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Insects play a very large role in the circle of life on earth. They represent a large population of the animal kingdom. Fascinating to some,creepy to others but always present in our daily lives. Questions about any sort of bug go here.

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Why would you find more grasshoppers than hawks in a given ecosystem?

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changes in plant production and nutritional quality, changes in grasshopper growth and development rates, and changes in predation, parasitism, and pathogen infection rates.

Which Poisonous insect with 100 legs?

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Back on May 10, this is one of the things that Sam and I found under a rock. We didn't spot it at first, because it looked a great deal like a small plant root - at least until it moved. It's almost two centimeters long, but less than a millimeter wide. It's a soil centipede, order Geophilomorpha. These are actually getting close to deserving the name "centipede" ("hundred-legger"), because for this one I count 39 pairs of legs (78 legs total). Some other species of soil centipede actually do have over a hundred legs. An interesting point about centipedes (or at least, I think it is interesting): the different types of centipedes are actually quite distantly related to each other. Notice I said it was in the Order Geophilomorpha. The Stone Centipede that I posted a while back (and that we found under the same rock) is in the order Lithobiomorpha. Since they are in different orders, they are no more closely related to each other than, say, beetles are to butterflies. And other "myriapods", like millipedes, are about as closely related to centipedes as they are to lobsters or spiders. I understand that the biologists currently think that the "myriapods" are pretty much what the ancestral arthropods looked like. We evidently have a bunch of distantly-related groups that, even though their last common ancestor was a long time ago, didn't happen to evolve in a way that changed their body morphology too much. As a result, they still all look generally similar to each other even though they probably became separate groups sometime before there were dinosaurs. Anyway, soil centipedes are generally carnivorous, and run under leaf litter and down earthworm holes to eat other small things that they find underground. These are enough smaller than the stone centipedes that I can't really see them being any harm to anyone, and I don't see any sign of poison claws in these pictures (although, to be fair, the heads are so small that it's hard to see details). They evidently don't have eyes, because, well, why would they have them? What is there to see under a rock, anyway? Normally, you probably won't even notice these until you go specifically looking for them, but as soon as you look closely they are probably all over the place anytime you start digging.

What is the Name of insect having no eyes?

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Fleas don't possess compound eyes but they have only simple eyespots with a single biconvex lens & Spring tails have two eyes, but these two are actually clusters of up to 8 single eyes but they are not technically compound eyes.

Why are there so many insects?

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becuas thar are a lot of climets reagens microclimets.

What are the differences between bird alimentary canal and insect alimentary canal?

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There are several differences between a bird's and an insect's alimentary canals. A bird's begins with the beak while an insect's doesn't. A bird's alimentary canal has a tongue, pancreas and duodenum, while an insect's doesn't.

What is shedding of skin in an insect called?

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The process of shedding skin in insects is Ecdysis.

What is a Black body bug with yellow stripe?

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I think it may be a larder beetle - also known as Dermestes Lardarius.

What is the name of a person who studies bugs?

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An entomologist is a person who studies insects.

How do you protect tomatoes from stink bugs?

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At planting time, put a 6" cylindrical ring made from aluminum foil in ground and around the base of the plant. Make sure about 3'' of the ring stays above ground.

What is a great diving beetle a predator of?

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lizards and all different types of mammals

What plants do pill bugs eat?

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Pill bugs eat rotting vegetation such as vegetables, fruits, decomposing leaves and other parts of dead plants that have accumulated in damp areas on the ground. You can read more about them at the related link.

What are the insects that migrate through each fall?

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The insects that migrates through the fall is called the- well I don't know why would you ask me such a thing I'm only 12 you meenys

Can bug spray kill maggots?

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Will any spray kill maggots

Why is complete metamorphosis important?

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this way the adult fill a different niche then the larvae and so do not compete with them.

What would be an example of a microscopic insect?

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Mites and bedbugs

Does a praying mantis live in South Dakota?

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No, but meditating beetles do. They eat their mates as well!

Actually I live in south central Montana and just found a praying mantis in my yard this past weekend Aug-2012. I wonder if its the heat that brought them this far north??

What are tiny black insects looking like specs of soot with six legs segmented body two antennae and microscopic white hairs all over its body that appeared on my window sill this winter?

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Since no one else answered the question I was asking I will take a stab at it myself. I have had occasion to study them further and in greater detail. The first clue was the microscopic forked structure I observed on their underside attached to the3rd abdominal segment. I now know this to be the "furcula" and the mysterious bug to be a Poduromorpha variety of springtail. The furcula is the little structure that they use to jump with. The real clue was when I put some lemon oil onto the windowsill in an attempt to discourage them. As the little bugs encountered the oil they were observed exhibiting a hopping behavior. I then googled springtails and there they were. I guess my biology minor in college has come in handy after all.

Where do most house gnats hide?

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House gnats probably come from outside...... i think

generally they don't travel that far. look for rooms with the most activity and check for potential breeding sites, plants (fungus gnats), drains, plumbing leaks, dirty trash cans, etc.