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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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Holometabolous
Animals; Insects

Having a complete metamorphosis, with larval and pupal stages in the life history.

Honeypot
Animals; Insects

The individual chambers in a hive where the honey is stored.

Hypognathous
Animals; Insects

Having a vertical head and face with the mouth-parts at the bottom.

Labrum
Animals; Insects

The 'upper lip' of the insect mouth-parts: not a true appendage, but a movable sclerite on the front of the head.

Lacinia
Animals; Insects

The inner branch of the maxilla, the outer one being the galea

Larva
Animals; Insects

A young insect that is independent of an looks very different from the adult form. Insect larva become adults through a metamorphic process.

Ligula
Animals; Insects

Name given to the lobe at the tip of the labium: usually divided into glossae and paraglossae.

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