Insect Orders
Entomologists vary in their naming of insect orders. The following list of orders comes from a college entomology textbook. The additional orders that you add to your collection must come from this approved list of insect orders. If your order is not on this list, you may not use it unless you ask and get prior written approval from the teacher.
| Thysanura | bristletails & silverfish | |
| Ephemeroptera | mayflies | |
| Odonata | dragonflies & damselflies | |
| Orthoptera | grasshoppers, crickets, praying mantids, walking sticks | |
| Dermaptera | earwigs | |
| Isoptera | termites | |
| Homoptera | aphids, leaf hoppers, plant hoppers, cicadas | |
| Hemiptera | true bugs including stink bugs & squash bugs | |
| Coleoptera | beetles | |
| Neuroptera | lacewings, dobson flies, ant lions | |
| Lepidoptera | butterflies & moths | |
| Hymenoptera | bees, ants, wasps | |
| Diptera | flies & mosquitoes | |
| Trichoptera | caddisflies | |
| Siphonaptera | fleas | |
| Mecoptera | scorpion flies | |
| Anoplura | sucking lice | |
| Mallophaga | chewing lice | |
| Collembola | spring tails | |
| Plecoptera | stoneflies | |
| Thysanoptera | thrips | |
| Embioptera | web spinners | |
| Protura | telsontails | |
| Psocoptera | bark lice | |
| Strepsiptera | twisted wing insects | |
| Zoraptera | zorapterans |
