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• social insect go
  an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species
  
• ephemeron, ephemeral go
  anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
  
• holometabola, metabola go
  insects that undergo complete metamorphosis
  
• defoliator go
  an insect that strips the leaves from plants
  
• pollinator go
  an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another
  
• gallfly go
  any of various insects that deposit their eggs in plants causing galls in which the larvae feed
  
• mecopteran go
  any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera
  
• collembolan, springtail go
  any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern
  
• proturan, telsontail go
  any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head
  
• beetle go
  insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
  
• web spinner go
  any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin
  
• louse, sucking louse go
  wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
  
• louse, bird louse, biting louse go
  wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting
  
• flea go
  any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
  
• dipterous insect, two-winged insects, dipteran, dipteron go
  insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
  
• leaf miner, leaf-miner go
  any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae
  
• hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter go
  insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing
  
• worker go
  sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae
  
• termite, white ant go
  whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood
  
• orthopterous insect, orthopteron, orthopteran go
  any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts
  
• phasmid, phasmid insect go
  large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants
  
• dictyopterous insect go
  cockroaches and mantids
  
• bug go
  general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
  
• bug, hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron go
  insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base
  
• heteropterous insect go
  true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips
  
• homopterous insect, homopteran go
  insects having membranous forewings and hind wings
  
• psocopterous insect go
  small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs
  
• ephemerid, ephemeropteran go
  short-lived insect
  
• stonefly, stone fly, plecopteran go
  primitive winged insect with a flattened body
  
• neuropteron, neuropteran, neuropterous insect go
  insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins
  
• odonate go
  large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings
  
• trichopterous insect, trichopteran, trichopteron go
  caddis fly
  
• thysanuran insect, thysanuron go
  primitive wingless insects: bristletail
  
• thysanopter, thysanopteron, thysanopterous insect go
  an insect of the order Thysanoptera
  
• earwig go
  any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
  
• lepidopterous insect, lepidopteron, lepidopteran go
  insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales
  
• pupa go
  an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
  
• imago go
  an adult insect produced after metamorphosis
  
• queen go
  the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites