ANIMAL SCIENCE INSECT ORDER PROJECT

LEPIDOPTERA

• Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies.
• It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the
• World

COLEOPTERA

• COLEOPTERA ARE INSECTS SUCH AS BEETLES
• The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek meaning "sheath".
• So Coleoptera means "sheathed wing"

HEMIPTERA

• IS AN ORDER OF INSECTS MOST OFTEN KNOWN AS THE TRUE BUGS, COMPRISING AROUND
• 50,000–80,000 SPECIES OF CICADAS, APHIDS, PLANTHOPPERS, LEAFHOPPERS, SHIELD BUGS, AND
• Others.

ORTHOPTERA

• IS AN ORDER OF INSECTS WITH PAUROMETABOLOUS OR INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS,
• INCLUDING THE GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS, WETA, AND LOCUSTS.

BLATTARIA OR BLATTODEA,

• Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of
• 4,500 total are associated with human habitats.
• About four species are well known as pests.

Odonata

• Odonata is an order of carnivorous insects, encompassing dragonflies and damselflies.
• The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata, but odonate is a more .
• correct English name for the group as a whole.

HYMENOPTERA

• The Hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees
• And ants. Over 130,000 species are recognized, with many more remaining to be described

DIPTERA

• True flies are insects of the order Diptera. Their most obvious distinction from other orders of .
• insects is that a typical fly possesses a pair of flight wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres

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