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GLOSSARY<br />
Pollinate<br />
To carry pollen to fertilise a plant.<br />
Population<br />
A group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a<br />
given area.<br />
Predator<br />
Any carnivorous animal.<br />
Prehistoric<br />
Of, or relating to, a man’s development before the<br />
written word.<br />
Prey<br />
An animal hunted or captured by another for food.<br />
Primitive<br />
Of, relating to, or resembling an early stage in<br />
development.<br />
Proboscis<br />
Sucking mouth tube of moths and butterflies.<br />
Pupa<br />
An insect at the immobile non-feeding stage of<br />
development between larva and adult, where many<br />
internal changes occur.<br />
Pupate<br />
Become a pupa.<br />
63<br />
Regurgitate<br />
To vomit forth partially digested food.<br />
Setae<br />
Stiff bristles on a worm.<br />
Simple eye<br />
The small eye of an insect.<br />
Social<br />
Living, or preferring to live, in a community rather<br />
than alone.<br />
Spiracle<br />
An external breathing hole of an insect.<br />
Swarm<br />
A large mass of small animals, especially insects.<br />
Thorax<br />
Part of an insect’s body between the head and the abdomen.<br />
Virus<br />
Submicroscopic entities that cause infection or disease,<br />
which can multiply only within the cells of animals and<br />
plants.<br />
Wingspan<br />
The maximum extent of the wings measured from tip<br />
to tip.
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