Interesting Facts from ABCs of Animal World - Visit the site to see some amazing pictures!
Male fiddler crab has 2 uneven claws - 1 large one for fighting and a small one for eating.
Male giant water bugs are the most loving fathers - they carry 700 young on their back.
Cockroaches can survive high doses of radiation, poison, and survive 9 days without their head.
Jokes: 1. When is a baseball player like a spider?
2. Why wouldn't they let the butterfly into the dance?
3. Why did the fly never land on a computer?
4. What is an insect's favorite sport?
Interesting Sites:
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| Crayfish dissection. |
Info on Exoskeleton
Chitin What is chitin made up of?
Crayfish Dissection info Good stuff here!!
Crayfish Visual Dictionary
Crayfish Anatomy
Spiders Spiders of North-West Europe
Spider Spider Silk
Spider Construction of a wheel web
Millipedes
Insects Tracheal Breathing
Insect 'blood' Hemolymph
Insect 4 Phase Life Cycle
Insect 3 Phase Life Cycle
Anatomy & Physiology of Insects Insect Anatomy & Physiology Click on links on this website for great information and diagrams.
"Baby, You're an Arthropod!" youtube song
Smithsonian youtube video Arthropods
Youtube video Molting Horseshoe Crab
Online Arthropod Game/Quiz
Arthropod games - The first link to a 'story' is evolutionary in content but the butterfly game and interactive crossword puzzle are great.
Crayfish Worksheet #1
Crayfish Worksheet #2
Student Outline
Class Slide Presentation
2. It was a mothball.
3. He was afraid of the world wide web.
4. Cricket
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| To what class does this specimen belong? |
An inchworm is the larval stage of a variety of
species of North American Moths. Their primary
job is to eat...a lot! Female moths lay eggs under
leaves or in the crevices of trees. Eggs hatch and
the inchworm emerges. The next stage is pupa
followed by the adult stage. Interestingly, the
females are wingless and cannot fly. In some
species, only male moths have wings.
Sap beetles are easily identified by the knobs on the end of their antennae.
Crayfish dissection youtube video
Online crayfish identify anatomy quiz
Spiders belong to the Phylum Arthropoda. This
means that they have an exoskeleton which
they must molt during their lifetime in order to
grow. They also have jointed appendages, an
open circulatory system, a ventral nervous
system, and body segments. Spiders are further
classified into the Class Arachnida. Organisms
in this class possess the following traits: They
have 4 pairs of walking legs, 2 body segments
because the head and thorax are combined into
a cephalothorax, no antennae, 4 pairs of simple
eyes and book lungs for respiration. See if you
can see the silk web emerging from the spider
in the video. Be patient!
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