Arthropod G Arthropod Groups

Add your own entry to the guide! Find a wild arthropod and use the guide to fi ll in infor- mation about it. Draw it fi rst, then describe the arthropod. Try to model your drawing after those in the book. Arthropod GroupsGroups A guide to some insects, spiders and other crcrawlies!awlies! SSubphylum______________ubphylum______________ GGrouproup name__________ Order: Common group name: (Write description here, add as much infor- maiton as you can observe about you bug!) Group discussion scenario Imagine there is a butterfl y called the superduper butterfl y that is going extinct, meaning there are very few of them left. The superduper butterfl y is usually found around farmer’s fi elds. A scientist thinks the insecticide spray used by farmers is killing the butterfl ies. He has a book that des- ribes how pesticides effect many different kinds of butterfl ies, but the superduper butterfl y is not listed in the book. How can the scientist use taxonomy to show the pesticides may be killing the butterfl ies? Buggy logic Zoe, Jo, Tim, and Ash each have a different favorite group of arthropods. Insects, spiders, crabs, and the centipedes. Jo likes creatures with 8 legs. Zoe’s favorite group can often be found living in the ocean. Tim likes a group with more legs than Jo’s favorite group. Ash’s favorite group includes moths. On a seperate piece of paper match each arthropod group to a person. Explain how you did it! By Constance Woodman, 2006, [email protected] Cover photo of Lansia Gipsen Arthropod Guide Page 2 Arthropod Guide Page 7 What is Taxonomy? SSubphylumubphylum Chelicerata Spiders In order to understand living things, we group them together based on similarities. The name for this grouping system is Tax- onomy. Closely related living things like dogs and wolves have- Order:Order: AcariAcari many similarities. They look similar, have the same needs, and Common name: MiteMite can be affected by the same things. Why do we need Taxonomy? They are very small, smaller than ticks. There Because it allows us to dicuss groups of organisms. (“Organism” are mites all over the world, and there are many,many, means living thing.) To help you understand the levels of taxono- many kinds. SomeSome mites you see will be red! my I will compare them to an address. mites have two body sections and eight legs. Susie’s Address Taxanomy of a dragon fl y SSubphylumubphylum MMyriapodayriapoda Centipedes & Millipedes Country: United States Kingdom: Animals State: Washington Phylum: Arthropods Order: Chilopoda County: Whatcom Class: Insects Common name: Centipede City: Bellingham Order: Odonata These hunters have one pair of legs on each Street: Elmwood Drive Family: Gomphidae body segment. Centipedes have poison claws Last name: Vanderschmit Genus: Austrogomphus to catch their prey. They can have many body First name: Susie Species: guerini sections. All animals are within the Animal kingdom. Only creatures like those in this guide are within phylum Ar- thropods. Only insects, arthropods with six legs, are within Class Order:Order: DiplopodaDiplopoda insects. Common name: MillipedeMillipede So with each level the groupings get more specifi c! MillipedesMillipedes eat plants and when scared may curl up into a ball. They have two pairs of legs on each body section. They can have many sec- Understanding new words tions. A prefi x is a group of letters whoe meaning changes the meaning of the word folllowing. Scientists use prefi xes from the Latin or SSubphylumubphylum CCrustacearustacea Crabs Greek language in their words. For example, “sub” means below. Order:Order: Coleoptera So a the prefi x sub in front of the word phylum means a grouping below the phylum on the taxanomic levels. A subphylum is Common name: PillPill bug / sowsow bug a way of breaking up a phylum into parts. Here are some other These animals are related to crabs and lob- prefi xes. Can you fi nd words with these prefi xes in this guide? sters. most crustaceans, meaning animals that How does the meaning of the prefi x refl ect the arthropod being are part of the subphylum Crustacea,Crustacea, live in the described? ocean. Di means 2. Hex means 6. Mil means 1,000. Cent means 100. Arthropod Guide Page 6 Arthropod Guide Page 3 SSubphylumubphylum HHexapodaexapoda Insects SSubphylumubphylum HHexapodaexapoda Insects Order: Orthoptera Order: Hymenoptera Common name: Cricket Common name: Bee Crickets rub their wings together to make Bees may live together in social groups and chirping noises, and they are active at night. help feed each other. They have breeders and They are related to grasshoppers. They have worker bees. Some people are allergic to their six legs and three body sections. stings. Bees have four wings and six legs. Order: Orthoptera Order: Hymenoptera Common name: Grasshopper Common name: Wasp Using their powerful jaws grasshoppers nibble Wasps will eat other bugs, rotting meat, fruit -- down plants. Grasshoppers have four wings, all kinds of things. Some wasps live in groups, six legs, and three body sections. some live alone. They have four wings, six legs and three body sections. SSubphylumubphylum Chelicerata Spiders Order: Araneae Order: Hymenoptera Common name: Spider Common name: Ant Spiders make webs from a silk gland in their Ants live in groups and work together to fi nd rear end (abdomen.) They spit out juice onto food and create shelter. Ant nests are divided their prey and eat the prey as it melts. Spiders into worker, breeder, and soldier ants. Ants have 8 legs, and two body sections. have six legs, and three body sections. Breeder ants have four wings. Order: Acari Order: Isoptera Common name: Tick Common name: Termite Waiting on plants a tick will drop onto an ani- Termites live in groups just like ants, but their mal as it passes by. The tick will fi nd a good bodies are very different. Termites eat dead place and bite! They live on the blood of ani- wood, are often blind, and do not have waists. mals. Ticks have 8 legs and two body sec- They have six legs, and breeders have four tions. wings. Arthropod Guide Page 4 Arthropod Guide Page 5 SSubphylumubphylum HHexapodaexapoda Insects SSubphylumubphylum HHexapodaexapoda Insects Order:Order: HemipteraHemiptera Order: Lepidoptera Common name: BugBug Common name: Butterfl y They look like beetles, but they have sucking Adult butterfl ies fl y during the day, and have and poking mouthparts. They have wings and knobs at the end of their antennae. Butterfl ies wing covers like beetles. MManyany bugs have an may eat fl ower nectar, rotting fruit, and animal “x”“x” on their backs. BBugsugs have six legs, three waste. They hae four wings, six legs, and three body sections and four wings. body sections. Order:Order: HomopteraHomoptera Order: Lepidoptera Common name: HopperHopper Common name: Moth Their bodies are designed for jumping. They Moths are usually night fl ying, called noctur- have mouthparts for drinking the juice out of nal, but they can be day active, called diurnal, plants. They have six legs, three body sections as well. Moth have fuzzy antennae. Moths and four wings. have six legs, four wings, and three body sections. Order:Order: DictyopteraDictyoptera Order: Diptera Common name: MantisMantis Common name: Fly When babies mantises look like little, uglier ver-ver- Flies have mouths for sucking up liquid food, sions of adults. SomeSome people compare them to like fl ower nectar or blood. Flies can look very space aliens! They are hunters, and they have different from the picture, so remember that wings and huge grabbing legs. They hve four they have only two wings, six legs, and three wings, six legs, and three body sections. body sections. Order:Order: Coleoptera Order: Odonata Common name: BeetleBeetle Common name: Dragon fl y There are many,many, many kinds of beetles. Bee- Dragon fl ies are hunters when young and when tles eat all kinds of things, using chewing jaws. adults. Adult dragonfl ies catch bugs out of the They can be bright colors, or look like mirrors! air and eat them. They have four wings, three They have six legs, three body sections, two body sections, and six legs. wings, and two wing covers. .

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