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How many legs does an adult insect have? Answer with the whole number only.
Answer
6
- adult insect
- An insect in its adult stage; count the three pairs of thoracic legs.
- sources
- entomology.ucr.edu, australian.museum, en.wikipedia.org, encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (britannica.com/animal/insect): "all insects have... three pairs of legs"; corroborated by merriam-webster definition of insecta/hexapoda describing six legs as a defining class characteristic., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (class insecta defined by three pairs of legs, i.e. six legs, attached to the thorax); consistent with standard entomology references (e.g. merriam-webster definition of insecta/hexapod), encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (class insecta defined by three pairs of thoracic legs, six legs total); consistent with standard entomology references (e.g. borror and white, a field guide to insects)., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (class insecta): "adults ... have ... three pairs of legs." consistent with the hexapoda/insecta diagnosis (hexa- = six) used across standard entomology references (e.g., merriam-webster definition of insect as a six-legged arthropod)., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (class insecta): adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), a defining characteristic of the class., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (entomology overview: class insecta is defined by a body plan of three pairs of jointed legs attached to the thorax, i.e. six legs in the adult/imago stage), encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (entry on insecta): "all insects have... three pairs of legs" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect); corroborated by the u.s. national park service / general entomology reference stating adult insects have six legs attached to the thorax in three pairs., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect) and the u.s. national park service insect identification guide, both stating that adult insects (class insecta) have three pairs of legs, i.e. six legs total, attached to the thorax., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): "all adult insects have ... three pairs of legs"; consistent with the taxonomic definition of class insecta (hexapoda = "six-legged") used in standard entomology references (e.g., merriam-webster: insecta derives from latin hexapoda, 'six-footed')., encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): "all insects have six legs...", encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" article (class insecta defined by three pairs of legs on the thorax); corroborated by national geographic kids "insects" reference page stating adult insects have six legs, encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" entry: "adults have... three pairs of legs" (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect), encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" entry: adult insects have three pairs of jointed legs (six legs total), one defining characteristic of the class insecta, encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" entry: adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), attached to the thorax, encyclopaedia britannica, "insect" entry: all adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), a defining characteristic of the class insecta., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (britannica.com/animal/insect): adult insects have three pairs of legs, i.e. six legs total, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (class insecta): adults have three pairs of legs (six legs total), attached to the thorax, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (entomology class insecta is defined by three pairs of legs, i.e. six legs, on the thorax of the adult/imago), encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (entry on class insecta): adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), one pair attached to each of the three thoracic segments., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect) and the smithsonian national museum of natural history's 'buginfo' pages (https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo), both of which state that insects, defined by having three pairs of (six) legs, are hexapods, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): 'adult insects... have three pairs of legs'; consistent with the class-level diagnostic definition of insecta (hexapoda) as six-legged arthropods., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): 'like other arthropods, insects... have... three pairs of legs.' also national geographic / standard entomology references (e.g., merriam-webster definition of insecta) state insects have six legs as a defining characteristic of the class., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry (britannica.com/animal/insect): all adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), attached to the thorax, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect) and national geographic 'insects' overview, both stating that insects (class insecta) are defined by having six legs (three pairs) in the adult stage, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): 'all adult insects have ... three pairs of legs'; consistent with the entomological definition of class insecta (phylum arthropoda) as hexapods with one pair of legs per each of three thoracic segments, totaling six legs., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect): 'like all insects, it has three pairs of legs.' also merriam-webster definition of 'insect': 'any of a class (insecta) of arthropods... with the body divided into three regions (head, thorax, and abdomen) and bearing three pairs of legs.', encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: 'as adults, most insects... have three pairs of legs' (https://www.britannica.com/animal/insect); smithsonian institution national museum of natural history, 'insects: classification' fact sheet, which defines insecta (class hexapoda) by the diagnostic trait of six legs (three pairs) on the thorax of the adult., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: 'insects... have three pairs of legs'; consistent with the defining hexapod (six-legged) characteristic of class insecta, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: 'like other insects, adults have three pairs of legs (six legs total)'; consistent with standard entomology texts (e.g., borror and delong's introduction to the study of insects) defining insecta by three thoracic leg pairs., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: adult insects (class insecta) have three pairs of legs, i.e. six legs., encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), a defining characteristic of the class insecta, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry: adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), attached to the thorax, encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect' entry; merriam-webster definition of 'insect' (class insecta: six-legged arthropods), encyclopaedia britannica, 'insect': adult insects have three pairs of legs (six legs total), a defining characteristic of the class insecta, encyclopaedia britannica, entry 'insect': all adult insects have three pairs of jointed legs (six legs total), attached to the thorax, entomology.mgcafe.uky.edu, extension.arizona.edu, extension.missouri.edu, naturalhistory.si.edu, smithsonian national museum of natural history, what is an insect? (https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/what-insect); american museum of natural history, what is entomology? (https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/entomology/what-is-entomology), smithsonian national museum of natural history, what is an insect? https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/what-insect, smithsonian national museum of natural history, what is an insect? https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/what-insect — states that insects have six legs., smithsonian national museum of natural history, ‘what is an insect?’ https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/life-science/what-insect (states insects have six legs; accessed 2026-10-02)., university of california, riverside department of entomology, w.e. ch. 4: https://entomology.ucr.edu/we-ch-4 (states adult hexapods possess 3 pairs of legs)., university of kentucky entomology, insect basics (https://entomology.mgcafe.uky.edu/content/insect-basics), www.amnh.org, www.britannica.com, www.calacademy.org
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