CLASS INSECTA

Group 2Eileen B. AycardoAbegail Vergara

Peter Glenn LelisCrisanta Oane

Charmaine BongonJoy Branuelo

Estefanie AsicateAnnie Pearl Moriones

ORDER LEPIDOPTERA

BUTTERFLIES

Gaudy diurnal insects with sealed wings that are large in proportion to body, antennae knobbed out never hooked at tip, and close together at base. Often held together above body.

Butterflies and moths belong to the Order Lepidoptera.It comes from the Greek word Lepidos which means ‘scales’ and ptera meaning ‘wings’There are more types of butterflies and moths than there are of any other type of insects except beetles.It is estimated that there are about 150,000 different species of these order. 28,000 of these are butterflies and the rest are moths.

ANATOMY

Like all insects, they have :six (6) jointed legs, 3 body parts (the head, the thorax and the abdomen)A pair of antennaeCompound eyesAnd exoskeleton

The butterfly’s body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.The four (4) wings and the six (6) legs are attached to the thorax which also contains the muscles that make the legs and wings move.

FEEDING BEHAVIORCaterpillars spend most of their time eating leaves using strong mandibles (jaws). A caterpillar’s first meal however, is its own eggshell.A few caterpillars are meat – eaters.The larva of the carnivorous harvester butterfly eats wholly aphids.

Butterflies and moths can only sip liquid food using a tube – like proboscis, a long flexible ‘tongue’This proboscis uncoils to sip food, and coils up again into a spiral when not in use.Most butterflies live on nectar of flowers.

HABITATButterflies are found all over the world and in all types of environments: hot and cold; dry and moist at sea level and high in the mountains.Most butterflies are found in tropical rainforests.Most migrate in order to avoid adverse environmental conditions.

Common Name:

Grey PansyScientific Name:

Precis atlites

ORDER ODONATA

At rest, damselflies hold their wings together above the body is diverging, dragonflies hold them horizontally.Dragonflies are also called darner, devils' arrow, and devil’s darning needle.

DRAGONFLIES & DAMSELFLIES

ANATOMYDragonflies have long, thin and generally colorful bodies, large eyes and two pairs of transparent wings.

As with other species of insects, the dragonfly also has six legs but it is unable to walk on solid ground.

In flight, the adult dragonfly can propel itself in six directions - upward, downward, forward, and side-to-side.

FEEDING BEHAVIORDragonflies are major predators that eat mosquitoes and other small insects like flies, bees, ants, wasps and very rarely butterflies.As a larva, it eats tadpoles or small fish.Dragonflies are carnivorous in both larval and adult stages.

HABITAT

Dragonflies are most often found near water and usually remain within a few miles of the place where the eggs are hatched.Female dragonflies deposit their eggs insert them into aquatic plant or mosses.

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