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The taxonomic name refers to their \"toothed\" jaws. These insects are often used as indicators of water quality.<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff6030028dc7.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":510,"height":340}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Ephemeroptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff5e9c867bd8.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":858,"height":1200},"tip":"

These insects have no mouthparts and only live for 1 day!<\/p>\n"},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

The ladder-like veination and flat-folding wings helps to ID this insect order.<\/p>\n","answer":"Plecoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff62c67b0054.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":600,"height":400}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

These social insects eat each others' poop to acquire symiotic microorganisms for cellulose digestion.<\/p>\n","answer":"Isoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff7378a84729.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":1200,"height":630}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Many of these insects are introduced and unwelcome home inhabitants, but native species prefer being outside in rotting wood.<\/p>\n","answer":"Blattodea","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff635d0bf2bb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":766,"height":516}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

With praying, elongated raptorial forelegs...these insects can also be considered prey<\/strong>-ing beneficial insects because of their voracious eating habits.<\/p>\n","answer":"Mantodea","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff7404481bd0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":1380,"height":1248}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Eats everything from caterpillars to cauliflower. Common garden pest.<\/p>\n","answer":"Dermaptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff7445d97914.png","mime":"image\/png","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":1920,"height":1544}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

These insects are expert camouflagers using colour and movement to hide and hunt among sticks.<\/p>\n","answer":"Phasmatodea","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff74c4160e6d.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","author":"By Andrew C","title":"By Andrew C - Northern Walkingstick (Diapheromera femorata), CC BY 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=44338047"},"width":1920,"height":1280}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Orthoptera","tip":"

Short-horned and long-horned, these all make great sounds<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff7526204d49.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","author":"Ryan Hodnett","source":"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Short-horned_Grasshopper_(Acrididae)_-_Algonquin_Provincial_Park_2019-09-20.jpg"},"width":1812,"height":1019}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

This order is characterized by X-shaped wings folded flat over the body and piercing\/sucking mouthparts.<\/p>\n","answer":"Hemiptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff7731ea253c.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":2552,"height":1435}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Often found in groups on tree bark, these are nature's tiny recyclers!<\/p>\n","answer":"Psocoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff77279f0d31.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","source":"https:\/\/www.projectnoah.org\/spottings\/12389819\/fullscreen","author":"Sergio Monteto"},"width":1200,"height":857}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Phthiraptera","tip":"

Does it make you itchy?<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff77c747320c.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":493,"height":335}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Thysanoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff77fadcfa06.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":512,"height":768},"tip":"

Torpedo-shaped bodies and fringed wings<\/p>\n"},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Strepsiptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-6001da78ae4fc.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","author":"Hanson Ewertz","source":"https:\/\/www.pinterest.de\/pin\/508343876690463733\/"},"width":320,"height":320},"tip":"

These parasitic insects have twisted, ruffled wings and branched, antler-like antenna.<\/p>\n"},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Hardened forewings called elytra sheath and protect these insects.<\/p>\n","answer":"Coleoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff610a1ba95d.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":1200,"height":1200}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Megaloptera","tip":"

This insect's order name refers to its wings, but could just as easily refer to its larval or adult mandibles!<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8c1673de34.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":271,"height":250}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Neuroptera","tip":"

This insect's order name refers to its heavily nerved or veined wings.<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8c19567aea.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":900,"height":500}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Mecoptera","tip":"

These are first-on-scene type insects, used in forensic entomology!<\/p>\n","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8c237152e0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":700,"height":500}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Feeling itchy? Don't scratch in any bacteria from these bugs...<\/p>\n","answer":"Siphonaptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8c27440eda.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":1000,"height":844}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Coiled proboscis for sucking up nectar...<\/p>\n","answer":"Lepidoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8cc0905445.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":570,"height":330}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Many of these hairy winged adult insects are excellent multi-media artists in their youth, pulling together material from their aquatic homes for cases as larvae.<\/p>\n","answer":"Trichoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ffccb0937640.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","author":"iStockphoto\/Thinkstock","source":"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/caddisfly"},"width":700,"height":419}},{"tip":"

This order of insects is extremely varied. This is just one example, common around households<\/p>\n","text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","answer":"Diptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ff8c7da3c968.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":2877,"height":2437}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

This varied order is mostly identified by their constricted waists.<\/p>\n","answer":"Hymenoptera","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ffccbc37f36a.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":153,"height":187}},{"text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","tip":"

Also known as snow fleas...these little wingless insects are nothing to fear!<\/p>\n","answer":"Collembola","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ffcccac88d46.png","mime":"image\/png","copyright":{"license":"U","author":"The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol."},"width":540,"height":389}},{"answer":"Diplura","text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ffccd0bc53ae.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U","source":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diplura"},"width":440,"height":294},"tip":"

Wingless and eyeless insects with two antennae and two cerci. Found in soil.<\/p>\n"},{"answer":"Zygentoma","text":"What is this insect's taxonomic order?","image":{"path":"images\/image-5ffccd5f118d2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","copyright":{"license":"U"},"width":2000,"height":1435},"tip":"

Commonly found in household locations as well as in soil.<\/p>\n"}],"progressText":"Card @card of @total","next":"Next","previous":"Previous","checkAnswerText":"Check","showSolutionsRequiresInput":true,"defaultAnswerText":"Your answer","correctAnswerText":"Correct","incorrectAnswerText":"Incorrect","showSolutionText":"Correct answer","results":"Results","ofCorrect":"@score of @total correct","showResults":"Show results","answerShortText":"A:","retry":"Retry","caseSensitive":false,"cardAnnouncement":"Incorrect answer. Correct answer was @answer","pageAnnouncement":"Page @current of @total","description":"Learn the taxonomic orders of insects"}

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