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