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Scientific name for flies and mosquitoes.
A young version of bug that looks very
similar to its adult form.
Name scientists use for butterflies and
moths.
A naming system that organizes living
things by characteristics or features.
True bugs have an incomplete form of this
common insect life-cycle.
A person who studies insects.
Visible lines that run through insect wings.
A hard shell found on the outside of bugs
that is made of chitin and is used for
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Foot joints.
Favorite food of most true bugs.
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One of the groups in the taxonomic order category
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A mouth part that insects use to collect food.
Mouth part of true bugs are _______ in order to
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Taxonomy category used to identify the differences
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Taxonomy category where differences between
spiders and insects identified.
People who study the origin of words.
One of the groups in the taxonomic order category
that describes bugs like ants and bees.
Type of body that insects have.
A common name non-scientists use to describe
insects and spiders.
Hard mouthpart of birds and insects.
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