In the photo above taken last year, Central Catholic students and former students join others in the Respect Life Sunday march against abortion in front of Epiphany Church on College Avenue in Normal.

The above monarch was raised in our Biology lab in the fall of 2006.  When it emerged from its chrysalis, if flew to a south window and this photograph was taken.  After warming up, this individual was released and flew high into the sky and out of sight.  (Photo taken Oct. 1, 2006.)

Welcome to the Central Catholic Biology web pages.

 

If you are interested in current assignments for the freshman Biology class click Biology.  If you are interested in clubs and science activities, click on Clubs.  I will do my best to keep this information current.  I may even change the pages completely from time to time.

 

 

Chinese Praying Mantid (Oriental Praying Mantis) 

Gender: Male -- females have only six abdominal segments

Background painting by Colton Cox.

Classification we use in class.  (We're "lumpers")

Kingdom Animalia (no cell walls, moves under own power, eats its food)

  Phylum Arthropoda (segmented body, paired jointed appendages, etc.)

      Class Insecta/Hexapoda (three body regions, six legs, compound eyes)

        Order Orthoptera (Dictyoptera to splitters)

            Family Mantidae

              Genus Tenodera

                  Species Tenodera aridofolia

                    Variety Tenodera aridofolia sinensis

Alternative classification (for "splitters".)

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

  Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

      Superclass Hexapoda (Hexapods)

        Class Insecta (Insects)

            Subclass Pterygota (Winged Insects)

              Order Dictyoptera (Mantids and Cockroaches)

                  Suborder Mantodea (Mantids)

                    Family Mantidae

                        Genus Tenodera

                          Species Tenodera aridifolia

                              Subspecies Tenodera aridofolia sinensis