KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Insects with sharp, powerful mandibles are classified as “chewing insects.” They are able to cut and chew solid food such as leaves, seeds or other insects. Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, cockroaches and earwigs are all chewing insects.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term “plant pest", mainly applied to insect micropredators of plants, has a specific definition in terms of the International Plant Protection Convention and phytosanitary measures worldwide. A pest is any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal, or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chewing/rasping insects have mouthparts that are able to chew holes into leaves, buds, roots, seeds, fruits or woody parts of plants. Examples of leaf chewing insects include earwigs, caterpillars, sawfly larvae, webworms, leafrollers, skeletonizers, cutworms, flea beetles, blister beetles, and cucumber beetles.