The worksheets and activities in Insects, Science and Society: Laboratory Manual are designed to help bring students into a hands-on laboratory-style setting while maintaining a structure for entry level study. By understanding the characteristics associated with arthropods and the “Super Seven” largest insect orders as well as techniques for exploration, identification, and collection of arthropods students can make connections to the diversity of life that encompasses us every day in nearly every setting. To know something about entomology is to know something about the world around us.
Worksheets
Introduction to Arthropods and Insects
Dragonflies and Damselflies
True Bugs, Leafhoppers, Treehoppers, Planthoppers, Cicadas, Aphids, Whiteflies and Scales
Beetles
Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids
True Flies
Bees, Wasps, and Ants
Moths and Butterflies
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Scientific Method
Isopod Rodeo Lab Report
Hints, Tips, and Tricks
Population Dynamics
Activities
External Morphology
Isopod Rodeo
Insect Collection Project
Insect Collecting Techniques
Insect Identification
Simplified Dichotomous Key
Making a Dichotomous Key
Internal Dissection
Biological Control with Predators
Introduced Invasive Species Hunt
Food Web