I’ll expand on that aspect toward the end of the article. First, what is an insect? An insect has six legs and three body segments: a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. You may know that spiders, mites, ...

Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...

Those singular shapes, insect anatomists explain, stem from the treehopper’s specially modified pronotum—a section of the thorax that in other insects resembles a small, shield-like plate.

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Insects have a segmented body with 3 regions: head, thorax, and abdomen. They have 6 legs and antennae. Ticks are parasites of vertebrates, or animals with backbones, like us, dogs, deer, and birds.