Insects and worms
There are not many people who would choose an insect or a worm for a friend. Well, many insects are friendly and useful to us. The lac insect, found in India, is prized by many people. It ooze a sticky liquid from which shellac is made shellac is used to make varnish which is a polish for wood.
Earth worms are wonderful diggers. But they don’t use shovels or fingers or toes. Then how do they dig? They just eat their way as they move along. They stretch out, long and thin and squeeze in, short and mix turn the mud as they dig and make tunnels. They make the soil soft tunnels. They make the soil soft and airy so that the roots of plants can breathe and grow. They are wonderful underground gardeners.
Dragonflies feed on other insets and help control the insect population. The bright, little, spotted ladybirds help farmers by eating the insects that eat the crops. Beetles keep our world clean by eating dead trees. Silkworms spin a silk thread. We use this silk to make clothes.
Without insects, it would not be to grow plants.
Butterflies and bees help the fruit to grow. They carry the yellow pollen from flower to flower, to help them make fruit and seeds. Bees also give us honey.
What lo work insects and worms do!
What should we say to them?
a) Insects are a group of animals which include files, beetles, butterflies, butterflies, bees and ants.
b) An insect does not have bones but a hard outer shell. All adult insects have six legs and their bodies are divided into three parts: the head, thorax and abdomen.
c) Spiders are not insects. They have eight legs and their bodies are divided into two parts. They belong to larger group of animals called arachnids, which arachnids which include the dreaded scorpion. Spiders make silken nets webs to catch insects for their food. Unlike many insects, spiders do not have wings.
d) In a colony of ants, termites or bees-only the queen lays eggs.
e) The praying mantis eats insets even small lizards and frogs.
f) The dragonfly is the fastest insect, lying at 36 miles per hour!
Insects bite
1) The tsetse fly transmits sleeping sickness, a disease that makes animals and humans sleepy and lazy. The disease is co0mmon in Africa.
2) The housefly helps transmit typhoid. That’s why it’s a good practice to keep al food covered so that the fly that sits in a dirty drain does not come and sit on your curry.
3) The mosquito helps transmit malaria and dengue. The female anopheles mosquito transmits malaria and the Aedes mosquito transmits dengue.
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