PPT-Insects and Insect Habitats

Open your class notebook to the next available page and label it with todays date and the title above Now you are ready to begin What to do As you review the remaining slides in the powerpoint. Or. Insect Evolution. Pests, Plagues & Politics. Lecture 4. Key Points. Insect Evolution. Evolution by Natural Selection. Survival of the Fittest. The 5 Principles. How is Paleoentomology important?. Created based on the list used during the 2014-2015 season.. Section 1: Identification. Part 1: Tricky . Taxons. In this section, for each picture, list the lowest taxon required by the list (order or family, depending on the specimen shown).. Insect Lesson, Photos, Resources, & Extension Activities. Did you know that insects are oviparous?. Insects lay their eggs in many different places. Some lay them on leaves or underground.. Did you know that insects have three main body parts?. What is An Insect? . Insects are invertebrates (they do not have a backbone or internal skeleton. Instead, they have a hard exoskeleton on the outside of the body.). Insects . h. ave three distinct body parts:. How to set up your insect box:. Organize your insects in an “insect collection box” according to the order in which they belong. . (. It . is easiest to pin your insects on a piece of covered Styrofoam and then place the Styrofoam into . Floral Careers Plant Propagation. Major Insect Pests . in the Greenhouse. Aphids. Thrips. Whiteflies. Mealybugs. Spider Mites. Aphids. Immature & Adult Greenhouse . Thrips. Greenhouse Whiteflies. Pests, Plagues & Politics. Lecture 2. The . “. bug suspension system. ”. Gary Larson. ’. s finest effort!!!. “. Nik! The fireflies . across the street - . I think they. ’. re . mooning us!. By Ben . Wellstood. What are Insects . Insects. (from . Latin. . insectum. , a . calque. of . Greek. . ἔντομον. [. éntomon. ], "cut into sections") are a . class. of . invertebrates. Relevant i. n . food hygiene. An overview. General Characteristics. Most specious-rich class in the animal kingdom. 1 Mio. insects described (realistic: between 1 Mio. and 80 Mio.). Central Europe: 40,000 insect species. What is An Insect? . Insects are invertebrates (they do not have a backbone or internal skeleton. Instead, they have a hard exoskeleton on the outside of the body.). Insects . h. ave three distinct body parts:. Life Cycle. Are insects good or bad?. Pests. Beneficial Insects. Pollinators. Pollinators. Not just honey bees! . Natural enemies. Pest. Natural enemy. Lacewings. Parasitoids. Lesson 1 – Insect Classification and Taxonomy. Lesson 2 – Insect Life Cycles. Lesson 3. . – Insects: Knowing Their Roles. Lesson 4 – . Insects: What’s in Their Mouths. Lesson 5 – . Insect Adaptations . OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM. Nataša Dolenc Orbanić, . Ph. .D.. Petra Furlan. University. . of. Primorska, . Faculty. . of. . Education. . Koper, . Slovenia. LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM. An . outdoor classroom . Insects are considered to be the most successful arthropods and the largest group of animals, with over 800,000 identified species.. New insect species are being identified at a rate of about 5,000 species per year and their predicted total number ranges between 1 and 10 million (Morgan, 2010). .