By: Jennifer Kwak

Hi potential date :D!!!If you already don’t’ know, I am a member of the arthropod phylum. In order to attract my attention you need to either be wearing bright colors, making me a cricket sonnet, or giving off sensual odors. If you don’t put in the effort or don’t please my eyes, nose, and ears then DON”T BUG ME!!

Habitat

• Live in almost every Live in almost every terrestrial habitat and in fresh terrestrial habitat and in fresh waterwater

• Flying insects fill the airFlying insects fill the air

• Certain insects can live in the Certain insects can live in the seasea

Favorite Activities

• My ultimate activity is either eating or looking for food. The other half the time, I am trying to hide from predators. I don’t like to waste time playing unless it is to reproduce. Other insects have jobs like pollinating and finding honey for their colonies.

Geneology

• Flight: – an insect that can fly can escape many

predators, find food and mates, and disperse to new habitats faster

• Insects can fly without sacrificing any walking legs unlike birds and bats

Special Adaptations

• Have more sensory apparatus than annelids which gives us more speed and movement

• Body is segmented: head, thorax, abdomen• Metabolic wastes are removed by the Malpighian tubules• Many undergo metamorphosis

My ideal mate obviously has to be beautiful on the outside with brilliant

colors. He also needs to have excellent genes in flying skills so that my only batch

of eggs will have a better chance of survival.