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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.
The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present day. [5] Around 3,000 ethnic groups practice entomophagy. [6] Human insect-eating is common to cultures in most parts of the world, including Central and South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Eighty percent ...
Entomophagy is scientifically described as widespread among non-human primates and common among many human communities. [3] The scientific term describing the practice of eating insects by humans is anthropo-entomophagy. [7] The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric times to the present ...
Young African boy intrigued by a bright yellow and red moth. Various cultures throughout Africa utilize insects for many things and have developed unique interactions with insects: as food sources, for sale or trade in markets, or for use in traditional practices and rituals, as ethnomedicine or as part of their traditional ecological knowledge.
A giant water bug attacking a fish. Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. [1] This interaction is mostly mediated by the secretion and detection of chemicals (semiochemical) in the environment by insects. [2]
Humans regard many insects as pests, especially those that damage crops, and attempt to control them using insecticides and other techniques. Others are parasitic, and may act as vectors of diseases. Insect pollinators are essential to the reproduction of many flowering plants and so to their ecosystems. Many insects are ecologically beneficial ...
Thankfully, while some insect bites can be itchy and uncomfortable, Kassouf says that most do not pose a serious risk to humans. In most cases, the discomfort and itchiness is worst in the first ...
The saliva of the arthropod may contain anticoagulants, as in insects and arachnids which feed from blood. Feeding bites may also contain anaesthetic , to prevent the bite from being felt. Feeding bites may also contain digestive enzymes , as in spiders ; spider bites have primarily evolved to paralyse and then digest prey.