{"id":3407,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1185"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:05:58","slug":"1185","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1185","title":{"rendered":"Our Common Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/insects.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\t<i><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT\"><strong><font color=\"#333333\" size=\"4\">What is an Insect?<\/font><\/strong> <\/font><\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<!--more-->\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\">When we remember that the insects alone comprise four-fifths of the animal kingdom, and that there are upwards of 200,000 living species, it would seem a hopeless task to define what an insect is.<\/font><\/font><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\">But a common plan pervades the structure of them all. The bodies of all insects consist of a succession of rings, or segments, more or less hardened by the deposition of a chemical substance called chitine; these rings are arranged in three groups: the head, the thorax, or middle body, and the abdomen or hind body.<\/font><\/font><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\">In the six-footed insects, such as the bee, moth, beetle or dragon fly, four of these rings unite early in embryonic life to form the head; the thorax consists of three, as may be readily seen on slight examination, and the abdomen is composed either of ten or eleven rings.<\/font><\/font><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\">The body, then, seems divided or <\/font><i><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT\">insected <\/font><\/i><\/font><\/strong><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\">into three regions, whence the name <\/font><i><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT\">insect<\/font><\/i><\/font><\/strong><font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\"><strong><font size=\"3\">.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"TimesNewRomanPSMT\"><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"4\">This fascinating and educational PDF ebook can be yours for just $1.00!<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an Insect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"template":"","edd-categories":[48],"edd-tags":[],"class_list":["post-3407","download","type-download","status-publish","hentry","download_category-animals-nature","edd-download","edd-download-cat-animals-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/3407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/3407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/3407\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-categories&post=3407"},{"taxonomy":"download_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-tags&post=3407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}