Our website is made of major insect orders. Insect orders are groups that insects belong to. We made this website of insect orders to inform people of what type of insects belong in what orders. We put information on 27 of the major insect orders.Welcome to the Entomology homepage! Insects fill many important niches in our ecosystem and so have many interactions with humans and other life, making entomology an important specialty within biology.
Entomology is often widened to include the other arthropod groups such as the arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, and slugs.

Taxonomic Specialization
Insects (Class Insecta) is the largest group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on Earth. So far 925,000 different species have been categorized but expect that species number to be from 2 to 30 million species. Often insects such as social insects like ants or bees are studied exclusively so entomology can be further broken into seperate studies.

Insect Orders
Protura: proturan
Collembolan: springtails
Diplura: Diplurans/2 tails
Microcoryphia: jumping bristle tail
Thysanura: silverfish, bristletail
Ephemeropera: mayflies
Odonata: dragonfly or damselflies
Orhtoptera: grasshoppers, crickets, katydids
Phasmatodea: walking sticks, phantom insects
Dermaptera: ear wig, skin wig
Phthriptera: lice
Plecoptera: stonefly
Embiidina: web spinners
Isoptera: termites
Mantodea: mantids, preying mantids
Blattodea: cockroach
Hemiptera: true bugs, cicada, hoppers, Aphids, scale insects, half wig.
Thsanoptera: thrips
Psocoptera: bark lice
Coleoptera: beetles
Neureptera: antlions
Hymenoptera: bees, ants, wasps
Trichoptera: caddis flies
Lepidoptera: butterflies, moths
Siphonoptera: fleas
Mecoptera: scorpion flies, hanging flies
Diptera: true flies