Ametaboly: An insect that upon hatching, has almost no change (metamorphasis) in appearance, except in size, to reach their adult form. They hatch as a smaller version of their adult form.
Antennae: One of a pair of slender movable segmented sensory organs on the head of insects.
Anterior: Situated before or at the front of.
Aphid: A small sap-sucking insect (and a favorite food of ladybugs).
Arthropod: Any of a phylum (Arthropoda) of invertebrate animals (as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans) that have a segmented body and jointed apendages, a usually chitinous exoskeleton molted at intervals, and a dorsal anterior brain connected to a ventral chain of ganglia.
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