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Robber fly feeding on wasp Fried saturniid caterpillars being served on bread for human consumption. Entomophagy (/ ˌ ɛ n t ə ˈ m ɒ f ə dʒ i /, from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects.
Evidence suggests that evolutionary precursors of Homo sapiens were entomophagous and arachnophagous. Insectivory also features to various degrees amongst extant primates, such as marmosets and tamarins, [19] and some researchers suggest that the earliest primates were nocturnal, arboreal insectivores. [10]
Entomopathogenic fungi are parasitic unicellular or multicellular microorganisms belonging to the kingdom of Fungi, that can infect and seriously disable or kill insects.. Entomopathogenicity is not limited to a particular class of fungi and is found in six divisions in the fungal kingdom (Ascomycota, Oomycetes, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, and Microsporidia)
This classification consists of necrobiont insects which use decaying remains as a permanent environment necessary for their life and development. Necrobiont insects includes necrophagous and entomophagous trophic specializations, [10] or necrophagous, predaceous/parasitic and omnivorous species.
Entomophaga is a genus of entomopathogenic fungi in the Entomophthoraceae family and also the order Entomophthorales. [2] This has been supported by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Gryganskyi et al. 2012).
Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi.
Enron employees leave the headquarters building in 2002 in downtown Houston, Texas. The company appears to have been relaunched as of Dec. 2, 2024 as an elaborate joke more than 20 years after it ...
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly 1 mm (0.039 in) long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts. Entomologists have described approximately 7,700 species.