Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insect)
as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...
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Eusociality (redirect from Eusocial insect)
colonies can be viewed as superorganisms. Eusociality has evolved among the insects, crustaceans, trematoda and mammals. It is most widespread in the Hymenoptera...
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evolution of insects is based on studies of the following branches of science: molecular biology, insect morphology, paleontology, insect taxonomy, evolution...
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Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the...
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planet, with over a million species identified so far. The title of heaviest insect in the world has many contenders, the most frequently crowned of which is...
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Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other...
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disparate groups of wingless insects. Apterygota are a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the...
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2010s, reports emerged about the widespread decline in insect populations across multiple insect orders. The reported severity shocked many observers,...
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The use of insects as live jewelry has existed for many centuries, with the Egyptians believed to have been the first to have worn insects as jewelry...
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Arthropod leg (redirect from Insect trochanter)
moths and sawflies. Prolegs do not have the same structure as modern adult insect legs, and there has been a great deal of debate as to whether they are homologous...
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Dryococelus (redirect from Lord Howe Island Stick Insect)
australis, commonly known as the Lord Howe Island stick insect or tree lobster, is a species of stick insect that lives on the Lord Howe Island Group. It is the...
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Retrieved 30 December 2018. Grasshopper Country: The Abundant Orthopteroid Insects of Australia, by David C. Rentz. 1995. ISBN 0-86840-063-7 Species synopses...
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Cockroach (redirect from Roach (insect))
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats...
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Phylliidae (redirect from Leaf insect)
Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged...
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(up to 35%) that allowed larger insects, such as meganeura, along with arachnids, to evolve. Insects were once believed to exchange gases with the environment...
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Mantis (redirect from Praying mantis (insect))
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids")...
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Insect euthanasia is the process of killing insects "in a way that minimizes or eliminates pain and distress.": 6 It may apply to animals in the laboratory...
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Insect thermoregulation is the process whereby insects maintain body temperatures within certain boundaries. Insects have traditionally been considered...
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Sandgropers are wholly subterranean apterous insects of the family Cylindrachetidae that may grow up to 7 cm (3 in) long. Three genera of these orthopterans...
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damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests. Academically, the interaction of insects and society has been treated in part as cultural...
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The Fly (1986 film) (redirect from Insect politics)
Ronnie, he reconnects with her and says he is becoming a hybrid of human and insect. He has nicknamed this "Brundlefly". He has also begun vomiting digestive...
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Cochineal (redirect from Cochineal Insect)
also /ˌkoʊtʃɪˈniːl, ˈkoʊtʃɪniːl/ KOH-chih-; Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived...
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Cyborg (redirect from Cyborg insect)
called Hybrid-Insect-MEMS (HI-MEMS). Its goal, according to DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office, is to develop "tightly coupled machine-insect interfaces...
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Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2020. "Scientists believe insects would kill coca crops". (June 9, 2005). NBC News.com. Retrieved March...
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Locust (redirect from Locust (insect))
grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they become more...
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strong effects on certain animals. It is believed that plants developed caffeine as a chemical defense against insects. In 1948, Swiss pharmacologist Peter...
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wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles...
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has been adapted into a television film. The title refers to the sterile insect technique, a technique of eradicating the population of screwflies by the...
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ingredients that they believe are healthy. This creates a competition with the human food chain for quality protein sources. Producing insect protein through...
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Fulgora laternaria (redirect from Machaca (insect))
eyes to resemble that of a lizard or a serpent. The insect was originally - and mistakenly - believed to be luminescent. When attacked, it protects itself...
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