Explore insects and other arthropods, including identification, behavior, anatomy and common misconceptions.
[Economic Significance] Homoptera includes cicadas, foamhoppers, leafhoppers, treehoppers, waxhoppers, planthoppers, psyllids, whiteflies, aphids and scale insects. It is a larger group in the Insecta class with large mo···
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[Economic Significance] Dragonflies have slender bodies, bright colors, elegant postures, flexible and agile flight, interesting and attractive. They are people's favorite ornamental insects, often active in fields, gard···
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[Economic Significance] Because many species of insects of this order often inhabit the flowers of large thistles, small thistles and other plants, they are named thrips. They are small, agile, capable of flying and jump···
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The subclass Pterygota has wings or reduced wings. There are no gastropods in the abdomen. Except for the original metamorphosis of the order Ephemera, the rest have incomplete metamorphosis or complete metamorphosis. [E···
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Commonly known as springtails, because it has a bouncer at the end of its abdomen, hence the name Collembola. Its first abdominal segment has a sucker-shaped abdominal tube, and its fourth abdominal segment has a bifurca···
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The antennae are in the shape of beads and have built-in chewing mouthparts; there are no compound eyes or single eyes. The body length is 2-20 mm. There is a kind of worm in Tibet, my country, with a body length of 49 m···
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The subclass Apterygota is characterized by its small body and primitive winglessness. There are gastropod remains in the abdomen. Metamorphosis or metamorphosis. Protura (Xolotl) This order is commonly known as salama···
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In addition to a pair of long tail whiskers, the tail of this type of insect also has a middle tail filament, hence the name tassel. The body is 4-20 mm long, narrow and tapered at the end, and the body surface is often ···
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The Insecta class not only has a wide variety of species, but also has extremely diverse morphological structures. Therefore, there are many classification systems. Different taxonomists have different opinions, and they···
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Insects belong to Insecta (Hexapoda), a class under the phylum Arthropoda. Therefore, insects have characteristics common to the phylum Arthropods, and at the same time have characteristics that are different from other ···
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Classification is the most basic method to understand objective things, so biological classification is the basic method to understand living things. Biological classification uses classification hierarchies (classificat···
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The caudal palps are usually a pair of whisker-like protrusions, which are born on the membrane between the supra-anal plate and the lateral anal plate transformed from the 11th abdominal segment. Although sometimes they···
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The eighth and ninth segments of the female adult have structures for laying eggs, called ovipositors. The ovipositor is generally tubular and consists of the first ovipositing valve located on the eighth abdominal segme···
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Insects are the only winged animals among invertebrates. Flight makes insects more capable than land animals in foraging, courting, avoiding enemies, and expanding their distribution range, and has become the basis for t···
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(1) Basic structure of thorax and feet The legs are the locomotion organs of insects. Insects have 3 pairs of legs, one pair each on the prothorax, mesothorax and metathorax, which we call forefoot, middle foot and hindf···
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1. The head structure of insects The head is the frontmost segment of the insect's body, which is the sensory and feeding center. The head is composed of several body segments that are fused together, with a hard outer w···
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The mouthparts are the mouths of insects, responsible for feeding. Insect food comes from a wide range of sources, including solid and liquid, exposed and deeply hidden. Therefore, insects have a variety of corresponding···
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Do insects have the same eyes as humans? Can they distinguish different colors? Let’s talk about these issues below. First of all, we can definitely say that the eyes of insects are different from those of humans. The e···
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Except for Protocera, which has no antennae, and higher Diptera and Hymenoptera larvae, which have degenerated antennae, all other species of insects have one pair of antennae. The tentacles grow in the middle and upper ···
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In our daily lives, we are directly or indirectly related to insects all the time. Especially in the season after spring and before the harsh winter comes, there are so many insects that you can see them everywhere. In a···
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There are so many types of insects, so their lifestyles and living places must be diverse, and the lifestyles and life instincts of some insects are of great research value. It can be said that from the ends of the earth···
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my country has a vast territory and complex natural conditions. It is the only country in the world that spans two major animal geographical regions. Therefore, it is one of the countries with the largest number of insec···
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Recent research shows that there may be 10 million species of insects in the world, accounting for about half of all biological species on the earth. However, there are currently only 1 million named insect species, acco···
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In terms of weight, the heaviest insect in the world is the giant rhinoceros beetle of tropical America (Coleoptera, family Rhinoptera). This rhinoceros beetle is 155 mm long from the protrusion of its head to the end of···
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