Insects

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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Mandibles

Animals; Insects

The upper jaws of an insect. It may be sharply toothed and used for biting, as in grasshoppers and wasps, or it may be drawn out to form a slender needle as in mosquitoes. Mandibles are completely ...

Manubrium

Animals; Insects

In Collembola, the large median base of the fucula.

Maxilla

Animals; Insects

One of the two components of the insect mouth-parts lying just behind the jaws. They assist with the detection and manipulation of food and are often drawn out into tubular structures for sucking up ...

Gall

Animals; Insects

An abnormal growth of plant tissue caused by the presence of an insect or other foreign organism.

Genitalia

Animals; Insects

The copulatory organs of insects and other animals. The shape and arrangement of the genitalia are often used to distinguish closely related and otherwise very similar species.

Gill

Animals; Insects

Breathing organ possessed by many aquatic creatures, including numerous young insects. Insect gills are usually very fine outgrowths from the body and they contain numerous air-tubes, or tracheae. ...

Glossa

Animals; Insects

The inner most pair of lobes at the tip of the labium or lower lip: usually very small, but long in honey bees and bumble bees, in which the two glossae are used to suck up nectar.