Insects' Effect on Plants

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  1. 4. What is a beneficial insect?
  2. 7. What is a detrimental insect?
  3. 10. What does Orthoptera mean?
  4. 12. Which insects feeding can stunt plant growth and cause damaged leaves to become papery and distorted?
  5. 13. What consists of moths and butterflies?
  6. 15. What are various species of short-horned grasshoppers?
  7. 16. What is an insect?
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  1. 1. What insects suck the sap out of plants?
  2. 2. Which insects larvae are also beneficial by preying on pests at or below the soil surface?
  3. 3. What species are the pests of crops and garden plants?
  4. 5. Which insect can be a garden pest, where they will munch on young plants or flowers, but usually their damage is minor compared to other insect species?
  5. 6. What insect pollinates the flowers, and helps reproduce the flowers by moving the pollen from the male to the female parts of the flowers?
  6. 8. What does Hemiptera mean?
  7. 9. Which pests comprise grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets?
  8. 10. What ISN’T an insect?
  9. 11. What insects provide more consistent pollination in early spring than bees, likely because they often activate at coolerPredatory beetle
  10. 14. What insects suck the juices from leaves and stems and cause discoloration?