CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

• Interesting facts about different orders of
  insects
• Coleoptera (Beetles lady bird, goliath,
  hercules, dung, tiger, firefly )
• Hemiptera (Bugs Assassin bug )
• Homoptera (Cicadas)
• Lepidoptera (Butterfly, Moths )
• Hymenoptera (Wasps, Ants, Bees)
• Isoptera (termites)
• Mantodea (Praying mantis )
• Blattodea (Cockroach )
• Orthoptera (Grasshopper, Cricket )
• Diptera (House fly, Bot fly, Mosquito )
• Odonata (Dragonfly )
• Phasmatodea (Jungle nymph stick, walking stick )
  
• Siphonaptera (Flea )
• Strepsiptera (Twisted wing parasite )

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BEETLES (coleoptera)
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Ladybug (Coccinellidae)
Beetles

• Beetles taste like apples(40)
• The metallic-colored wing covers of some beetles
  are used for jewelry.(2)

• Not bugs.
• The Ladybird Beetle.(6)
• Eats bad insects called aphids. (1)
• They may even produce a foul-smelling odor from a
  fluid from joints in their legs.(27)

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• When threatened, ladybugs "play dead. (27)
• They are named after the Virgin Mary. 'Our Lady',
  who wore a red cloak in old paintings. The 7
  spots are supposed to remind us of the 7 joys and
  the 7 sorrows.(27)
• In many countries, ladybugs are considered to be
  good luck.(27)
• During hibernation, ladybugs feed on their stored
  fat.

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Goliath beetle (Scarabaeidae)

• The biggest and the heaviest bug in the world.
• which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5
  inches long, A big male can weigh up to 100
  grams.(2)
• Goliath beetles can be kept as pets, just feed
  them dog food.(38)

Hercules beetle (Scarabaeidae)

• Strongest animal on earth

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Dung Beetles (Scarabaeidae)

• The female lays a single egg into each ball of
  dung and then covers the nest with more dung and
  soil.(16)
• In ancient Egypt it was the most important
  religious symbol.
• Without dung beetles, the earth would be piled
  high with manure.
• It can use polarized moonlight at night to
  navigate the way as it rolls a dung ball to a
  safe spot away from the pile.

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• With a moon, the beetles rolled their dung balls
  away in a straight line. This is the most
  efficient path.
• Without a moon, the beetles could not roll the
  ball in a straight line. (16)

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Tiger beetle (Carabidae)

• Voracious predatory sun-loving insects. (32)
• These have a speed of 25 miles per hour in short
  bursts making them the fastest land insects in
  the world

• If they chase prey at high speeds, they'll go
  blind.
• Tiger beetles stop-and-go in their pursuit of
  prey.
• "If the tiger beetles move too quickly, they
  don't gather enough photons to form an image of
  their prey,. (32)

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Firefly (Lampyridae)

• Fireflies are also called Lightning Bugs. (24)
• Fireflies are soft bodied beetles
• On the underside of the abdomen it have special
  light organs that glows in luminous flashes.
• Fireflies Use Aggressive Mimicry
• Recent evidence also suggests that these female
  mimics are not only acquiring food but also
  defensive chemicals from their prey, which they
  themselves do not produce in large quantities.
  (24)

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• The taillight contains two rare chemicals,
• 1. Luciferin, a heat resistant substrate, is the
  source of light
• Luciferase, an enzyme,
• Oxygen is the fuel. A body chemical, ATP converts
  to energy and causes the Luciferin-luciferase
  mixture to light up.
• As all living cells contain ATP in a rather
  constant concentration, injection of the
  firefly's chemicals quickly detects energy
  problems in human cells.

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• The firefly technique is used to study heart
  disease, muscular dystrophy, urology, antibiotic
  testing, waste water treatment, environmental
  protection and diagnosis of hypothermia in swine.
• Special electronic detectors, using firefly
  chemicals, have been placed in spacecrafts to
  look for earth-life forms in outer space. (25)

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BUGS (Hemiptera)

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Assassin bug (Reduviidae)

• They get their name because of the speed that
  they have to grab and poison their prey.

• The saliva of the assassin bug starts to work
  almost immediately. Cockroaches die in only 3 or
  4 seconds.

• Assassin bugs also transmit a parasite to man
  that causes Chagas disease.
• Assassin bugs, known as "kissing bugs,
• Kissing bugs can be the source of nocturnal
  dermatologic wounds in the mid to southern
  latitudes in the United States. (8)

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CICADAS
(Homoptera)
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CICADA

• Cicadas are also called harvest flies or
  locusts(54)
• Actually they are not locusts(56)

• The male cicada makes the loudest sound in the
  insect world

• After the adults have mated both will die.

• "Music boxes" at the base of the abdomen have no
  cover and its eyes and the principal veins of the
  wings are red.
• The sudden appearance of the adults in large
  numbers has been supposed to foretell war.(54)

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BUTTERFLIY (Lepidoptera)
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Butterflies

• They get their name from the yellow brimstone
  butterfly of Europe
• First seen in the early spring or "butter" season
• Taste sensors are located below their feet.
• The color is produced prism-like by light
  reflected by their transparent wing scales.
• A butterfly has to have a body temperature
  greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.
• A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and
  yellow.(5)

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Queen Alexandra butterflies (Papilionidae)

• The largest butterfly is the Queen Alexandra's
  birdwing butterfly from Papua New Guinea.
• The wingspan of the butterfly can reach to be
  almost one foot or larger than 26 cm. (5)

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Monarch butterfly (Nymphalidae)

• The fastest flying butterfly which has been
  clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles/hr. (5)
• During migration they mate and lay eggs along the
  way and at their landing place. (1)
• Lay eggs on the milkweed. The larvae eat the
  milkweed.
• Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times
  before they become a chrysalis.(4)

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MOTH
(Lepidoptera)
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Night butterflies

• It has ears on their wings to avoid bats.(5)

Atlas Moth
(Saturniidae)

• The atlas moth one of the largest silk moths, can
  be mistaken for a medium-sized bat when
  flying.(2)

Sphinx Moths (Sphingidae)

• It has impressive speed and sometimes seem almost
  birdlike(37)

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WASP (Hymenoptera)
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Wasp

• Wasps taste like pine nuts. (40)

Tarantula wasps ( Pompilidae)

• It paralyzes tarantulas and lay a single egg on
  the still living spider when the egg hatches,
  the wasp larva has fresh food.

• Tarantula has eight eyes but it can not tell
  light from dark and it is also deaf. (21)

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ANTS
(Hymenoptera)
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Ants

• Ants can carry objects that weight 100 times the
  weight of their own body.(2)
• Colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same
  size brain as a human.
• Ant brains are largest amongst insects.
• An ant's brain may have the same processing
  power as a Macintosh II computer.
• Some ants sleep seven hours a day.
• The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs.
• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a
  dog's is.(18)

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• Some birds put ants in their feathers because the
  ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the
  parasites.
• The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over
  to its right side.(41)
• Ants really produce antifreeze agents(49)
• One kind of ant is like a dairy farmer. He keeps
  little "cows" called aphids. In the winter, these
  ants carry aphids into their nests and care for
  them. In the spring, the aphids are placed on
  plants, where they feed.

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• When ants rub the bodies of the aphids a sweet
  liquid comes out, which the ants drink.(50)
• When they are not working, they spend much of
  their tine making themselves neat.
• They cannot bear anything dead around. If an
  insect dies near their hone, a large number of
  them gather together to push the body out of the
  way.(51)

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Army ants (formicidae)

• Animals the size of horses being overwhelmed and
  shredded by them.(7)

Slave-maker ant (formicidae)

• The Slave-Maker Ant steals the pupae of other
  ants. When these new ants hatch, they work as
  slaves within the colony.

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Carpenter ant (formicidae)

• In the Mediterranean, ants are used by surgeons
  to close incisions they are made to bite
  together an open wound, and then their heads are
  severed from their bodies. Their jaws will remain
  locked until the incision heals.(43)
• These ants are known as carpenter ants because
  they house their colonies in galleries they
  excavate in wood. Carpenter ants do not eat the
  wood.(4)

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Tree ants (formicidae)

• They build the traps from tree fibers reinforced
  with fungus.
• When an unsuspecting insect encounters the trap,
  the ants emerge from hiding underneath and pull
  the preys legs to immobilize them. Then they
  dismember the victim and carry the parts off to
  the colony.(38)

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BEES
(Hymenoptera)
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HoneyBees (Apidae)

• Bees possess five eyes.
• Honeybees can perceive movements that are
  separated by 1/300th of a second. Humans can only
  sense movements separated by 1/50th of a second.
  Were a bee to enter a cinema, it would be able to
  differentiate each individual movie frame being
  projected.
• Bees cannot recognize the color red.
• Honeybees are the only insects that produce food
  for humans.
• About 8 pounds of honey is eaten by bees to
  produce 1 pound of bee wax.

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• The average hive temperature is 93.5 degrees.
• One single bee usually visits between 50-1000
  flowers a day
• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• The brain of the honeybee is superior to the
  supercomputer computer by several orders of
  magnitude.  The supercomputer can compute at the
  rate of one billion computations per second. The
  honeybee's brain can compute one billion
  computations in 1/1000 of a second.(47)

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• In the course of her lifetime, a worker bee will
  produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
• To produce 2 pounds of honey, bees travel a
  distance equal to 4 times around the earth.(9)
• The energy in one ounce of honey would provide
  one bee with enough energy to fly around the
  world.(9)

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Africanized honey bee (Apidae)

• The most dangerous bee of all.
• The reason for this is that when these bees
  attack, they attack in swarms.
• Their venom is not any deadlier than other bees,
  but, since they attack in swarms, more stings are
  received.
• Africanized Honey Bees (killer bees) will pursue
  an enemy 1/4 mile or more.(9,39)

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TERMITE(Isoptera)
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Termites

• Lots of people eat termites, winged termites are
  very nutritious ,but when lightly fried,
  reasonably tasty.
• Termites are important in the diets of many ants,
  lizards, birds, and are also eaten by lions and
  gorillas(44)
• Wood eating termites, cannot digest cellulose! So
  they have flagellates in their intestine. These
  tiny flagellates make enzymes that break down the
  cellulose of wood and also supply protein. They
  digest the wood for the termite.(52)

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PRAYING MANTIS
(Mantids/ Mantodea)
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Praying mantis

• The female is green and the male is brown. The
  female mantis will consume the male after they
  mate.
• Some farmers use praying mantis instead of
  chemicals to control pests in their crops. (1)
• Praying mantids are among the few insects which
  can rotate their heads so they can literally look
  over their shoulders, making them extremely
  effective predators.
• The mantids sheds its skin twelve times before it
  is full grown.(48)

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COCHROACH (Blattodea)

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COCHROACH

• Cockroaches could be used to place surveillance
  devices in military installations (11)
• Scientists have actually performed brain surgery
  on cockroaches.(19)
• A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times
  in a second.
• If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another
  one.
• The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280
  million years old 80 million years older than
  the first dinosaurs!

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• Cockroach can live up to nine days without its
  head
• German cockroaches can survive for up to one
  month without food and two weeks without water.
  (19)
• Some female cockroaches mate once and are
  pregnant for the rest of their lives (bummer).
  (12)
• Cockroaches can run up to three miles in an
  hour.(13)
• The world's largest roach (which lives in South
  America) is six inches long with a one-foot
  wingspan. (12)

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Madagascar hissing cockroach (Blaberidae)

• large, wingless cockroach from Madagascar. (11)
• Hissing plays an important role during male-male
  inter- actions.
• It is one of the few insects who give birth to
  live young, rather than laying eggs
• Sailors on infested ships have been known to wear
  gloves on their hands while asleep to keep the
  roaches from gnawing off their fingernails.(45)

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Cockroaches and The Bomb

• During a nuclear war we die but they live
  Because cockroaches can tolerate a much higher
  dose of rems. The lethal dose for the German
  cockroach it is between 90,000 and 105,000 rems.
• In truth the amount of radiation that cockroaches
  can withstand is equivalent to that of a
  thermonuclear explosion.

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GRASSHOPPER (Orthoptera)
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Grasshopper

• A more attractive feature of some grasshoppers is
  their ability to sing. It's the males that sing.
  (26)
• Grasshoppers can jump 40 times the length of
  their body.(2)
• They can jump on earth in proportion to their
  size.(34)
• Short horned grasshoppers have ears in the sides
  of the abdomen. Long-horned grasshoppers have
  ears in the knee-joints of their front legs. (26)
• Grasshoppers can draw blood with a kick.(33)

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CRICKET (Orthoptera)
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Cricket

• Crickets have ears in the knee-joints of their
  front legs. (26)
• chirping noise is produced by rubbing its
  forewings together.
• The higher the air temperature the greater number
  of chirps it generates per minutes.(17)
• Crickets are good temperature reader.(26)
• Some crickets are intelligent, they make a
  conical-shaped hole that help amplify the sound
  of their chirps allowing it to be heard as far as
  2,000 feet away.

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Locusts (Orthoptera)

• Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a
  day.(4)

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FLIES
( Diptera)

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House fly (Muscidae)

• A house fly's feet are 10 million times more
  sensitive than a humans tongue . Flies can
  "taste" with their feet(2)
• Hairy and sticky toe pads.(23)
• Carry and Transmit more diseases than any other
  animal in the world
• The house fly "hums" in the key of F

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Bot Fly

(Oestridae)

• They have delightfully descriptive names like
  Horse Stomach Bot Fly, Human Bot Fly.
• Human Bot Fly larvae, burrowing into your brain
  and eating your thoughts. (55)

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MOSQUITO
( Diptera)
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MOSQUITO

• Biting activity increase by 500 times when there
  is a full moon.(30)
• Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it
  irritates their feet.(36)
• The itch from a mosquito bite can be soothed by
  cutting open a clove of garlic and rubbing it on
  the bite.(36)
• Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more
  than any other color.(36)
• A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft
  away.

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• Mosquitoes find new hosts by sight (they observe
  movement) by detecting infra-red radiation
  emitted by warm bodies and by chemical signals
  (mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and
  lactic acid, among other chemicals).
• HIV virus responsible for the AIDS infection is
  regarded as food to the mosquito and is digested
  along with the blood meal.
• The average mosquito has 47 teeth (33)
• They cant survive at temperatures of 50 degrees
  and below(42)

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DRAGONFLY
(Odonata)
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Dragonfly

• Fastest known insect is a dragon fly that has
  been clocked at 58 kilometers an hour.(2)
• Dragonflies can fly both forward and
  backward.(39)
• They have two sets of wings. They dont have to
  beat their wings in unison. Their front wings can
  be going up while their backs ones are going
  down.
• Names for dragonflies around the world are Old
  Glassy from China, Water Dipper from England.(46)
  

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Jungle Nymph Stick (order- Phasmida)

• The Jungle Nymph Stick is one of the heaviest
  insects.
• In Malaysia they are often kept by people who
  feed them guava leaves and use the droppings to
  make tea. (2)

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WALKING STICK (order-Phasmida)

• The eggs of walking stick insects are among the
  largest in the insect world.
• Some eggs are more than eight millimeters long.
• Longest insect that can reach a length of 33
  centimetres.(2)

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Flea
(order- Siphonaptera)
Flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the
same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in
the air. Most fleas do not live past a year old
(36)
Japanese Giant Hornet
(order-Hymenoptera) (Family-Vespidae)

• It has the size of your thumb and it can spray
  flesh-melting poison. it eats the bees

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TWISTED-WING PARASITE
(order- Strepsiptera)

• The larval stage parasite will climb a flower
  and wait for an insect pollinator.
• Burrow into bee's body, and change into a
  second-stage larva.
• An adult male parasite will emerge from the host
  and search for a mate
• He never develops a mouth.
• The adult female remains in the hosts body for
  the rest of her life,
• Never growing legs or wings.
• She mates by pushing only her reproductive
  organs outside of the bees body! Her offspring
  will emerge and look for new hosts.(38)

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SUMMARY
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THANX FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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