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What is the basic structure and function of the parts of an insect?

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What is the basic structure and function of the parts of an insect?

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They are housed in an exoskeleton that helps protect them from drying and injury, plus provides muscle attachments for movement and leverage. This allows leaps that would equate to humans being able to jump the length of three football fields! The body is always composed of three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. The head houses neural headquarters, sight, some hearing, and mouth parts. The thorax is the locomotor center, with three pairs of segmented legs and one or two pair of wings (some wingless). The abdomen houses the digestive and reproductive tract and is the main energy storage area of fatbodies. Insects undergo metamorphosis, changing form as they develop and age. All insects start out as eggs, then molt (usually five times) as increasingly larger immatures (larvae, nymphs, naiads) into pupae (in higher forms) and finally adults. The egg and pupal stages are usually “resting” stages that can overcome adverse times of year (cold, heat, lack of food). The immature stages are th

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