PAPER INSECT | Malayalam
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 23/10/2015

Have you ever tried to catch a fly? It is hard because flies have an extremely sharp vision and a quick response. We will try and make a paper insect. What you need a card paper, scissors and a pencil. First print the picture of the insect available from the link below, on a card sheet. Fold along the dashed lines and cut along the solid lines. Insects are the most diverse group of animals on our planet with about 10 million different species. 90% of all animal life on earth is constituted by insects. 

What you have cut now are the wings. The complex mechanism involving the wing joints and muscles lead to flight. After cutting the two pairs of wings you can cut the antennae. The antennae’s are thin and will require skill to cut. Like all insects this cockroach has three pairs of jointed legs and compound eyes. It is interesting that insects breathe not through their mouths but through their neck which we are cutting now. That’s why insects can stay alive for a while even without their head. Finally we will fold the legs. These insects are also called arthropods. Their bodies have three distinct parts – the head, the thorax and the abdomen.
Draw the eyes of your insect. Insects have compound eyes which contains thousands of eye units. Hence they can see clearly and are very fast in their reactions. 
Not all insects are harmful. Did you know bees that are insects and help to pollinate 70% of our food plants? They help in our food chain?
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This work is supported by IUCAA(www.iucaa.ernet.in) and TATA Trust (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org