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Arachnids
- American House Spider
- Black Widow Spider
- Black-and-yellow Garden Spider
- Black-legged Tick
- Carolina Wolf Spider
- Daddy-long-legs
- Desert Tarantula
- Giant Hairy Scorpion
- Goldenrod Spider
- Green Lynx Spider
- Windscorpions
Beetles
- Convergent Lady Beetle
- Firefly
- Japanese Beetle
- Long-jawed Longhorn Beetle
- May Beetles
- Red Milkweed Beetle
- Rose Weevil
- Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle
- Ten-lined June Beetle
- Two-spotted Lady Beetle
Butterflies and Moths
- American Copper
- Anise Swallowtail
- Black Swallowtail
- Bumblebee Moth
- Cabbage White
- Cecropia Moth
- Clouded Sulphur
- Common Checkered-Skipper
- Eastern Tent Caterpillars
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Fiery Skipper
- Gray Hairstreak
- Gypsy Moth
- Hummingbird Moth
- Imperial Moth
- Long-tailed Skipper
- Luna Moth
- Monarch
- Mourning Cloak
- Ornate Tiger Moth
- Polyphemus Moth
- Red Admiral
- Sara Orangetip
- Silver-spotted Skipper
- Spring Azure
- Tomato Hornworm
- Viceroy
- White-lined Sphinx
- Woolly Bear Caterpillar Moth
- Zebra Swallowtail
Centipedes and Pillbugs
Cicadas, Dobsonflies, and Kin
- Dogday Harvestfly
- Eastern Dobsonfly
- Green Lacewings
- Periodical Cicadas
- Scarlet-and-green Leafhopper
True Bugs
- Assassin Bugs
- Common Water Strider
- Green Stink Bug
- Small Milkweed Bug
- Squash Bug
Flies
- American Horse Fly
- American Hover Fly
- Black Flies
- Black Horse Fly
- Blue Bottle Fly
- Common Midge
- Crane Flies
- Deer Flies
- Giant Crane Fly
- House Fly
- House Mosquito
Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Kin
- American Cockroach
- Carolina Locust
- Carolina Mantid
- Differential Grasshopper
- Field Cricket
- Fork-tailed Bush Katydid
- German Cockroach
- House Cricket
- Jerusalem Cricket
- Northern Walkingstick
- Praying Mantis
- Snowy Tree Cricket
- True Katydid
Mayflies, Dragonflies, and Damselflies
- Atlantic Bluet
- Common Green Darner
- Common Whitetail
- Eastern Forktail
- Ebony Jewelwing
- Flame Skimmer
- Mayflies
Social Insects
- American Bumblebee
- Bald-faced Hornet
- Eastern Subterranean Termite
- Honey Bee
- Little Black Ant
- Paper Wasps
- Yellow Jacket
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Hunted Facts on insects
- Insects are arthropods (a type of invertebrate, animals that lack a backbone).
- The silkworm moth is an insect (not a worm) that produces a silken cocoon.
- Wasps are insects with 2 pairs of wings and strong jaws.
- In addition, insects are of aesthetic importance—some insects, such as dragonflies, beetles, and butterflies, are widely thought to be among the most beautiful of all animals.
- Insects range in length from the feathery-winged dwarf beetle, which is barely visible to the naked eye at 0.25 mm (0.01 in), to the walkingstick of Southeast Asia, which measures up to 50 cm (20 in) with its legs stretched out.
- Insect exoskeletons are highly effective as a body framework, but they have two drawbacks: they cannot grow once they have formed, and like a suit of armor, they become too heavy to move when they reach a certain size.
- Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on the earth, with around 925,000 species described—more than all other animal groups combined: "Indeed, in no one of her works has Nature more fully displayed her exhaustless ingenuity," Pliny the Elder exclaimed.
- Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species have adapted to life in the oceans where crustaceans tend to predominate.
- Insects commonly regarded as pests include those that are parasitic (mosquitoes, lice, bedbugs), transmit diseases (mosquitos, flies), damage structures (termites), or destroy agricultural goods (locusts, weevils).
- Insects are found throughout the world except near the poles and pervade every habitat except the sea (although there is one marine species of water strider).
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