INSECTS

A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.
• informal any small invertebrate animal, esp. one with several pairs of legs.

Insects are usually placed in the class Insecta ( see also Hexapoda ). The body of a typical adult insect is divided into head, thorax (bearing the legs and wings), and abdomen. The class includes many familiar forms, such as flies, bees, wasps, moths, beetles, grasshoppers, and cockroaches. Insects are the most numerous animals in both numbers of individuals and of different kinds, with more than a million species in all habitats except the sea, and they are of enormous economic importance as pests and carriers of disease, and also as pollinators.

Hexapoda:

A class of six-legged arthropods that comprises the insects. The name is used as another term for Insecta, esp. when the primitive apterygotes are not considered to be true insects.

Some Words Relating To Insects:

Insectarium- a place where insects are kept, exhibited, and studied.

insecticide- a substance used for killing insects.

insectile- resembling or reminiscent of an insect or insects

Insectivora- an order of mammals that comprises the shrews, moles, hedgehogs, tenrecs, moonrats, and solenodons. They are distinguished by mainly terrestrial habits and an insectivorous diet.

insectivore- an insectivorous animal or plant.

insectivorous- (of an animal) feeding on insects, worms, and other invertebrates.

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