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Sphinx Moth eggs

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-foliage
- Hatch in 6-9 days

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sphinx moth adult

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-emerge after 2 wk cocoon
-Crepuscular: forage from dusk to dawn

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Dragonfly

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-some of the first insects to evolve 300 million yrs ago (2 ft wingspan)
- eat 30-100 mosquitos daily
-INCOMPLETE metamorphosis

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Dragonfly eggs

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-water
-internal fertilization
-1-5 weeks to hatch

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Dragonfly larva

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-longest part of life cycle: 2 yrs underwater
-several molts

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Dragonfly adult

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-larva moves to edge of water to “learn” how to breathe air
-Molts out of old shell into adult
-lives up to a year

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dagger moth

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-3 yrs
-don’t like mint plants
-can be parasitic: oak trees

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Dagger moth eggs

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-shortest stage
- 10 days to hatch
- Oak
-only 1 set of eggs per moth ever

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Dagger Moth Caterpillar

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-yellow hairs; black sharp long
-chew off leaves
-1 month

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Dagger moth pupa

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-2 months
-brown
-bury into stems, buildings to pupate
-late spring

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Dagger moth adult

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-die either laying eggs or mating
-named due to design on wings

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Cicada (Hemiptera)

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INCOMPLETE: eggs, 5 instars

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Cicada eggs

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-200-400 eggs in slits in branches

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Cicada Nymphs (egg)(4)(5th is adult)

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-suck plants
-white and resemble termites
-underground 13-17 yrs before emerging

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cicada adult

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-Don’t sting or bite

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Praying Mantis

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-largest insect family
-Males: brown
-Females: green
-INCOMPLETE metamorphosis

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Ootheca

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Praying Mantis egg capsule laid in fall –> hatch in spring

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Praying Mantis eggs

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-200 per Ootheca

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Hercules Beetle

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-Central america –> NY
-One of the largest flying insects in the world
-MALES: 7 in
-FEMALES: 2 in

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Hercules Beetle adult

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-total life span can be 2 years
-FEMALES= no horns

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House Cricket

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-introduced to US as feeder pets
-males rub front wings together to make chirps

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House Cricket Egg (both environments like holes)

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holes

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House Cricket Nymph

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  • 8-10 molts to get to adulthood
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House Cricket Adult

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-thread-like antenna; longer than body

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House Cricket Death

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cold

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Flea

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-flightless
-parasitic

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Flea Egg

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  • grain of salt
  • Shell chorion
  • 1-10 to hatch
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chorion

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flea egg shell
oval shape

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Flea Pupa

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-same size as adults
- silk cocoon

30
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Flea Adult

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  • 100 days
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Crane Fly

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-diptera

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Crane Fly larva

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  • “Leather jackets” due to tough skin
  • decomposer
  • grey-green
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Crane Fly adult

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  • 1-3 days
34
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Bald Faced Hornet

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largest nests

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Bald Faced Hornet Larva

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  • feed on proteins
36
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Bald Faced Hornet Pupa

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-silk drawn cocoon