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Family Cicindelidae

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Tiger beetles
Large compound eyes
Pincher mandibles
Larvae build tubes in soil

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Carabidae

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Ground beetles
Elytra striated
Nocturnal predators
Pronotum more pronounced than darling beetles

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Dyticidae

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Predacious diving beetle
Aquatic
Carry air bubble under elytra

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Gyrinidae

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Whirligig beetle
“2” pr compound eyes, really just one eye split underwater and over water
Bumper cars

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Staphylinidae

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Rove beetles
Short elytra
Long sharp mandibles cross in front of head
Defensive odors

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Scarabaedae

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Scarab beetles
Scavengers or phytofagous
Dung beetles, Hercules, June, Japanese beetles

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Buprestidae

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Flat headed borers
Attack live or newly cut trees
Larvae make oval tunnels/galleries

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Elateridae

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Click beetles
Pronotal shield horns
Eyespots common
Defense: click noise and flip backwards
Bioluminescence
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Lampyridae

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Fireflies
Females wingless
Lucifern: light enzyme
Femme fatale use light to trick other male species

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Dermestadie

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Skin beetles
Feed on flowers
Larvae feed on dead plants and animals
Larvae used to clean bones

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Coccinelidae

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Lady bird beetles
Predators on aphids
Some pests
Hibernate in summer

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Tenebrionidae

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Darling beetle
Elytra fused, no wings
Predators, detrivores
Head stand and reflexive bleed

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Meloidae

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Blister beetles
Flexible elytra
Pronotum more narrow than head
Hyper metamorphosis
Eat pollen
1st instar: triungulin, jumps on bee then eats it’s eggs
Adults produce canthardin, toxin that makes blisters

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Cerambycidae

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Round headed borers
Long antennae
Larvae eat wood
Round galleries

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Chrysomelidae

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Leaf beetles
Skeletonizes leaves
Colorado potatoes, corn root worm, flea beetles

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Curculionidae

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Weevils or about beetles
Club like antennae with snout 
Eat plants
Adults play dead
Boll weevil: cotton
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Scoltyidae

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Bark beetles
Eat inner bark of trees
Aggregation pheromones: call others to tree it found
Transmit blue stain fungi

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Order Mecoptera

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Scorpion flies
Mouthparts beak like appearance, chewing mouthparts on end 
Bulbous genetalia in males
Adults eat small spiders 
Pupate in cells in soil
Nuptial gifts
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Order Siphonaptera

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Fleas
Use comb to pick into hair of mammal
Larvae feed on debris, host skin flakes or adult feces, blood
Lay eggs on host and they fall off
Bubonic (bite), pneumonic (bacteria in lungs) and septicemic (bacteria in blood) plague

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Order Diptera

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Flies
1pr wings
1pr hatlteres

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Family tipulidae

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Crane flies
Delicate
Feed on nectar
Larvae aquatic

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Culicidae

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Mosquitos 
Female has piercing mouthparts
Johnston's organ is used
All larvae aquatic wrigglers, pupae tumblers
Breathe through snorkel
Anopheles: malaria
Aedes: yellow fever
Culex: filariasis
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Chiranomidae

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Midges
Adults don’t feed
Use hemoglobin to suck up oxygen

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Simuliidae

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Black flies
Adults have humpback
Live in clean flowing water
Pupate in silk cocoon 
Females bite 
River blindness
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Tabanidae
``` Horse flies: stationary host Deer flies: moving host Iridescent eyes Females blood sucking Some species vector diseases nematode across eye ```
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Asiidae
Robber flies Head hollowed out between eyes Capture prey on their wings
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Drosaphidae
Pomace, small fruit flies Eat decaying vegetation Important in breakdown of vegetation
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Argromyzidae
Leaf miner flies Plant feeders Form leaf mines Recognizable by type of mine
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Muscidae
Teste fly: live birth, blood feeders, transmit fatal protozoan disease House fly: lay eggs in garbage, liquid feeders, can transmit food disease Stable fly: bite people and animals, larvae found in straw
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Calliphoridae
Blow flies Maggots used to remove gangrenous tissue Lay eggs in wounds Myiasis: disease from fly feeding on tissue Can determine time of death
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Sarcophagidae
Flesh flies Like blow flies but black Larvae eat animal material Some are parasites
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Tachinidae
Tachinids Parasite on other insects Bristles on abdomen Parasite on Lepidoptera, lay eggs in insect body that burrow in
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Tephritidae
Fruit flies Bands on wings Lay eggs in fruit then mark it so other females will go somewhere else
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Order Trichoptera
Caddis flies (case flies) Ancestors to moths Liquid feeders Oviposit into water Larvae abdominal gills Critical for environment, only found in clean water Net spinners, case builders, free living are predators
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Parasites vs. Parasitoids
Parasitoids kill, parasites do not
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Order Lepidoptera
Butterflies and Moths Silk glands in mouth Also skippers: mix of butterfly and moth Antennae make them different: B: clubbed, M: not clubbed, S: hooked Larvae have prolegs: fake hook legs and crochets: hook them up to cocoons Predator defense: concealment, crypsis, chemicals, hair, mimicry, disposable parts, and mutualists Fly to Mexico for winter Mate: butterflies: day fliers, m and f find mates, moths: night fliers
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Family Papillionade
Swallow tails Eye spots Osmeterium: scent gland on head for defense
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Family danaidae
Milkweed (monarch and queen butterflies) | Short range pheromones
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Family Noctuidae
Armyworms, bollworms etc. moths Long range pheromones Pests
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Family Sphingidae
Hawk and Sphinx moths Larvae have conspicuous spine (puppy tail) Pupa have pitcher shaped handle mouth
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Family saturniidae
Giant silkworm moths Stinging hairs Important for Native American food
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Order Hymenoptera
Bees, wasps, ants, sawflies Females ovipositor sting Eggs that are fertilized become females, unfertilized are males Make eggs laid first so sisters can mate when they are born
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Suborder Apocripta
Stinging bees/wasps, parasitic wasps, ants Chewing mouthparts or modified sucking Wings held together by hamuli: hooks
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Suborder Symphata
``` Saw flies Ovipositor needle or saw like Insert eggs into wood Eat plants Larvae like carts pillars but no crochets ```
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Parasitoid wasps
``` Very small Touch host with ovipositor only Attack any stage Chalcid wasps: pest control, figs Cynipid wasps: make galls on plants ```
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Sawflies
Feed on foliage
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Family Ichneumonidae
No sting Ovipositor to saw into wood for food Eat larvae of holometabs like borers
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Family sphecidae
Mud daubers, sand wasps | Hunt specific prey
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Solitary stinging wasp
Paper and wood nests | Capture food and bring back to nest
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Family pompilidae
Spider, tarantula hawks Nervous searching/ hunting behavior Dance around spiders
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Family megachilidae
Leaf cutter bees Tube nests lined with leaves Last egg laid hatched first
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Solitary stinging bees
Plumper hairs Pollen baskets Some nest parasites: take over other bugs nests, kill larvae and lay their own in the nest
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Social Hymenoptera
Pre-social: gregariousness, brood care, communal nesting, nest provisioning Eusocial: cooperative brood care, caste systems, overlapping generations
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Primitive Eusocial Wasps
Queen threatens other females and denies them food to be dominate When queen dies next meanest female takes over
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Advanced social wasps
Huge paper nests, 1000s of wasps 1 reproductive queen True divisions of labor
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Primitive Eusocial Bees
Nest in abandoned cavities | Queens rule through aggression
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Family Mutilidae
Velvet ant wasps: bright orange, powerful sting
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Advanced Social Bees
Honey bees Multiple cells in honeycomb Variety of jobs
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Ants (Hymenoptera) | Family Formicidae
Evolved from wasps Polymorphism and polyethism Caste Winged repros, sterile workers
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Family Anthrophoridae
Carpenter bees
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Army ants
Stationary phase: reproductive | Mobile phase: while colony moves to find food
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Leaf cutter ants
Chop up leaves to take back to colony | Let leaves grow fungus to eat
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Slave raider ants
Have fights between black and red Winner steals others babies and raises them as their own Dulosis
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Protector ants
Farm aphids and scales
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Carpenter ants
Infest rotting wood
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Honey pot ants
Make huge ball of nectar on abdomen to feed to others

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