A SURVEY OF INSECT SPECIES IN GADAU CAMPUS, BAUCHI STATE UNIVERSITY

Student: Aliyu Sulaiman Bagyar
Supervisor: Mr Ismail Habibu
HOD: Dr Bashir Abubakar Mohammed
Department of Biological Sciences
Science
Sa'adu Zungur University, Bauchi State

Abstract

Insects are any group of Small and often winged animals from the phylum arthropoda having six jointed legs. Insects or insects (from Latin insectum) are pan crustacean hexopod invertebrates and the logistics group within the arthropod phylum. This study is to survey a collection, identification, and preservation of Insect species in Gadau campus, Bauchi state University, with the primary objectives of determine the abundance of Insect species and to preserve Insect species for a long period of time and for scientific research within Gadau campus Bauchi state University. Some materials are use such as Ethylacelate, entomology pins, specimen bottle and filled not book. Six (6) different insects in general collected from 3 habitats type which include: Danaus kluk collected from two habitats type (2) from land and (12) from Garden as the highest species collected and cicidela (2) collected from land as the list species. The result obtained Out of 100 samples, the abundance frequency and percentage of insects collected and expressed as percentage, more studies should be carried out work on the Biology of insects and also species of insect identified are listed in an appendix. Key words: lnsects, dry preservation method (Direct pinning) Gadau, Bauchi state University.

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