How to identify an insect from other creepy crawlies!
Do you tend to classify spiders, mites, ticks, millipedes or flies as insects? Well, all creepy crawlies are not insects. One way to tell is to count the legs. If a creature has six legs, it is an insect. If it has fewer or more, it is some other kind of animal. But hey, leg counting only works with adults! You see, some young forms or larvae, like fly maggots, have no legs at all. Yet they develop into six legged flies, and a fly is an insect!
So then, mites, ticks, spiders and scorpions have eight legs and are called arachnids. They are not insects.
Centipedes have many legs while millipedes have more than them, maybe fifty or even 100 legs!! Thus they are certainly not insects.
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