Do insects comprise the largest group of animals?

Answer 1

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

).

Answer 2

First 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.

Answer 3

Nematodes are actually the most numerous creatures of earth. Scientist have found that these roundworms that cover almost every square inch of earth and seas.

Answer 4

they are the most abundant because they are the best adapted to the different weathers in the planet

Answer 5

they do it when they want to

Answer 6

no its wrong

Answer 7

Superlative