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List of Agromyza species. List of Alabagrus species. List of Aleochara species. List of Alluaudomyia species. List of Amara species. List of Ambrosiodmus species. List of Amegilla species. List of Andrena species. List of Anomala species.
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 ]
L. List of largest insects. List of least concern insects. List of Cicindelidae from India. List of insect galls. List of Parthenicus species. List of Scarabaeidae subfamilies and tribes.
Insects, which are a type of arthropod, are the most numerous group of multicellular organisms on the planet, with over a million species identified so far. [1] The title of heaviest insect in the world has many contenders, the most frequently crowned of which is the larval stage of the goliath beetle , Goliathus goliatus , the maximum size of ...
An even higher risk is faced by critically endangered species, which meet the quantitative criteria for endangered species. Critically endangered insects are listed separately. There are 538 insect species which are endangered or critically endangered. Additionally 1702 insect species (28% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient ...
Insect biodiversity. Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described are classified as insects. [1] [2] A pie chart of described eukaryote species, showing just over half of these to be insects.
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [2] [3] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [4] Many of the species are parasitic. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise ...
Iowa and Michigan are the two states without a designated state insect. More than half of the insects chosen are not native to North America , because of the inclusion of three European species ( European honey bee , European mantis , and 7-spotted ladybird ), each having been chosen by multiple states.