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Pages in category "Template-Class Insects pages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,844 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The heaviest of this widespread, varied complex of insects is the Little Barrier Island giant weta, Deinacrida heteracantha, of New Zealand; one specimen weighed 71 g (2.5 oz) and measured nearly 10 cm (3.9 in), [2] giving it one of the largest insect weights ever known. These heavyweight insects can be over 9 cm (3.5 in) long. [8]
By moving its mouthparts the insect mixes its food with saliva. [50] [51] Some insects, like flies, expel digestive enzymes onto their food to break it down, but most insects digest their food in the gut. [52] The foregut is lined with cuticule as protection from tough food. It includes the mouth, pharynx, and crop which stores food. [53]
The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also includes several Check Lists of British Insects. All books contain line drawings, with the most recent volumes including colour photographs.
A Times Higher Education review says, "It was Fabre's Book of Insects, extracts from that extraordinary man's Souvenirs entomologiques, "retold" – and with an exemplary clarity and simplicity which made me feel enlisted and embraced but never patronised – by a Mrs Rudolph Stawell. Years later I read the full Souvenirs themselves and ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Lists of insect species" The following 200 pages are in this category, out ...