Bugs Rule!: An Introduction to the World of Insects

PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi 1Introduction to the Arthropods 1 2What One Sees on the Outside--External Features of Insects 14 3The Internal Organization 39 4Growth and Metamorphosis 58 5The Arachnids--Spiders, Scorpions, Mites, and Other Eight-Legged Wonders 75 6The "Other" Arthropods 119 7Oldies but Goodies 136 8Insects Fly! 144 9Jumpers and Strollers--Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Walkingsticks 155 10Variety Is the Spice of Life--Some Minor, but Interesting, Insect Orders 171 11Roach Cities and Assassin Cousins 182 12Lousy Nitpickers 202 13Life on an All-Fluid Diet 212 14Insect Bruisers and Their Lacewinged Cousins 252 15City Builders That Rule 296 16Scale-Winged Beauties and Custom Homebuilders 339 17"Gift" Bearers of Plague--or a Plump Insect Wedding Present 377 18Marvels of the Air--Two-Winged Wonders 387 APPENDIX I: STATE INSECTS 425 APPENDIX II: LARGEST ARTHROPODS 431 APPENDIX III: SUMMARY OF FEATURES OF THE HEXAPOD ORDERS 435 GLOSSARY 459 INDEX 475