Aquatic Entomology Week 1-2

Aquatic insect Orders, meanings, simple or complex life cycles

Coleoptera

Beetles

Diptera

Flies

Hemiptera

True bugs

Odonata

dragonflies and damselflies

Plecoptera

Stoneflies

Trichoptera

Caddisflies

Megaloptera

Dobsonflies

Lepidoptera

butterflies and moths

Ephemeroptera

Mayflies

What does Ephemeroptera mean?

short lived wing

What does Lepidoptera mean?

scale wings

What does Megaloptera mean?

Large Winged

What does Trichoptera mean?

hair wing

What does Plecoptera mean?

folded wings

What does Odonata mean?

Toothed

What does Hemiptera mean?

half winged

What does Diptera mean?

two wings

What does Coleoptera mean

Sheath winged

What Orders are true aquatic insects?

Ephemoptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Hemiptera, Megaloptera, and Trichoptera

What orders are not true aquatic insects?

Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Coleoptera, Diptera

What Orders have simple life cycles?

Ephemoptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Hemiptera

What is the act of egg laying called?

oviposition

What is hatching called?

eclosion

What is molting called?

ecdysis