insect

Insects {insect}| (Insecta) have six legs, have up to eleven abdomen segments, have no legs on abdomen, have tracheae, and have simple or compound eyes. Insects can have a small connection between first and second abdomen segments. Insects can have diapause. Insects can form social colonies.

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Main orders are bees and wasps and ants (Hymenoptera), butterflies (Lepidoptera), and beetles (Coleoptera). Insects are the largest class, with 25 orders, and include cricket, katydid, grasshopper, walking stick or mantis, flea, firefly, ladybug, ant, honeybee, wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, bee, beetle, moth, butterfly, and termite.

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