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Tips for finding bugs
• Look on/around leaves, and flowers
• Turn over rocks, fallen leaves or fallen branches
• Look around food or plants at home
Basic parts of an insect
antennae
compound eye
mouthparts
An insect's body is divided into three areas: head, thorax, and abdomen.
Head: This is where the eyes, a pair of antennae and mouthparts
are located.
• Insects have compound eyes. This means that each eye is made up of
many smaller eyes. One compound eye may be made of up to 30,000
smaller eyes.
• Insects use their antennae to touch, smell, and taste. Some insects
can even sense sound with them!
• An insect's mouthparts allow them to chew, pierce, suck, and to
hold food. Different insects have different types of mouthparts.
For example, a mosquito has mouthparts to help it suck blood and a
grasshopper has mouthparts to help it chew.
Thorax: This is the middle section of an insect, which has the wings and legs.
• A flying insect has one or two pairs of wings.
• An insect has three pairs of legs (6 legs total). A spider, which is not
an insect, has four pairs of legs (8 legs total).
Abdomen: This part of the insect contains the insect's digestive system
and stinging organs, if any.
Observing and documenting your insect
(Parents/caregivers, please help your children with this activity)
If you want to take notes on your catch, include information such as:
• Today's date
• Where you found the insect (on
a tree trunk, in the dirt, on a
flower, etc.)
• Geographic location (state,
province, city, etc.)
• Main color of the bug
head
thorax
abdoman
wings
• Secondary color of the bug
• Number of legs
• Number of wings
• Draw a rough sketch of the in-
sect (pay close attention to the
three parts of the insect that
we've talked about above)
legs
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