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Good and Bad Bugs
  
bee mobby fishermansdaughter on Flickr

  • Honey bees are effective pollinators for many crops.
  • They can begin pollinating from about the fifth week of their life.  
  • A honey bee's life is only 6-8 weeks long!
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Love Bugsby jurvetson on Flickr

  • Adult ladybugs and their larvae are an excellent, non-chemical way to control aphids, Colorado potato beetles and other pests in your garden. 
  • They are among the most visible and best known beneficial predatory insects. 
  • Many crops benefit from the ladybug such as, vegetable and grain crops, legumes, strawberries, and tree crops.
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Hiding Under Momby Furryscaly on Flickr

  • Cockroaches  spread diseases like typhoid and dysentary. 
  • They can transmit bacteria. 
  • Some people, especially those with asthma, are sensitive to the allergens produced by cockroaches. 
  • People are very upset when they find cockroaches in their homes and kitchens. 
  • Cockroaches have been on the earth for 300 million years!
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Termite mound in Kakaduby ciamabue on Flickr

  • Termites cause over $250 million in damages every year by eating wood. 
  • The queen of a termite colony may lay 6,000 to 7,000 eggs per day, and may live 15-50 years. 
  • Termites are the insects with the biggest nests. 
  • The largest termite in the world is the African species, which reaches a length of 5 inches.
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House flyby YimHafiz on Flickr

  • The house fly is often a carrier of diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentary, and anthrax. 
  • The fly transmits diseases by carrying disease organisms onto food. 
  • It picks up disease organisms on its leg hairs or eats them and then regurgitates them onto food.
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Pernilongoby Alexandre Hamada Possi on Flickr

  • The most dangerous insects are mosquitoes, which pass on West Nile Virus, a parasite causing malaria, as well as the disease yellow fever and certain types of encephalitis. 
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Basic Facts: Insect Communication
Insects and people both use touch, visual signals, and sound to pass on information to others. However, insects also have many different kinds of chemical signals. Insect communication can result in such responses as alarm, attraction, grooming, exchange of food and recognition.
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TOUCH COMMUNICATION

Most touching involves the antennae and mouth parts, but not much of information is passed on by this form of communication. Ants often groom each other with their antennae and mouth parts. Honey bees do a waggle dance.  It is in the shape of the number 8 and it is used to give directions on where a new field of flowers is located.
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VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Several kinds of flies and beetles can make light. They use different codes of flashes to find and recognize  and find each other. Each species of firefly has a different kind of flash pattern. Many butterflies and flies use colors for visual communication. Some insects have ultraviolet color on their wings and other insects turn bright red or orange when they feel threatened.
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SOUND COMMUNICATION

Sounds are caused by vibrations that can pass through air, water, and solid structures. Although people can hear crickets and cicadas, many insects make supersonic sounds above a person's range of hearing. Sounds can come from the insect rubbing their legs together or from the movement of their wings.
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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION

Many insects communicate with chemicals that are secreted by the insect's glands into the environment. Two of the different types of chemicals messages are pheromones and allomones. Pheromones are chemical messages for members of the same species. Allomones are messages that are directed towards different species for defense purposes.
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