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Internal Features of Insects
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Major Internal Systems of the Insect Body
Respiration
Digestion
Circulation
Excretion
INSECT INTERNAL
ANATOMY
Reproduction
Nervous System
Hormones
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Insect Respiratory System
Insect Muscles
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• Most muscles attach to the inside walls of
the exoskeleton.
• These muscles control movement:
– Mouthparts, legs and wings
– Air through the trachea
– Food through the digestive system
• Most muscle activity is controlled by the
nervous system (just as with humans).
Insects breathe through small
openings called spiracles that
are found along the thorax
and abdomen
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Air travels throughout the body through tubes called tracheae
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Insect Respiratory System
Insect Respiratory System
• Some aquatic insects breathe through gills
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• Mosquitoes larvae breathe through siphons
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Respiratory Video
Digestive System
The digestive system is a tube that is divided basically
into three sections:
Foregut
Midgut
Hindgut
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Digestive System
Foregut – mostly used for temporary storage, mixing
and grinding.
Digestive System
Midgut - where most digestion and absorption of
food occurs
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Insect Digestive System
Digestive System
Hindgut - where wastes are removed.
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Insect Digestion of Food
Insect Circulatory System
Most insects digest carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
Some insects, such as termites, have microorganisms
called “symbionts” in their gut that digest cellulose or
other materials for them to use as nutrients.
Insects have an “open” circulatory system.
– Their blood is about 90% liquid (plasma)
– Blood travels through some blood vessels, then
dumps into an open cavity.
– Insects have a dorsal blood vessel that serves as
their “heart”.
– Accessory pulsating organs help push the blood
through the legs, wings and antennae
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Circulatory Video
Dorsal Blood Vessel
Aorta
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“Heart”
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The Insect Circulatory System
The Insect Circulatory System
– With most insects, blood is not used to transport
oxygen
– Bloodworms - Hemoglobin binds and holds a
reserve supply of oxygen for times when oxygen in
water is low.
•Transports nutrients and waste products
•Transports chemicals that are important for insect
growth and development (hormones).
•Certain cells in the blood heal wounds and also
dispose of bacteria and other organisms
•Maintains or changes the pressure inside the body
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Insect Excretory
System
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Insect Excretory System
Malpighian tubules – insect
“kidneys” located at the junction
of the midgut and hindgut
Purpose - similar to our kidneys
– Remove wastes from the
blood and digestive
systems.
– Filter out water for recycling
through the body.
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Reproductive System
Reproductive System
Most insect species have two genders (sexes) - male
and female
Some insects can control the gender of their offspring.
For example - bees
– unfertilized eggs produce males (drones)
– fertilized eggs produce females
– they may produce males at certain times of the
year only
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Parthenogenesis - reproduction without mating
All offspring from one female are
genetically identical to her.
(Example – aphids and whiteflies)
Can increases the likelihood of pesticide
resistance developing.
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Nervous System
Nervous System
• Insects have a ventral nerve cord (the opposite of
mammals and other vertebrates)
Role of the nervous system:
• They have a collection of nerve cells that compose
a “brain”
• They have a pair of nerve centers in each body
segment, called ganglia
– Collect and transmit sensory information such as:
– Temperature, light, chemicals, etc.
– Control responses (movement, molting, eating,
etc.)
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How the Nervous System Works
1. Nerves control the muscles
2. A nerve impulse moves along the nerve
cell (neuron).
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How the Nervous System Works
1. Acetylcholine acts as “chemical bridge”
across the gap.
2. Acetylcholinesterase - resets the synapse
3. The impulse then travels across a gap
(synapse) between the neuron and the
muscle that it controls
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How the Nervous System Works
Hormone Production
Organophosphate pesticides (e.g, Dursban and
diazinon, Orthene) inhibit or interfere with
acetylcholinesterase and prevent the nerves from
resetting.
Result:
– nerve keeps sending signals (doesn’t reset)
– muscles keep twitching
– insect dies
Same affect on human nervous systems
HORMONE - a chemical formed in an organ or body
tissue that travels through the body and causes some
effect on another body part.
Some hormones control
– Molting
– Growth and maturation to adulthood
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INSECT GROWTH &
METAMORPHOSIS
Hormone Production
Some insecticides mimic these hormones - prevent
the insect from molting or maturing or cause it to
become an adult too quickly.
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