by Richard Curran
Students should collect the specified number of insects for the following orders. Insects may not be duplicated, they must be pinned according to the instructions provided by your instructor.
The following are the orders with the number of each insect to be collected beside the order
3 Lepidoptera - 2 butterflies 1moth
5 Coleoptera - beetles
3 orthoptera - grasshoppers, cricket and mantids (1 of each species)
1 Homoptera - ciccada (you may know these as locusts)
2 hemiptera - true bug ( true bugs are identifiable by the x cross wings)
3 hymenoptera - bee's, wasps, and ants
2 odanata - dragonfly and damselfly
Any of the above orders maybe substituted with the appropriate number of insects in the new order or substitute order. ie diptera, plecopter etc. Insects may not be mixed. If you use another order than the ones above, then the you may not have a partial mix of the order, ie 3 coleoptera and 2 diptera.
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Use this website for information on utilizing a killing jar, how to use a spreading board and how to identify and labeling.