of unfolded newspaper
  adequate for the number of leaves you have
  collected. You want several paper thicknesses per
  layer between each pressing.
• 4) Place the fresh leaf specimen(s) to be pressed
  on the first sheet layers. Be careful not to let
  leaves overlap or wrinkle by overcrowding. Then
  simply use additional layers of paper between
  more pressings.
• 5) Cover the top and final layer of newspaper
  with stiff cardboard or plywood, which has been
  cut to the same size as the paper.
• 6) Place sufficient weight (books, bricks, etc.)
  on top of the plywood/cardboard to press leaves
  flat and hold them in position.

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What is an insect?

• Insects belong to the Kingdom of ___________?
• There are six Kingdoms
• 1) _____________________?
• 2) _____________________?
• 3) _____________________?
• 4) _____________________?
• 5) _____________________?
• 6) _____________________?

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What are the characteristics of an insect?

• _____________________?
• _____________________?
• ____________ eyes
• 1 pair of ______________?
• _______legs
• 3 part body
• _________, ____________,
• ____________
• Develop through _______________.

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Arthropods that are not Insects

• Centipedes and Millipedes
• Crustaceans (lobsters, crabs, shrimp,)
• Arachnids (spiders,scorpions, mites, and ticks)

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How many are there?

• 290,000 species of beetles
• 103,000 species of ants, bees and wasps
• 112,000 moths and butterflies
• 164,000 other insects (flys etc.)

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If you calculated the weight of all the insects
in the world..

• It would be more than all other animals combined.

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Monarch Butterflies

• Gather in Mexico as many as 4 million per acre.

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The Honey Bee Waggle Dance

• When food is within 5075 meters of the hive, the
  scouts dance the "round dance" on the surface of
  the comb (left). But when the food is farther
  than 75 meters from the hive, the scouts dance
  the "waggle dance" (right).
• The waggle dance has two components
• a straight run the direction of which conveys
  information about the direction of the food
• the speed at which the dance is repeated which
  indicates how far away the food is.

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• Butterfly and moth wings are covered with many
  individually colored scales (actually broad
  hairs) that make up the pattern designs and
  coloration characteristics for each species.

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Not an Insect?