We’ve all been schooled in bugs, right? Many of us have been learning about them since we were quite young. So, let’s take a little quiz: 1) Is a house fly a bug? 2) Is a ladybug actually a bug? 3) How about a stink bug?
First, I’ll define the word “bug.� True bugs are insects, all of which have six legs, a head, a thorax, and an abdomen at adulthood. True bugs have two sets of wings, with the forewing (top) pair being leathery at its base and membranous the remainder of its length. They serve as covers for the inner, entirely membranous wings. Bugs have sucking mouthparts and undergo incomplete metamorphosis. Young bugs, called nymphs, look similar to the adults but sport wing buds rather than full-length wings. There are about 38,000 species of bugs worldwide. All true bugs belong to the insect order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera.
Cindy Murray is a biologist and co-editor of Gardening Etcetera and has been a Coconino Master Gardener since 2010. She is married and has two amazing grown children and two grown grandchildren. Cindy enjoys photographing Arizona’s great outdoors, especially sunsets, birds, and insects. She is a member of Arbor Day Foundation, Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, and The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
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