Comprehension Check 2.3

ladybird beetles (ladybugs) June bugs Colorado potato beetles fireflies stag beetles

Name three insects that belong to the order Coleoptera ("sheath wings").

flies, gnats, mosquitoes

Name three insects that belong to the order Diptera ("two wings").

bedbugs, squash bugs, stinkbugs, water striders

Name three insects that belong to the order Hemiptera ("half wings").

aphids, treehoppers, leaf hoppers, cicadas, scale insects, lac insect

Name three insects that belong to the order Homoptera ("same wings").

bees, ants, wasps

Name three insects that belong to the order Hymenoptera ("membrane wings").

crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, cockroaches

Name three insects that belong to the order Orthoptera ("straight wings").

butterflies, moths

Name two insects that belong to the order Lepidoptera ("scale wings").

dragonflies, damselflies

Name two insects that belong to the order Odonata ("toothed").

entomologist

What do we call a scientist who studies insects?

nocturnal

What term describes an animal that is active at night?