Explore insects and other arthropods, including identification, behavior, anatomy and common misconceptions.
According to statistics, there are more than 2 million species of various insects worldwide, mainly living in tropical and temperate regions. In the Arctic, due to the cold weather and harsh environment, there are much f···
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Entomology is a science that specializes in elucidating various laws related to the life activities of insects, and studying their utilization and prevention. Since insects are closely related to all aspects of human lif···
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1. Needle-dried specimenGenerally, adult insects are made into pin-dried specimens, which can be stored permanently without any treatment. The method is to take the specimen out of the paper bag (if the specimen is dry, ···
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Nets are generally used to catch butterflies, dragonflies, jumping locusts, etc. that are good at flying. Insects in large areas of grass and dense shrubs are difficult to see with the naked eye, so you can use a net to ···
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Insects are ubiquitous on the earth, so insects can be collected everywhere; but each type of insect has its own preferred environment. For example, you can collect many cockroaches (cockroaches) that steal food in the k···
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The tiger carapace is golden green, copper or gray with yellow markings. The head is broad and the compound eyes are prominent. It has three pairs of slender thorax and legs, and can move quickly and flexibly. Tiger beet···
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The story of "Nangying Night Reading" has been included in textbooks and can be said to be very popular. It is said that 1700 years ago, there was a poor boy named Che Yin who studied very hard and refused to let go of t···
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Fireflies like to live in humid, watery, and weedy places, especially along the banks of streams and rivers. There was an old saying in my country called "Corrugated grass grows fireflies," which reflects this habit. The···
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At dusk in summer, among the grass and shrubs in mountain streams, it is common to see small lanterns hanging in the air, as if competing with the stars, or like a couple holding lanterns for a night out. If you use a sm···
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This species is the most beautiful among the beetles in my country. Body length: 27-42 mm, body width 8-13.6 mm. The back of the body is olive green, sometimes green with blue. But it is generally more or less coppery, e···
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The beetles we see usually have their elytra covering the entire abdomen, but there are also a few beetles whose elytra are very short and only cover the front 1-2 segments of the abdomen. The fir beetle is one of the th···
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The body length of the microbiome is 4-6.5 mm, and the body width is 1-2 mm. It is the smallest known beetle in my country. The body is brownish gray to brownish red, quite dark. The female antennae are slender, especial···
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This species looks like a bee and is extremely rare. The body is small, 10-14 mm long and 2.5-3 mm wide. The color of the sexes is slightly different. Most of the male's body is black, only the back of the elytra is ···
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Hairy Longhorn Beetle body length: 23-34 mm; body width: 9-13.5 mm. The body is thick, with a black base, and the whole body is covered with brown to brown-red hairs. The head, thorax, elytra, leg segments and ventral su···
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The body is huge, body length: 63-110 mm. Body width: more than 20 mm, it is the largest beetle in my country. The body color is dark brown-red to tan, and the head, chest and antennae are dark in color, sometimes dark b···
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The green orange beetle is also known as the twig beetle and the flute beetle. Distributed in Sichuan. Damage to citrus plants such as sweet oranges, red tangerines and lemons. The newly hatched larvae first damage the t···
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Gray long-horned beetle (Gray long-horned beetle) is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei, and Shandong in China, and is distributed in Europe, Siberia of the Soviet Union, and North Korea abroad. Damage to red pine···
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The pine longhorned beetle is also known as the pine longhorned beetle and the pine longhorned beetle. Domestically distributed in Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Sichuan, Yunnan, a···
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Pink-necked beetles are distributed throughout all provinces in China, and abroad in North Korea and the former Soviet Union. It is the main pest of peach trees. Plums, plums, cherries, apples, and apricots in the south ···
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Longhorn beetle is also known as brown beetle and iron cannon insect. Distributed in all provinces of my country, and abroad in Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, and India. It is an important pest of many kinds of fo···
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In our country, the star beetle is the most common. Star beetles are also known as citrus star beetles and silver star beetles. The domestic distribution starts from Jilin and Liaoning in the north, to Gansu, Shaanxi, Si···
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The larvae of the beetle live in the trunk of the tree and bore out the trunk, making the tree easy to break, so people call it the "tree-sawing man". The "Three North" protective forest is our countr···
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Longhorn beetles are a well-known type of insect. Many people have caught or observed beetles when they were children and became interested in them. The interesting thing is that when you grab it, it will make a "cr···
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The body of the armor is generally elongated, and there are often spikes or knobs on the back and elytra of the body, making it look like a warrior wearing iron armor, so it is called the armor. The iron armor mentioned ···
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