What is the difference between an insect and a bug?
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Officially, a bug is a member of the order Hemiptera which is part of the Insects. The term is used unofficially for other creepy crawlies as well and the name bug is also used for crustaceans in Australia ie Balmain bug.\n\nThe correct version is that a bug is a type of insect.
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You may be referring to a Jerusalem cricket, more commonly known as a potato bug.  These insects aren't really crickets and don't eat potatoes, but who says names have to make sense?\n\nNext time, give us a general idea of where you live.  It'll help narrow down the possibilities of what you're looking at.
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Really-think about a roach-they are tolerant to drought, water, heat, and radiation. They are annoying and will live after a nuclear disaster. The louse-is a more fragile creature and there are different types. The worst pests survive forever no matter how many or their relatives are killed.
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There is a whole order of insects with a similar life expectancy.  It is called Ephemeroptera.  The name comes from the same root as ephemeral, meaning of short duration or fleeting.  The Ephemeroptera are commonly called mayflys.  They have a long life as larvae on the bottoms of streams and rivers.  After two or three years, they come out in the adult stage, mate, lay eggs and die.  They do not eat, serve as fish food while they try to lay their eggs and are gone.  They may live more than one day but not by much.\nI don't know of any organism that actually has a total life span of only one day.
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Bugs are a separate division in the insect class.....
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Do your own research and reading. Try sites like discoverykids.com, they have all kinds of great information on insects and animals.
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For one thing, they differ greatly in size. The biggest viruses are only as large as the tiniest bacteria. \n\nAnother difference is their structure. Bacteria are complex compared to viruses. \n\nWhich brings us to the main difference between viruses and bacteria—the way they reproduce.\n\nBacteria contain the genetic blueprint (DNA) and all the tools (ribosomes, proteins, etc.) they need to reproduce themselves. \n\nViruses are moochers. They contain only a limited genetic blueprint and they don't have the necessary building tools. They have to invade other cells and hijack their cellular machinery to reproduce. Viruses invade by attaching to a cell and injecting their genes or by being swallowed up by the cell. \n\nCheck out the site below.
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Yes the beetle is an insect.\n\nGood rule to help you identify insect in the future, \n\nIf it has 6 legs, antennae and mandibles chances are it is an insect
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Spiders are not insects. Spiders are members of a large category of animals called Arthropoda. Phylum Arthropoda includes the following groups: \n\n\nClass CRUSTACEA: Crabs, prawns, lobsters etc \nClass CHILOPODA: Centipedes \nClass DIPLOPODA: Millipedes \nClass INSECTA: Insects \nClass ARACHNIDA: Spiders and other Arachnids
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In case you mean the Latin WORD for insect, it is indeed "bestiola", a little beast.\n\nThe English word insect is straight from Pliny's contrived word "insectus" which is his literal translation of Aristotle's Greek term "entomon", literally "cut into", for such creatures because of their notched outline.  Aristotle's word gives us "entomologist".  Pliny's word would not have been used conversationally.
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When I need to figure out what an insect is I use www.whatsthatbug.com  You can search the site yourself, or ask them a question, they also have some good links listed.
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well as far as i know most bugs have hairs on there legs.there hairs fives them a sort of ststic cling. i read this i while ago becuse im not big in entomology. but imangine it like this .the hairs disturb the atoms on the wall which causes dispersion forces which cause the very small bug  to stick to the wall...also some bugs have suckers and some produce sticky secretions.\n\nby the wat water flees can walk on water because there light and they don't break the water membrane but will drown in you add soap to the water.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Insects\n\nOr, turn over a log.
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actually, insects have 6 legs, arachnids (spiders) have 8.\n\n6 legs is actually a very efficient and simple mode of moving.  When an insect walks the front and rear legs on one side along with the middle leg on the other move in lock step while the other 3 form a stable platform for the insect.
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Hmmm...wow...a VERY general question.  This is out of my field, but your other questions were so engaging I decided to see what else you have asked...\n\nFor the first one (how do they thrive/what modifications do they have). I am going to list things insects all have in common and that kill them when things go wrong with these systems:\nQ1:\n1) A chitinous exoskeleton, usually with a waxy covering that conserves water and provides mechanical protection.\n2) A system of spicules that enables oxygen/CO2 exchange without having to resort to an overly flexible out membrane keeping that mechanical protection sound. \n3) Segmented bodies and legs to allow greater flexibility of movement than is achievable solely with a segmented exoskeleton\n4) Wings for flight or additional mechanical protection\n5) Rudimentary circulatory system (this one might not qualify since I bet their ancestors had something like this too.)\n\nQ2:\nThere are a LOT of kinds of neoptera and I don't know much evolutionary biology so I will not attempt that one. Probably one trend has to do with the falling partial pressure of oxygen over the past few hundred million years and the guys getting smaller to cope. They all have flexible wings.  I dunno what else.  Sorry.\n\nQ3:  Compare flies to butterflies/moths/skippers.\nCommonalities: all 4 wings have flight function; larval stage that pupates; adults have tubular mouth parts\nDifferences:  antenna, scaled wings. \nThat is a start anyway. \n\nQ4:  Similarities: Chitinous exoskeletons, segmented bodies (but different numbers of segments), jointed legs, \nDifferences: wings vs. more legs, compound vs. simple eyes, pupation/metamorphosis vs. nymphal stages\n\nQ5:  Ecto means outside, and everyone know what parasitic means, so this would include lice, fleas, maybe mosquitos (they only suck blood for egg laying, you know), certain kinds of flies and true bugs.  They mostly live on blood, but I think some eat dead skin.  Geez, what else CAN you eat living on the outside of a critter?\n\nWhew.  Tough.
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Ok here is an example. I only compare and contrast them.\nThere are two books. Ant World and Centipede Center. Here is a speech.\nAnt World and Centipede Center have many simalarities and differences, but here are some of the most important ones. \nWell, Ant World and Centipede Center are both about bugs, but one book explains about where the bug lives, and one explains what the bug eats. They are about different kinds of insects, but they have the same number of pages and both show their life cycle. They both have a picture of the bug on the front cover, and the front cover is green. Even though these books have all of these differences and simalarities, they are both made by the same author.
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1 wot is a cochineal insect\n2 wot is a seron\nthen maybe i can helop! :S!