| A | B |
|---|
| Mantodae | Special order for praying mantises |
| cannibalism | When a species feeds off of others in the same species |
| Odonata | Order for dragonflies and damselflies which means "tooth" |
| Naiads | the name for a nymph from incomplete metamorphosis |
| Orthoptera | Order for crickets, grasshoppers and katydids meaning "straight wings" |
| tegmina | the straight, non-flight wings of Orthoptera insects |
| stridulation | The insect sound made by rubbing one body part against another. |
| tympana | The round, thin membrane used for sensing sound in crickets, katydids and grasshoppers. |
| omnivores | The eating of both plants and animals |
| herbivores | The eating of only plants |
| carnivores | The eating of only animals (insects) |
| tobacco juice | A stinking juice used as defence by Orthoptera insects |
| Homoptera | The order for aphids and cicadas |
| Plant lice | Name given to pesty aphids that slowly destroy or harm plants |
| Periodical cicadas | Cicadas that emerge from the ground only every 13 or 17 years. |
