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Insects

Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings.

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Brood
Animals; Insects

Individual insects that hatch from the same mother at approximately the same time.

Stylets
Animals; Insects

Needle-like form: applied to the various components of piercing mouthparts and also to a part of the sting of a bee or other hymenopteran.

Brood cells
Animals; Insects

The individual chambers in a hive where the egg is laid and the larva develop.

Buccula
Animals; Insects

Flanges on centre of head, on each side of the first segment of the labium in Heteroptera.

Subcosta
Animals; Insects

The second, usually unbranched, longitudinal wing vein, posterior to the costa.

Suture
Animals; Insects

A groove on the body surface which usually divides one plate or sclerite from the next: also the junction between the elytra of a beetle.

Symbiotic
Animals; Insects

The state of living together of two dissimilar organisms in a mutually beneficial relationship.

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