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,
balsam woolly adelgid Adelges piceae,
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)
(educational videos from OSU),
and videos above or to right of rehearsals before 4-H presentation Be a Bee.
For full effect, select a video image,
then icons ㏄ captions and ⛶ fullscreen,
▶︎ Play, and ⏯︎ ☒ Skip Ads.
Then a video highlighting bees in the backyard (PBS program Nature episode "My Garden of a Thousand Bees") is above or to left.
For full effect, select the video image,
then icons ⤢ fullscreen, ㏄ captions=On,
and ▶︎ Play.
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,
🕷 eriophyid mites Phyllocoptes fructiphilus,
Japanese beetle Popillia japonica,
pine shoot beetle Tomicus piniperda,
Asian giant "murder" hornet Vespa mandarinia,
fireflies family Lampyridae
(despite its common name, not a fly but a beetle), and
🐜︎🐛︎ true bugs order Hemiptera.
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