The Amazing Study of Insects By Nikko Pasanen

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The Amazing Study of InsectsBy Nikko Pasanen
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Introduction
This slideshow will tell you the most amazing
things about insects. Just keep listening, and
youll be an insect expert at the end of the show.
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Characteristics

• An insect has 3 body parts head, thorax, and
  abdomen.
• All insects have 6 jointed legs.
• Every insect has two antennae.
• Insects have exoskeletons.

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More Characteristics

• All insects are cold-blooded
• An insects development is called metamorphosis.
• It is common for an insect to have wings.
• Insects lay eggs to have young.

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Habitats

• Insects live everywhere. Here are some
  examples
• Marshes-mosquitoes
• Forests-beetles
• Rivers and lakes-water skaters
• Meadows-dragonflies
• Tropics-butterflies

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Food

• Some things that insects eat
• Nectar and pollen from flowers
• Plants and water
• Other insects

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Enemies

• Insects have many enemies. Every animal
• group, including insects eat them. Some of the
• more common predators are birds and
• amphibians.

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Family Life

• Insect young are raised in many different
• ways. Bees and wasps create hives and have a
• nursing area in the hive . Butterflies lay their
• eggs and leave the young ones on their own.
• Insects that live underground, create a
• birthing chamber and the young are cared for
• there.

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Cool Facts

• Tiny insects such as bees and wasps can hurt a
  human by stinging them
• Some insects have great camouflage, such as leaf
  hoppers and walking sticks
• Fireflies can make a light by using chemicals in
  their body
• Grasshoppers and crickets can communicate by
  rubbing their wings together, and making noises

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Honey Bees
The Honey Bee is very well known in Vermont for
making honey and stinging people. Honey Bees
create large hives that they store their honey
in. Honey Bees pollinate flowers and are very
helpful to gardeners. They eat nectar and pollen.
I bet youve seen a Honey Bee before (and maybe
have gotten stung).
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Did you know that a Honey Bee can beat their
wings 230 times in a second!
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So now that youre an insect expert, you should
have no problem if you ever study insects.
THANK YOU!