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Scientists who study insects
Entomologists
All insects have 3 pairs of
legs
Spiders have ______ legs
8
Spiders breathe by means of
book lungs
The spider that is the largest in the world is the
tarantula
Spiders have 2 distinct body regions, an abdomen and a
cephalothorax
many young spiders leave the nest by sailing away on silk strands, a practice called
ballooning
The spiders that spends its entire life underwater
water spider
A parasite that may cause mange in animals or scabies in humans
mite
an arachnid that has a long tail with poisonous, needlelike point on the end
scorpion
a useful arachnid with one body section; eight long legs, and an appetite for plant lice and other insect pests
harvestman or daddy longlegs
The tough material from which the external Skeleton is made is called
chitin
an invertebrate that has an external Skelton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages is
arthropod
Most insects undergo a transformation in appearance known as
metamorphosis
the processs in which an insect sheds its external skeleton known as
molting
_____% of all arthropods belong to the class of insects
90
