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Aedes albopictus A U.S. Navy medical entomologist identifying insects. The discipline of medical entomology, or public health entomology, and also veterinary entomology is focused upon insects and arthropods that impact human health. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases can "jump species" and become a ...
Beneficial insects (sometimes called beneficial bugs) are any of a number of species of insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest control. The concept of beneficial is subjective and only arises in light of desired outcomes from a human perspective.
Insects form an important part of the food chain, especially for entomophagous vertebrates such as many mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. Insects play a critical role in maintaining community structure and composition; in the case of animals through diseases transmission, predation and parasitism , and in plants through phytophagy and ...
Flies are the second most important pollinating insects worldwide, according to Joe Boggs, assistant professor in Ohio State University's Department of Entomology and OSU Extension.
The idea of insects as human food is widely practiced in traditional societies and has been proposed as a solution to meet the growing demand for food but has not gained widespread acceptance in the West. Insects can also be used in the forensic setting as well as in the medical veterinary setting.
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
Pollination of flowering plants by insects including bees, butterflies, flies, and beetles, is economically important. [162] The value of insect pollination of crops and fruit trees was estimated in 2021 to be about $34 billion in the US alone. [163] Insects produce useful substances such as honey, [164] wax, [165] [166] lacquer [167] and silk ...
Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described are classified as insects. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A pie chart of described eukaryote species, showing just over half of these to be insects