1. Entomology
Original PowerPoint by
Mark Morgan
Modified by Georgia
Agriculture Education
Curriculum Office

2. What is
Entomology?
- the branch of zoology
that deals with the
study of insects

3. • On average there are more
than 750,000 species of
insects that have been
identified worldwide.

4. • There are only
approximately 10,000
species of insects that
are harmful to humans.

5. Problems
– Deadly epidemics of
the past have been
caused by diseased
organisms carried by
insects.
– Example: Bubonic
Plague epidemic that
wiped out the
population of Europe
in the 14 century was
carried by fleas that
infested rodents

6. Classification of
insects:
– Kingdom
– Phyla
– Class
– Order
– Family
– Genus
– Species

7. • The highest level is the
Kingdom
• The most specific is the
species level.
• Organisms are usually
classified by the genus
and species.
• This is called a binomial
nomenclature.

8. Six orders of
insects:
- Orthoptera- which
includes the grasshopper
and locust
– Hemiptera- which
includes the true bugs
such as leaf hoppers and
plant bugs
– Lepidoptera – moths and
butterflies
– Homoptera- aphids

9. Cont’d…
– Thysanoptera- thrips
– Coleoptera- which is
the largest group of
the insect orders this
has beetles

10. How are insects
grouped?
• by the way they feed on
plants
• by their mouth parts

11. Six Mouth Parts
– Sponging
– Rasping- sucking
– Siphoning
– Chewing-lapping
– Chewing
– Piercing- sucking

12. • Insects have no internal
skeleton and they rely on
their hard outer coating,
exoskeleton, which
protects their inner
organs and supports
their body.

13. Parts of an Insect
– Head
– Thorax
– Abdomen

14. Head
– Has a pair of
compound eye and
two sensory
appendages called
antennae

15. Thorax
– is divided into three
segments from which
are attached three
pairs of legs

16. Abdomen
– is attached to the
thorax
– which will contain
more segments

17. Life Cycles
– Incomplete
Metamorphosis
– Complete
Metamorphosis

18. Incomplete
Metamorphosis
• Eggs
• to Early nymph (no
wings)
• to late nymph (wings
developing)
• Goes to Adult

19. Complete
Metamorphosis
• Eggs to
• Larva to
• Pupa to
• Adult

20. What Is a Larva?
• It is when the young
insect has soft tubular
body and looks very
much like a worm

21. What Is the Pupa
Stage?
• The larva matures and
will pass through the
pupa stages which is
usually a relatively
dormant stage.

22. What is DDT?
– This is a chemical that
was discovered by
German name Othmar
Zeidler in 1874.
– It is a chemical used to
reduce the number of
insects in a given area.
– Example: mosquitoes in
the tropics

23. Integrated Pest
Management
• Cultural methods
• Insect diseases and
predators
• Pheromones
• Release of sterile
males
• Insect resistant
plants varieties