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Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs.
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.
Herbivory is of extreme ecological importance and prevalence among insects.Perhaps one third (or 500,000) of all described species are herbivores. [4] Herbivorous insects are by far the most important animal pollinators, and constitute significant prey items for predatory animals, as well as acting as major parasites and predators of plants; parasitic species often induce the formation of galls.
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 .
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 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Lists of insects (6 C, 20 P) M. Lists of ... United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of threatened and ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]