Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous...
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white or pale green insects with transparent fore wings, while the field crickets (Gryllinae) are robust brown or black insects. Crickets have a cosmopolitan...
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This is a list of songs inspired by insects. Insects in music are known from everything from classical music and opera to ragtime and pop. Rimsky-Korsakov...
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Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby. Most insects are small and the majority...
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usually repeated in two or three phrases. The brown thrasher is an omnivore, with its diet ranging from insects to fruits and nuts. The usual nesting areas...
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One author described the song of the brown-eared bulbul as "one of the most unattractive noises made by any bird". The brown-eared bulbul is common in...
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Cicada (category Edible insects)
The cicadas (/sɪˈkɑːdəz, -ˈkeɪ-/) are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). They are in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha...
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roles in art, in music (with many songs featuring insects), in film, in literature, in religion, and in mythology. Insect costumes are used in theatrical...
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Parktown prawn (category Insects described in 1899)
unrelated to prawns, Libanasidus being insects in the order Orthoptera – crickets, locusts and similar insects. The king crickets are not true crickets...
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Neuroptera (redirect from Net-winged insect)
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order consists of some 6,000...
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Yellowjacket (category Insect common names)
to survive. Their mascot is a Yellowjacket, and the theme song features images of the insect as well. Note that yellowjacket is often spelled as two words...
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The brown creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American treecreeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper...
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medicinal uses of insects and other arthropods worldwide have been reviewed by Meyer-Rochow, who provides examples of all major insect groups, spiders,...
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Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54482-5. Insect infamy: rare beetle named for former California governor The Guardian "Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt". Ronstadt-linda...
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Northern cardinal (section Songs)
mainly granivorous but also feeds on insects and fruit. The male behaves territorially, marking out his territory with song. During courtship, the male feeds...
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Chrysoperla carnea (category Insects used as insect pest control agents)
morphologically but can be recognised by variations in the vibrational songs the insects use to communicate with each other, which they especially do during...
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wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect and struggles to adjust to his new condition. The novella has been recreated...
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"The Blackfly Song" is a song by Wade Hemsworth, written in 1949, about being tormented by black flies while working in the wilds of Northern Ontario...
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Kiwi (bird) (redirect from Brown Kiwi)
wolves and mice were taken up by birds (and, to a lesser extent, reptiles, insects and gastropods). The kiwi's mostly nocturnal habits may be a result of...
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catch insects stirred up by the larger animals. They mainly eat seeds, insects and rarely, berries.[citation needed] Before European settlement, brown-headed...
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insectivorous, taking flying insects on the wing. Across the whole family, a wide range of insects is taken from most insect groups, but the composition...
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Hey Duggee (section "The Stick Song")
stick turns out to be a stick insect, and starts singing "stick" repeatedly to a catchy dance tune. As of 2020, the song has been viewed over 7 million...
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rocky areas. The brown rock chat feeds mainly on insects, picked off the ground. They have been known to feed late and forage on insects attracted to artificial...
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posing as a bad guy. Schwoz comes in and reveals that he created a swarm of insect that are a hybrid of a fire termite, and a hornet. Chapa shakes the can...
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Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me (category Songs about insects)
number in Dan Bryant’s Shoo Fly Songster. "Shoo Fly" is among the songs ("John Brown's Body" is another) claimed as compositions by T. Brigham Bishop. According...
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written by Andre Merritt, Chris Brown, Brian Kennedy and Rob. A!, with the production of the song helmed by Kennedy. The song was released as the third single...
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Crawl (redirect from Crawl (song))
title song, 1980 "Crawl" (Atlas song), 2007 "Crawl" (Childish Gambino song), 2014 "Crawl" (Chris Brown song), 2009 "Crawl" (Kings of Leon song), 2009...
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wide. Eggs are white with areas of reddish-brown ranging from dots to small blotches. The calls and song between the Carolina chickadee and the black-capped...
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shrubland area called chaparral. Bewick's wrens are insect eaters. They glean insects and insect eggs from vegetation, including the trunks of trees....
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streaked with dark brown. The bird's call is like a tzii or tzee. It sound very "metallic" and it is a very short and not exactly a song at all. It nests...
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