Insect order quiz

name all the main insect orders by the insects in them and their etymologies

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Common Names	Latin meaning	Answer
Springtails	Sticky pegs/feet	Collembola
Dragonflies and Damselflies	Toothed ones	Odonata
Mayflies	Lives for a day and has wings	Ephemeroptera
Earwigs	Skin wings	Dermaptera
Grasshoppers and Crickets	Straight wings	Orthoptera
Cockroaches	n/a	Blattodea
True bugs	Half wings	Hemiptera
Ants, bees and wasps	Membrane wings	Hymenoptera
Beetles	Sheath wings	Coleoptera
Flies	Two wings	Diptera
Butterflies and Moths	Scale wings	Lepidoptera