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Insect species including the black soldier fly or the housefly in their maggot forms, and beetle larvae such as mealworms, can be processed and used as feed for farmed animals including chicken, fish and pigs. [200] Many species of insects are sold and kept as pets. [201]
Scarabaeus hercules (now Dynastes hercules) was the first species in Linnaeus' class "Insecta". Linnaeus divided the class Insecta into seven orders, based chiefly on the form of the wings. He also provided a key to the orders: [2] 4 wings; pairs dissimilar; forewings fully hardened: Coleoptera; forewings partly hardened: Hemiptera; pairs similar
Pages in category "Insects by classification" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. P. Polyneoptera
Articles relating to insects, pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum.Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group of animals, with more than a million described species; they represent more than half of all animal species.
The field is also referred to as insectology in American English, while in British English insectology implies the study of the relationships between insects and humans. [2] Over 1.3 million insect species have been described by entomology. [3]
Lists of insect species (1 C, 400 P) Pages in category "Lists of insects" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Between 950,000–1,000,000 of all described animal species are considered insects, so over 50% of all described eukaryotes (1.8 million species) are insects (see illustration). With only 950,000 known non-insects, if the actual total number of insects is 5.5 million, they may represent over 80% of the total, and with only about 20,000 new ...
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