ENT378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Instar, Thermoregulation, Hemoglobin
17 Jan 2017
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Parasitoids: always kill their host (not called parasites because parasites they don"t kill their host) Insects carry most viral diseases (of plants) to humans, some of these disease would be no longer existent if it wasn"t for insects ability to carry them. Zika virus has changed over the years so there is no way of predicting what it is capable of. Invertebrates meaning they have no inner skeleton but do have an exoskeleton. Able to swim if in fresh water or the ocean. Parts of the segments became specialized which later became the: Head: specialized for feeding, associated with this are the mouth parts as well as eyes, antennae, and other ancillary structures with the mouth. Responsible for presence of the segmented legs and wings. Most insects with wings have two of them, at the thoracic segments. The wings modi ed to create halteres: doesn"t have the appearance of a wing.
