OBJECTIVES:
From these practical, some of objectives are determined. There are:
1. To provide student with the skill in collecting insect in a proper ways.
2. To encourage student follow the flows in the museum collection such as
collection, preservation, identification and labeling.
3. To introduce world of the insect and to introduced the order of the insect to the
student.
4. To provide student to figure out the characters, habitat and the importance of
the insect.
5. To provide student to figure out the adaptation that helping success insect.
6. To provide students a good information of the insect.
INTRODUCTION
Insects is categorized in the Animalia Kingdom and the insects are belongs to the
largest phylum of the animals known as arthropod. Insects divided into the 33 orders but
only ten are most important. There are Odonata, Orthoptera, Blattara, Neutoptera,
Dictyoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Coleoptera,
Lepidoptera, Diptera
and
Hymenoptera.
Insects are invertebrates that with the three pairs of the legs. The leg consists of
the coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus and pretarsus. The legs are adapted for
different types of the movement such as jumping, running and others. The body divided
into the three regions. There are head, thorax and abdomen. Thorax is middle a body
part. Thorax has three segments which is prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax. Each
of the thoraxes has a pair of the leg and some of the insects have a wing which is
attached to the mesothorax and the metathorax. Mouthparts of the insects are modified
to make the success of the insects. Mouth is modified for sucking, chewing, bites,
sponging and siphoning. Usually has one pair of the antennae that which is used to
sense vibrations, food and pheromones in the environment. Sensory hairs, which are
sensitive to touch, cover the exoskeleton and antennae. The two pairs of the wings are
used for the moving and fly. With the ability to fly, insects can escape from the predators,
find mates, discover the n