There are many groups in the animal world. One group of those is Arthropoda, which is made up of all the insects that are without backbones. They have a hard outer shell.
The body of an insect has three main parts:
- the head, which has the mouthparts, eyes, and a pair of antennae;
- the three-segmented thorax, which has three pairs of legs and one or two pairs of wings, and
- the many-segmented abdomen, which has the reproductive, digestive, and excretory organs.
Insects are the only animals without backbones that have wings to fly and move into new areas. Their legs have joints that can move together.
Insects are vital to the web of life in every place they live. Some of their jobs are to pollinate growing plants, provide food for animals that eat insects, and help dead plants and animals break down.
Names of insects
Here is a list of 30 names of insects.
Have a look.
- Ant
- Aphid
- Beetle
- Bed bug
- Blowfly
- Butterfly
- Caterpillar
- Cocoon
- Cockroach
- Cricket
- Dragonfly
- Firefly
- Flea
- Fly
- Glow worm
- Grasshopper
- Honeybee
- Horsefly
- Locust
- Louse
- Mosquito
- Moth
- Nit
- Pill bug
- Scorpion
- Silkworm
- Spider
- Termite
- Wasp
- Worm
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