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insect

insect, a six legged invertebrate

class, taxon, species, Class

Scientific Name: "Insecta"
Class: taxon, species, Class, Hexapoda
Examples: ▶
Cuterebrosis, Mansonia mosquito species, Haemagogus mosquito, Anopheles mosquito species, Aedes mosquito, …
Riverine tsetse, Glossina morsitans, Culex mosquito
Parent Class: ▶
animal, arthropod, eukaryote, invertebrate, object, …
Eumetazoa, Bilateria, Neomura, Mandible, physical object, Ecdysozoa, natural object, object with a mass, object with a height, visible object, object classified by physical property, individual object, object with a length or height, object with a geographical location, organism, entity that is capable of deliberate action, intelligence possessing entity, animal or plant, biological thing, non-human animal, Hexapoda
Types: ▶
bedbug, butterfly, mosquito, scorpion, Ant, …
cockroach, bee, dragonfly, wasp, Flea, Silverfish, Firefly, cicada, hornet, beetle, termite, grasshopper, honey bee, bumblebee, earwig, yellowjacket, locust, aphid, cricket, crane fly, fly, Drosophila melanogaster, Asian giant hornet, Coccinellidae, weevil, Africanized bee, fire ant, lepidopteran, Spanish fly, cochineal, American cockroach, dung beetle, mayfly, mantis, tarantula hawk, fruit fly, Japanese beetle, Mealworm, tsetse fly, hymenopter, housefly, bald-faced hornet, head louse, cat flea, gypsy moth, Hemiptera, Jerusalem cricket, antlion, boll weevil, Paraponera, carpenter bee, mud dauber, Shield bug, black fly, Horse-fly, louse, damselfly, weta, Cicada killer wasp, Madagascar hissing cockroach, Phasmatodea, botfly, Rhinoceros beetle, Actias luna, lovebug, red imported fire ant, Anopheles, Aedes aegypti, thrips, German cockroach, midge, nymph, Western honey bee, stag beetle, European hornet, Scale insect, Phyllophaga, cockchafer, Morpho, lac, peppered moth, bombardier beetle, Orthoptera, Scarabaeidae, odonate, Death's-head Hawkmoth, mealybug, Meganeura, Reduviidae, tent caterpillar, Imago, carpenter ant, oriental cockroach, human flea, Common wasp, Mutillidae, Hoverfly, body louse, Pharaoh ant, Drosophilidae, Forficula auricularia, phylloxera, Vespula, yellow jacket, leafcutter ant, Blow-fly, Asian tiger mosquito, Ceratopogonidae, Macroglossum stellatarum, yellow crazy ant, Magicicada, mountain pine beetle, Asian long-horned beetle, Hercules beetle, swallowtail butterfly, Chironomidae, Pest, Cydia, Monarch, Parasitic wasp, Megalopyge opercularis, whitefly, witchetty grub, Red harvester ant, Stingless bee, Spider wasp, Heteroptera, Death watch beetle, Aedes, Culex, Tephritidae, meat ant, leafhopper, emerald ash borer, Colorado potato beetle, Sawfly, dobsonfly, Mormon cricket, Trichoptera, German wasp, Dorylus, wheel bug, Asian cockroach, Painted Lady, Attacus atlas, Ichneumon wasp, hemolymph, Dermestidae, Giant burrowing cockroach, Antheraea polyphemus, desert locust, bark beetle, Tettigoniidae, gall wasp, Goliathus, Argentine ant, dog flea, ground beetle, Tiger beetle, Vespidae, Ichneumonidae, Arctiidae, chigoe flea, Mycocepurus smithii, Asian lady beetle, Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Water boatman, Fig wasp, potter wasp, jack jumper ant, Bombyx mori, Darkling beetle, Black Swallowtail, deer fly, Triatominae, Apocrita, giant weta, Black carpenter ant, Black garden ant, Formica, Indian meal moth, Longhorn beetle, Mason bee, Pyrrharctia isabella, Birdwing, Chinese mantis, Lycaenidae, rat flea, sugar ant, digger wasp, common furniture beetle, eastern tent caterpillar, Toxorhynchites, Chrysiridia rhipheus, Opodiphthera eucalypti
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect
Phobia: Entomophobia
Experts: Thomas Muffet
Kingdom: animal
Phylum: arthropod
Related Object: Sarsoureh, Sarsour
Wordnet Synset ID: "102159955"
Predator: snake, frog, Rat
Related Websites: ▶
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Insect, http://edna.palass-hosting.org, http://bugguide.net/node/view/222292, http://bugguide.net/node/view/52/tree, http://www.spc.int/pps/SAFRINET/inse-scr.pdf, …
http://bugguide.net/node/view/52/tree/all, http://www.mytinygarden.com, http://www.insectlifeforms.com/Classes529/INSECTS_INSECTA_605020_529.aspx, http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/ufbir, http://tolweb.org/Insecta/8205, http://www.insectimages.org, http://www.floridanaturepictures.com/insects/insects.html, http://www.cirrusimage.com, http://www.me.esalq.usp.br/index_i.php, http://www.livescience.com/insects, http://bugguide.net, http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sSk_ev1eZec, http://vector.ifas.ufl.edu, http://woodypest.ifas.ufl.edu, http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu, http://www.earthlife.net/insects/anatomy.html, http://www.antiquebooks.net/readpage.html#insects, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4808342.stm, http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/d217322c-e20e-4870-84c4-ec8839e4ee02.aspx, http://www.insects.org/index.html, http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/docs.htm?docid=10919, http://www.insectstore.com, http://www.ndsu.edu/entomology/topics/culture.htm, http://www.food-insects.com, http://www.insectclopedia.com, http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/09/rfull/locomotion.html, http://www.life.uiuc.edu/delcomyn/RSInsectWalking.html, http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu, http://fossilinsects.net/index.htm, http://www.ub.es/dpep/meganeura/meganeura.htm, http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/insects, http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/4015/morpology, http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Insecta&contgroup=Hexapoda
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001eb20"
OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rvVi495wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Insect
Mesh ID: "D007313"
Diseases DB id: "31740"
Aliases: "insect"
Rare Terms: "entomofauna", "insect viruses", "insect hormones", "insect life cycle", "bug insect"
Dbpedia Class Url: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Insect
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/03vt0"
Distinct From: spider, Crustacean, arachnid, mollusc, Myriapoda

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Tell me what you know about Insects (from Latin ', a calque of Greek ['], “cut into sections”), the class within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae.

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