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Antennae |
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One of a pair of slender
movable segmented sensory organs on the head of insects. |
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Brood |
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The young (as of a bird or
insect) hatched or cared for all at one time. |
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Camouflage |
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Concealment by means of
disguise. |
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Carnivore |
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Any of an order of typically
flesh-eating animals, insects, or plants. |
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Colony |
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Distinguishable localized
population within a species. (Ex: colony of ants) |
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Chrysalis |
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A protecting covering : a
sheltered state or stage of being or growth. |
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Drones |
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The male of a bee (as the
honeybee) that has no sting and gathers no honey. One that
lives on the labors of others. |
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Gill |
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An organ (as of a fish) for
obtaining oxygen from water |
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Herbivore |
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A plant-eating animal, insect
or organism. |
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Hibernate |
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To pass the winter in a
inactive or resting state |
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Larva |
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The immature, wingless, and
often wormlike feeding form that hatches from the egg of many
insects, alters chiefly in size while passing through several
molts, and is finally transformed into a pupa or chrysalis from
which the adult emerges. |
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Larvae |
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Plural. More than one larva.
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Larval |
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The stage of a larva. |
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Nymph |
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Any of various immature
insects. |
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Pupa |
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An intermediate stage of an
insect (as a bee, moth, or beetle) that occurs between the larva
and adult, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or protective
covering, and undergoes internal changes by which larval
structures are replaced into those of the adult.
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Pupal |
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The stage of a pupa. |
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Pupate |
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The act of transformation from pupa to adult.
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Nectar |
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A sweet liquid that is
secreted by a plant and is the chief raw material of honey. |
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Swarm |
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A large number of insects
massed together and usually in motion. |
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True Bug |
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The Hemiptera order of
insects (around 67,000 different species) are often called True
Bugs. Members of this order are distinguished from all other
insects by having forewings made up of both membrane and hard
portions and a proboscis (long sucking mouth tube) that is
usually specialized to suck the juices from various parts of
plants, although some species are predatory and are adapted to
suck blood. |
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Merriam Webster |
