Insects are animals with:
- three pairs (6) (usually) of jointed legs,
- one pair of antennae,
- compound eyes, and
- an exoskeleton (their bones are on the outside).
Part of
arthropod ("jointed foot") phylum Arthropoda
in
🐟︎ 🐢︎🐇︎🐜︎🐛︎ animal kingdom Animalia.
Insects are divided into 6-10 million species, making up 50-90% of all animal types on earth. You will find insects in almost all parts of the land and air, and some parts of the ocean.
🚧 In the future, we may add here identification paths for specific species of insects, probably starting with
gall adelgid Adelges cooleyi,
hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) Adelges tsugae,
two-lined chestnut borer Agrilus bilineatus,
emerald ash borer (EAB) Agrilus planipennis,
🐝︎ honeybee genus Apis,
🐝︎ bumblebee genus Bombus
(Michigan Natural Features Inventory),
and videos above or to right of rehearsals before 4-H presentation Be a Bee.
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beech scale/beech bark disease Cryptococcus fagisuga,
monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus,
mountain pine beetle (MPB) Dendroctonus ponderosae,
black-legged deer ticks genus Ixodes
⚕︎ ticks and tick-borne diseases (🇺🇸 USA CDC),
🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF) Lycorma delicatula,
spruce spider mite Olibonhychus ununguis,
Japanese beetle Popillia japonica,
pine shoot beetle Tomicus piniperda,
fireflies family Lampyridae
(despite its common name, not a fly but a beetle), and
🐜︎🐛︎ true bugs order Hemiptera.
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