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What are
insects?
- animals that belong to the
class known as Insecta.
- their body is divided into 3
sections: head, thorax and abdomen
- 6 legs
- usually have wings
Closest
relatives
- Centipedes and millipedes
How many
diffezront species are there?
- There are more than five
million diffezront species
Skeleton
- Insects have
an external skeleton that does not grow. The insect must shed
the skeleton in order to get larger.
Life cycle
At birth the
nymphs look
similar to adults
- a nymph hatches from an egg
and begins to feed
- as it grows it sheds it
external skeleton in order to grow larger
- it emerges as a adult after
it sheds it skeleton for the last time
At birth the
larvae look
dissimilar to adults.
- Larva or a caterpillar hatch
from an egg and begins to feed
- when the larva sheds its skin
for the last time it becomes a pupa, often inside a cocoon it
has made
- inside the cocoon the body of
the larva evolves into an adult insect
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