### animal | arthropod | insect | moth:

Peppered moth
* are eaten by birds
  - generally light in color and blend into the trunks of the trees they live on
* make a compelling case study in natural selection.

### animal | arthropod | insect | moth | pyralid moth:

Bee moth
* do damage during their larval stages, injuring combs and honey.
* pyralid moth

Corn borer
* are caterpillars
  - devastating pests in most corn-growing areas of the United States and Canada
  - pink
  - susceptible to several insecticides applied to corn foliage
  - white worms with dark heads
* complete at least two generations each summer.
* damage growing corn by hollowing out the inside of the stalk.
* enter the maize stalk and eat the plant from the inside.
* reduce yield and stalk integrity by tunneling within stalks.

Small moth
* Most small moths do damage.
* life in habitats.

Sphinx moth
* Most sphinx moths are active at night or dusk.
* are also famous for their ability to hover at flowers, much like hummingbirds
  - well-studied
  - strong fliers with a very rapid wingbeat
  - the primary pollinators of night blooming flowers

### animal | arthropod | insect | moth | tortricid moth:

Leaf roller
* Some leaf rollers feed on new growth and are especially harmful to plants.
* tortricid moth

Winter moth
* Many winter moths burrow under leaf litter in the forest.
* denizen of woodland trees, especially oak.

Native insect
* Many native insects require specific plants for survival.
* Most native insects eat plants
  - feed on milkweeds
* cause plenty of destruction.

Nocturnal insect
* Most nocturnal insects begin life.
* Some nocturnal insects make up diets.
* species diversity in a cloud forest ecoystem in Panama.

Odonate
* Many odonates wander far from water and can be found in open areas and along trails.
* appear important.
* are found on every continent except for Antarctica
  - no longer familiar for Japanese children of the present age
  - very beautiful and charismatic creatures
* hatch from the eggs as an aquatic form known as a nymph.
* is an insect

### animal | arthropod | insect | odonate:

Damselfly
* Damselflies also feed on a variety of other small insects
  - appear almost delicate because their abdomens are so long and thin
* Damselflies are are smaller than Dragonflies, but they can just as colorful
  - beneficial insects
  - carnivores
  - effective predators both as naiads and as adults
  - familiar insects found around streams
  - generally weak fliers, frequenting bankside vegetation
  - more acrobatic and they fold their wings together when resting
  - odonates
  - one of the largest and most colorful groups of native Hawaiian insects
  - slender-bodied dragonflies with relatively weak powers of flight
  - slimmer, often smaller, and usually fly more slowly than dragonflies
  - smaller and slender compared to dragonflies
  - follow much the same pattern, but spend more time perching
* Damselflies have a body made like the narrowest of twigs, whereas dragonflies have a bit of heft
  - great big eyes, tremendously powerful wings, and fancy svelte bodies
  - swim by undulating their bodies
  - usually land to mate
* Most damselflies fold their wings in an upward and backward position.
* is an odonate

Other insect
* become problems.
* feed on corn plants
  - foliage
* get nutrients.
* go through complete metamorphosis
  - incomplete metamorphosis
* have complete metamorphosis
  - mouthparts
  - sensors
* hunt prey.
* include beetles
  - mantises
  - potato beetles
  - prey mantises
* produce sound.
* seek shelter.
* spread diseases.
* visit flowers.

Parasitic insect
* Most parasitic insects are wasps or flies
  - feed on blood
* Some parasitic insects feed on insects.
* are an important regulator of sawfly populations.
* attack gypsy moth eggs and lay their own eggs in the larvae
* destroy other injurious insects by living on or in their bodies and their eggs.