1. What makes an insect an insect?

2. 3 body segments

3. 6 legs, 3 on each side

4. Antennae

5. Life Cycle
Illustrated with lady beetles

6. Eggs

7. Young lady beetles

8. Lady beetle juvenile

9. Lady beetle pupa

10. Lady beetle adult

11. Are insects good or bad?

12. Pests
A thing that is in the wrong place and or too abundant and interfers with people. Aphids and caterpillars are too common pests you will see

13. Beneficial Insects
Beneficial insects are insects that do good things for people.
Pollinators, like bumble bees, pollinate flowers. Many things we eat grow because of pollinators. FRUITS WITH SEEDS?
Natural enemies, like lady beetles, eat insects we don’t want around

14. Pollinators

15. Pollinators
Pollinators, like bumble bees, pollinate flowers. Many things we eat grow because of pollinators. FRUITS WITH SEEDS?

16. Not just honey bees!

17. Natural enemies Natural enemy Pest
Natural enemies eat or kill pests. These are called natural enemies. In a chemical free environment they provide the many external defense of the plants that people want to use. This process is called biological control.

18. Lacewings
Common predator

19. Parasitoids
Parasitoid is an insect that lays it’s eggs in other insects. Then it’s babies eat the other insect from the inside out and pop out like aliens, killing their hosts. Parasitoids are very important in keeping herbivore populations down and keep plants green