The great outdoors aren't so great sometimes. Mosquitoes, ticks, gnats, chiggers and other insects all can intrude on our outdoor experience. Chiggers are quite active in July and August in the Ohio ...

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Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. insect, (class Insecta or Hexapoda), any member of the largest class of the phylum Arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla.

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Insects have segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons (exoskeletons). Insects are six-legged invertebrates that are members of the class Insecta within the phylum Arthropoda. They are distinguished by their three-part bodies covered by a hard, chitinous exoskeleton. All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one...

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Insects (Class Insecta) are the most diverse group within the animal kingdom, comprising a vast array of terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate organisms. More than half of all the animal species described by science are insects, and it is estimated that there are more than five million extant species. That’s a lot of beetles, butterflies, moths, ants, bees, wasps, flies, termites, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, mantids, dragonflies and earwigs, to name just some of the more familiar ones. As you may remember from elementary school, the most basic definition of an insect is an organism with three pairs of legs and three body regions: head, thorax, and abdomen.