Do all insects have six legs?
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wickedwillie
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Mature insects have six legs. They may have other leg-like appendages. Insect larvae may have none or many. _______ I will grant the correction in the feedback. Caterpillars and inch worms apparently technically have only six real legs and a multiplicity of "prolegs," so it depends on what the questioner meant by "legs."
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No, Some have eight, like spiders!
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Yes - all insects of the insect family have six legs. Spiders have eight legs and are not insects. Some of us call all creepy crawly things 'bugs' and that is an OK generalization. But a spider is not an insect, nor is a millipede an insect but they can all be called bugs.
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What about centipedes?
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Yes, all insects have six legs, at least when they are in their adult form. Six legs is part of the definition of insects. See http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/insects.html for more.
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There are a few rules for a specific genus to be considered an insect or in the class of Hexapoda. They must have 3 distinct body regions(head, thorax, and abdomen), a pair of antennae, 3 pairs of legs, and usually 1 or 2 pairs of wings. Then there about about 28 different orders under Hexapoda that entomologists have classified them in.
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