Insect Characteristics

Insects are "animal" entities lacking vertebrae, and it is the type of animal that has a very high classification and quantity.

The insect characteristics in relation to other animals such as arachnids, since they have a certain number of legs and a body developed from keratin.

These animals belong to the animalia kingdom, but they are studied by entomology, and form a sub-branch called "Insect".

Aspects and various characteristics of insects:

Sociability.- Insects, as colonies, are capable of forming a very high society in population without losing the hierarchical order. In this sense, insects work through instinct and pheromones, we can mention in this category the following insects:

• Ants
• Bees
• Wasps
• Termites, etc.,

Flight.- Flight is one of the faculties of some insects, it is produced by moving nerve entrals that transmit vibrations to wings that are formed of keratin. The flight of some insects is considered physically impossible, as is thought of bumblebees, but in general terms it is a logical and perfectly functional structure.

At.- These are found on the sides of the insect and are membranes, usually have two pairs, and are found in a very high number of insects, from fleas to bumblebees and dragonflies.

They are usually used as camouflage, as a cooler as with bees and as communication in mating season.

Exoskeleton.- This is the layer that covers the body of these insects, it is formed by small layers called:

• Basement membrane
• Hypodermis
• Cuticle

Head.- This is the part in which the eyes are concentrated, it is generally round or oval, there are the antennae, the mouth and its scissors, the eyes and its sensitive organs, the head. It does not have the entire nervous system, because in the praying mantis, due to its nature and mating method, the male loses his head and must remain alive to culminate in the copulation.

• Antennas.- These are found on the head of insects, and their function is to communicate with their companions and may have a similarity to the olfactory nose of other animals. They have the ability to move and are usually separated into three and four parts called the funiculus, pedicel and escape, with a tactile hairiness.
• Mouth.- In the mouth these animals have tweezers or scissors where they pass the crushed food or fractured, in other animals there is a conduit where they suck the liquids with the substances food.
• Eyes.- The eyes are usually compound, (several eyes or shades), many have simple eyes and others have compound eyes as happens with flies.

Chest or chest.- This is the one that contains all the organs, and in it the wings are embedded in the insects that carry them; these are inserted in two slits located on the sides of it.

The organs are located in this place, although the abdomen also contains the same number of organs.

Legs.- They are the indisensable parts for walking and are embedded in the thorax, and it is made up of five parts, finding in the last a kind of clamp or fingers that come to be used to hold on the surfaces. They have a villi that in some has a sensitive function.

Abdomen.- In the abdomen of insects are the egg-producing apparatus in females and the reproductive system of males, and in the case of insects Flying, they usually have an organ provided with poison, generally toxins and their respective stinger that they use in case of feeling attacked or feeling aggression towards their Suburb.

Reproduction.- All insects reproduce by means of eggs, but in insects that form colonies, reproduction is exclusive of the queen, which can engender entire colonies, this being the only function that she has in the lifetime.

The so-called queens are insects that, due to their diet and diverse circumstances, increase their size in very marked ways, as happens with termites and for the fertilization, a male is chosen to act as king, which in many cases only fertilizes the female on a single occasion, leaving the female as an obsolete entity for the rest of its life. lifetime.

Larvae.- This is the way the small worms that emerge from hatched eggs are called, usually these are fed by their parents, such as It happens in the colonies, but in flies and some mosquitoes, they feed on the so-called prey, which is the living entity, either plant or animal with which they are they feed.

Caterpillars.- This is a special variant of larvae, but when they hatch from the egg they usually have a very high number of legs, and a soft body, are generally herbivorous and consume the leaves of the plants and trees where the eggs are deposited, and later form a cocoon in which a so-called metamorphosis occurs and generally doves and pigeons are produced. butterflies

Centipedes and millipedes.- There is a type of insects with more than six legs, these are centipedes and millipedes, which, although they have different characteristics due to their legs, share a large part of the previous ones, so they tend to be integrated into this kingdom, although there are those who believe that it is convenient for them to separate into another segment Besides.