exploring insect life on the boston harbor islands
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Exploring Insect Life
On the Boston Harbor Islands
Insects can be HARMFULDestroy crops
Spread diseasesDamage clothing and wood
Bite or sting
Harmful insects make up only 1½ % of all insect species!
Most are HELPFULMake honey and wax
Destroy pestsPollinate crops
Recycle plant and animal waste
FACT:9 out of every 10
animals on earth is an
INSECT.
So insects make up 90%
of all animal life on our planet!
Boston Harbor Islandsnational park area
Our insects today were sampled from 12 islands
Islands feature
different ECOSYSTEMS:
An environment that supports a community of interdependent living organisms,
both plants and animals.
Herbivores
Eat live plants (leaves,
wood, stems, roots)
Scavengers
Eat dead plants and animals
Eat decayed plants or animal
wasteand break them down
into nutrients
Decomposers
Predators
Eat live animals
Pollinators
Eat pollen and/or nectar from flowers
Now it’s our turn to examine insects, following three
simple steps:
1. Identify
2. Record
3. Sort