Arthropod

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Athropod

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an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods includes insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans.

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Molting

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sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body

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Pheromones

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chemical substance that an animal or insect produces in order to attract other animals or insects and especially a mate

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Thorax

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rib cage, which encloses the heart and lungs, middle division of the body of an insect.

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Abdomen

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posterior segment of invertebrates, after the thoracic segment, where the stomach is

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Cephalothorax

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head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind

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Exoskeleton

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external skeleton that supports and protects an animal’s body

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Cheliped

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one of the pair of legs that bears the large chelae in decapod crustaceans.

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Malpighian tubes

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branching tubules extending from the alimentary canal that absorbs solutes, water, and wastes from the surrounding hemolymph

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Arachnid

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spiders, scorpions, mites, and ticks, characterized by four pairs of segmented legs and a body that is divided into two regions, the cephalothorax and the abdomen

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Spiders

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have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end

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Metamorphosis

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biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal’s body structure through cell growth and differentiation

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Crustaceans

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lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles, characteristically having a segmented body, a chitinous exoskeleton, paired jointed limbs, and two pairs of antennae

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Insects

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any small air-breathing arthropod of the class Insecta, having a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs

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Antennae

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paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods

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Scorpions

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predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, pair of grasping pedipalps and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger

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Swimmerets

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one of a number of abdominal limbs or appendages, usually adapted for swimming and for carrying eggs

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Green Glands

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excretory function found near the base of antennae secretes

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Woodtick

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Ticks are small arachnids, part of the order Parasitiformes

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Grasshopper

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Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae

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Butterfly

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antennae is clubbed with head, thorax, abdomen. monarch

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Housefly

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complete metamorphosis, Musca domestica Linnaeus

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Mosquito

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flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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Crab

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decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura

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Lobster

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clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae