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Insects have equally been used for their strangeness and alien qualities, with giant wasps and intelligent ants threatening human society in science fiction stories. Locusts have represented greed, and more literally plague and destruction, while the fly has been used to indicate death and decay, and the grasshopper has indicated improvidence.
Pages in category "Fictional insects" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A. Flea; Anton Arcane; B.
Insect-like extraterrestrials have long been a part of the tradition of science fiction. In the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès portrayed the Selenites (moon inhabitants) as insectoid. [1] The Woggle-Bug appeared in L. Frank Baum's Oz books beginning in 1904. Olaf Stapledon incorporates insectoids in his 1937 Star Maker novel. [2]
Children's books about insects (25 P) E. Fictional entomologists (1 C, 14 P) F. Fiction about beekeeping (14 P) ... Pages in category "Fiction about insects"
Insect identification is an increasingly common hobby, with butterflies [12] and (to a lesser extent) dragonflies being the most popular. [13] Most insects can easily be allocated to order, such as Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) or Coleoptera (beetles).
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.
The process of parthenogenesis means that identification of species cannot rely on the biological species concept. In 2016, a single male specimen of A. inermis was observed in the United Kingdom. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Some lineages of Acanthoxyla are triploid but Acanthoxyla inermis is diploid [ 21 ] and therefore males can be produced if one X ...
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.