Bug Anatomy By Avery
This week at Adventure Club we learned all about bugs. We learned about the bug anatomy. What I think is cool is that some bugs have compound eyes. A compound eye has plenty of lenses instead of just one. So if a bug looked at a leaf it would see plenty of leaves. Also their thorax is their main body and so is the abdomen. Their abdomen is mainly their stomach. Their thorax is where almost all of the muscles are. Another thing that I thought was cool was that beetles and roaches have a wing case. People might think that they don't have wings, but they really do! A wing case holds back their wings. All bugs have wings, some have four and others have two. I didn't know that butterflies had four wings, I thought they just had two simple wings. But I do know that flies and bumblebees have only two wings. One interesting thing about wings is that they don't have muscles in them. All of the muscles that helps them fly and crawl are in their thorax. They have no muscles anywhere else. Also I think that how bugs eat is cool. Butterflies have a cool way of sucking up nectar. They have a straw like thing that helps them suck up the nectar. A house fly eats leftover food scraps. How they eat is they have a sponge like mouth. It picks up food and water with the end of it's mouth then it spits it back up and then swallows it again. Mosquitoes suck up blood with these skinny and sharp things on the end of their mouth. A damselfly eats mosquitoes by using it's jaws. A leafcutter ant cuts up leaves and then lets mold grow over the leaves. Then it eats the mold. I love learning about bugs!
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