Life Cycle Obtain Nutrients and Create Energy Made of Cells Movement Reproduce Excrete Respond to Changes in Environment Adapt over Time.

• Life Cycle 

• Obtain Nutrients and Create Energy • Made of Cells • Movement • Reproduce • Excrete• Respond to Changes in Environment• Adapt over Time

Description- • About 1.5 mm in length• six jointed legs• four wings (most)• 3 body sections:

head, thorax, abdomen

• Exoskeleton made of chitin- nonliving protein-carbohydrate compound secreted by arthropods

• Small, harmless, parasitic wasp- unable to sting humans• Found around world, in U.S. located in South Eastern states-

mud dauber wasp location

WOWBug Spider Human

Kingdom Animalia Animalia Animalia

Phylum Arthropoda ”jointed foot”

Arthropoda Chordata- has backbone

Class Insect Arachnid Mammalia- nurse young

Melittobia digitata

Same Phylum as: Spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, crayfish, lobster

Movement- 1. Walking

2. Hop- used to surprise predator

3. Flying- rarely, too light

Cellular Respiration SPIRACLES- used for gas exchange

Respond to Environment

2. Attracted to light and like to crawl upward

1. Play dead - used to escape predators

3. Grooming

Reproduction

95 % of population female

1. Asexual- parthenogenesis

- No male required, chemical released allows fertilization to occur

- Few eggs produced, usually develop into males that mate with other females

2. Sexual- - requires a male for fertilization, 800 eggs produced 95% female

Female vs Male

Mud Dauber Wasp

HOST: Mud Dauber Wasp Pupa

PARASITE

18-25 days total

14 days as adult- do not feed

parasite

Summarizing 8 Life Processes

1. Made of Cells-

The WOWBug is multicellular because it consists ofmany different body parts. Each part has different cells.

Reflection

1.In this unit I learned about parthenogenesis. This is a form of asexual reproduction used by a WOWBug to help prevent extinction.