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  2. Category:Insect common names - Wikipedia

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    This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of insects which do not correspond to a taxon. Pages in category "Insect common names" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.

  3. Category:Lists of insect species - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of insect species" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 400 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. Insect - Wikipedia

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    Insect cooking oil, insect butter and fatty alcohols can be made from such insects as the superworm (Zophobas morio). [199] 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 ]

  5. List of short species names - Wikipedia

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    Skull of Beg tse (6 letters) Loa loa (6 letters) Original illustration of Tor tor (6 letters) Agra ce Erwin, 2010 - family Carabidae. One of more than 500 named species in the genus Agra of ground beetles; in this case, named after Terry Erwin's wife, Peruvian ornithologist Grace Servat. [13] †Beg tse Yu et al., 2020 - infraorder Neoceratopsia.

  6. Category:Lists of insects - Wikipedia

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    List of data deficient insects; List of dragonflies; E. List of endangered insects; H. ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  7. Earwig - Wikipedia

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    The common term, earwig, is derived from the Old English ēare, which means ' ear ', and wicga, which means ' insect ', or literally, ' beetle '. [2] Entomologists suggest that the origin of the name is a reference to the appearance of the hindwings, which are unique and distinctive among insects, and resemble a human ear when unfolded.

  8. Category:Insects - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Coccinellidae - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] Being beetles, they have hardened, non-overlapping forewings, known as elytra, which cover up the more fragile hindwings when the insects are not in flight. Their legs are relatively short, [16] with a tarsal formula of 4-4-4 (may appear 3-3-3 because the third segment of each tarsus is reduced).