Fabric Name- Bug City Beetles designed by Jodie Carleton for Ella Blue Fabrics
Material- 100% Cotton Fabric
Background Color- White
Theme- Science, Entomology
Description:
Insect lovers will enjoy this Bug City Beetles design from Ella Blue Fabrics. There are many educational facts about insects along with colorful green and orange drawings of beetles, spiders, flies, and ticks. Below are the facts listed on the design, along with explanations that I have added.
Spiders- an eight-legged arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax.
Insect- a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.
Entomology- the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
Arthropod- the phylum for insects and spiders.
Insecta- any of a class of arthropods.
Family Coccinellidae- ladybugs
Beetle- genera Scarabaeus, Canthon, Copris, or Phanaeus.
Dipteran flies- true flies
Culicidae- mosquitoes
Taxonomic rank is: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Beetles are: Domain Eukaryota, Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Arthropoda, Class Insecta, Order Coleoptera, many families including Coccinellidae, and some genera (the plural form of genus) are Scarabaeus, Canthon, Copris and Phanaeus.
I hope you learned something new today! Science is fun!
