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The coloring book introduces young readers to insects through short, age-leveled text on insect anatomy, key body regions, and essential life-cycle concepts. It also supports classroom discussion with teaching ideas and guidance on observing habitats, behaviors, and food relationships.","Bugs in our Backyard  \nColoring Book  \n| Illustrated by\u003Cbr>Rowan Graham Angelini, with Serena Graham Text by Dave Angelini |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| [bugsinourbackyard.org](bugsinourbackyard.org) | |\n\nBiology in our own backyard  \nBugs In Our Backyard is an educational outreach and collaborative research program, providing project-based learning opportunities for K-12 students– or anyone! Students of any age can become citizen-scientists by surveying the diversity of local insects and plants.  \nThis coloring book is designed to introduce younger children to insects. We encourage teachers to present insects as interesting and beautiful animals, not creatures to be feared. The next pages provide some information on insects for teachers. Each coloring book page has some text for beginning readers. At the bottom of each page is more detail for older students and teachers interested in sharing some facts with their students.  \nTeaching ideas  \n-Look for insects in a park, garden or by using an Internet search. Then ask students to color patterns they saw in person.  \n-Encourage students to draw the surroundings on each page. Where does each insect live? What does it eat? What might eat it?  \n-Talk about animal behaviors or natural history, and ask students to cartoon those ideas. The example here shows the conflict between ladybugs, which eat aphids, and the ants who protect them.  \n-For more ideas visit Bugs in our Backyard on-line  \n[bugsinourbackyard.org](bugsinourbackyard.org)  \nWhat is an insect?  \nInsects are the most common animals most people will encounter. They are critically important to the ecosystem. Insect are arthropods, animals with a rigid external skeleton, and a body with repeating segments. Some of these body segments have jointed appendages that serve many different functions, including detecting chemicals (smell), sound (hearing) and movement. Other appendages help in feeding (mouthparts), walking (legs), and flight (wings) .  \nHead  \nThorax  \nAbdomen  \nantennae  \nmouthparts  \n| dorsal anterior  posterior\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>ventral\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr> hindwings |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | | | | \u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>ovipositor |\n| Image credit: Wikipedian Prolific, CC BY-SA 3.0, modified for use in this publication |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nlegs  \nThe bodies of all insects have three distinct body regions: a head, thorax and abdomen. The head has eyes and antennae for sensing the world and mouthparts for eating. The thorax has appendages used for moving around, such as legs and wings. Most adult insects have two pairs of wings. The abdomen contains most of the insect’s organs. The abdomen often has no appendages, but there may be sensory cerci at the posterior. In some species, females have an appendage on the abdomen for laying eggs, called an ovipositor. Males of some species have claspers used to hang on to females during mating. In many insect groups, the wings fold back to cover the abdomen when the insect isn’t flying.  \n[bugsinourbackyard.org](bugsinourbackyard.org)  \nInsect life cycles  \nSome insects have a complete metamorphosis, while others do not  \nSome insects have evolved a dramatic metamorphosis. In these holometabolous insect species, juveniles looks very different from adults. Caterpillars, grubs and maggots are juvenile butterflies, beetles and flies. They may look wormy, but they still have a distinct head, thorax and abdomen. During their metamorphosis, these insects form a resting pupa, also known as a cocoon,or chrysalis, which is often hidden or camouflaged. 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