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Insects are not a species. Insects are are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum. That is like asking if mammals are the most numerous species. Your question needs to be refined. Are you asking if insects are the most numerous class of animal? Most numerous species of living thing? Or perhaps you are thinking of a specific species such as monarch butterfly (Danaus
plexippus
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Queenie Botsford
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∙ 15y agoFirst of all, "insect" is not a "species", it is a classification that includes more than a million (known) species, and it is generally believed that there are many more yet to be discovered.
However, this is "three times" the number of all other types of animal species put together. So if the question is taken to be about "number of species", the answer is yes.
However, it's likely the asker is interested in "number of insects". This question could be more clearly stated as, "Are insects more numerous than any other type of animal?". This becomes a lot more difficult to answer, both because of the need to determine what other groups of animals to compare to, and then the difficulty of estimating the population of that group.
The Entomological Society of America claims insects are "1.6 billion" times as numerous as humans. With just over 6 billion humans, that works out to about 10^19 insects.
That may sound like a lot, but there are many small life-forms that could be more numerous. For example, in soil the insects and mites (a type of arachnid, not an insect) all feed either directly or indirectly off various types of nematodes (a tiny worm, which also is not an insect). Nematodes are animals, and "often outnumber other animals" in many environments so they may be the most numerous animal.
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∙ 9y agoNematodes are actually the most numerous creatures of earth. Scientist have found that these roundworms that cover almost every square inch of earth and seas.
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∙ 13y agothey are the most abundant because they are the best adapted to the different weathers in the planet
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∙ 13y agothey do it when they want to
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∙ 11y agono its wrong
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Which group forms the largest group of animals?
Insects.
What is the largest group of arthropods?
Insects are the largest group of arthropods.
Which group of animals are largest and most diverse of all animals and have segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton?
Insects.
Which group of animals are the largest and most diverse of all animals and have segmented bodies supported by and exoskeleton?
Insects.
What the largest group of animals?
Insects. There are millions of species that have yet to be discovered, and everyday we are discovering more.
Which group of animals have the most members?
Kingdom is the largest group in this series: kingdom Phylum, class Order Family Genus Species
Are insects the largest group of animals on the Earth?
Yes, it has hundreds of billions of different kinds, including the same species.
Animal group to which insects belongs?
Insects belong to the group anthropoda which is a group in the animalia. But insects are not called animals. Insects don't belong to an animal group. They aren't animals. That's y they R called insects.
What is a large group of insects?
Beetles (order Coleoptera) are the largest group of insects, and are the largest group of any animal species. The 250,000 species of beetles account for 1/4 of all living animals.
What is the least diverse group of animals?
The least diverse group of animals is Insects.
What is the largest group of invertebrates called?
insects
Which group of animals has an exoskelet on?
Insects
