Bug Guide
What Can A Bug Guide Teach Me?
A bug guide will help its user to identify and relate to the bugs around their homes and yards, making them seem somewhat more bearable. This little bug guide may help you to put insects into the proper categories, and maybe to decipher the “good” from the “bad.” If you live in the north eastern regions of North America, you are privy to very few, if any, poisonous bugs. Wherever you live, however, there are bugs that can be potential hazards to the human race, what with their preoccupation for spreading germs from fecal matter and other such horrific materials. A bug guide would be ideal in these situations, but here are a few of our most common details about bugs.
Bugs are the creepy crawlies that we often don’t see until it’s too late, and often don’t consider until they scare the living tar out of us. But they not only share our world, they actually rule it, by design. They are an all important source within the food chain, and out number us by about one million to one. Where are they, why are they, and what are they? They’re everywhere, for very good reason, and they come in every shape, form, size, and color. The order of insects is the largest classification in the bug guide, and is where most bugs fit in. Beetles, butterflies, bees, and ants are all members of the classification insecta.
Next on the bug guide list would be the family arthropod, of which the classification arachnid is part. Within the arachnid, or spider family, there are literally tens of thousands of species of spiders. Some are so minute that the naked eye would skim over without taking notice, and some are so enormous as to spear the heart with panic. The largest, the black tarantula, is not even poisonous, and rarely bites unless severely intimidated. Brown recluse spiders, the lone venomous spider in the recluse subgenus, has only 6 eyes and is considerably dangerous to young children and to those who are on not in the best of health.
The most likely next chapter in the bug guide would be the centipede group. He stands alone, this creepy crawly, with a minimum of ten pair of legs and a flare for the dramatic. He hides beneath rocks, stones, and pieces of timber until disturbed, at which point he runs quickly in every direction at once, leaving you breathless and screaming for cover. His cousin, the millipede, enjoys the same games, though both are relatively harmless to humans. They will attack one another and eat each others young, but humans are more apt to be a bother to them than they are to us.