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Insects
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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ladybug, moth and house fly/bee, bettle,ant ect. there are millions.
Can bugs crawl in your ear and eat your brain?
No. First, the brain and ears do not connect. Second, insects do not eat human brains.
NOTE: Parasites in the intestines can have eggs travel through the bloodstream and by that route get into the brain.
What should you do if your sister bugs you?
Brothers can usually make their sisters leave by engaging in discussions and behaviors that annoy them. Attempting to engage them in conversation on technical or sporting subjects will generally convince them to leave.
What are daddy long legs' predators?
Daddy-longlegs eat a wide variety of food. This includes spiders, insects, plant pests, dead insects, and bird droppings. In order to defend themselves, they produce a strong, distasteful odor.
Do ants chew and lick their food?
no they spit acid to dissolve the food and slurp the food like a human does with a milkshake.
How are insects different from other anthropods?
An arthropod is a member of either spiders, scorpions, insects, and other groups. Insects are arthropods and are those with 6 legs. Others like arachnids have 8 legs. There are many other differences but this is the most obvious.
a fly a has millions, even billions of cells, a single-celled organism would be a bacterium
What insects have 3 body parts?
can a butterfly see red,green,and yellow can a butterfly see red,green,and yellow
What is an insect that goes through incomplete metamorphosis?
I don't know too many insects that go through a complete metamorphosis, but I know that a fly, butterfly, moth, beetle, ants, bees, ladybugs and cockroach . Just a fun fact: about 88% of insects go through a complete metamorphosis.
Many insects eat garbage. Maggots, flies, ants, and roaches are the main insects that one finds eating their garbage.
Yes, gnats do urinate. If a gnat urinates on the skin it can irritate the skin and cause it to burn or itch.
How does insect pollination benefit the insect?
In holometabolous insects, larvae enjoy in only eating and growing, while adults are responsible for producing offspring and they don't eat much in some species. Pupal stage is the intermediate stage when all the transformation safely occur. Therefore, larvae and adults don't share food source, in another word, no food competition. And there is a division of labor, growing and reproduction separately. Living in different habitat is another amazing thing that only insect can do through metamorphosis. For instant, mosquito larvae live in the water, while adult can fly around and find blood meal. Imagine that, if human beings have the same ability as insects, then we will be able to swim like a fish and fly like a bird in our life.
What are the modification of insect legs?
Modification of insect legs in the morphological terms means changes according to the function required.
For example:
Insects have ambulatory legs having the most simple type of five major segments (coxa, trochanter, femur tibia and tarsus) for the most simple function i.e walking. Many other insects also have adapted their leg to perform other functions like cursorial for running present in cockroaches, raptorial for grasping prey these are prolegs of preying mantids have coxa very long and two rows of large spines on femur and tibia both, the femur have a groove between two spine rows in which tibia fits ,and natatorial meta legs of giant water bug have long hair on tarsus that help in swimming.
M. Fahim Khalid
University College of Agriculture,
Bahauddin Zakaria University,
Multan, Pakistan.
What insects have a nymph life cycle?
If what you mean is the number of life cycles, then there will be a lot of answers, one of which is a frog.
What color are poisonous insects?
The color depends upon the insect. For example, flies that pollinate night-blooming flowers tend to be attracted by pale colors or white. Many insects will be attracted to bright reds and yellows, with the bumblebee, as an example, preferring sky blue and sunset orange-red.
No, grasshoppers cannot spin webs. Spiders, considered arachnids and not insects like a grasshopper spin webs. Not all spiders spin webs, but those that do mainly use them to catch their food. There are other insects , like butterflies and silkworms, that produce a web-like substance. this substance is used to make their cocoons though, not to spin webs.
What insects do not have an exoskeleton?
Insects by definition have no backbones.
Instead of endoskeletons (bones within flesh, as have mammals, fish, etc) adult insects all have exoskeletons(hard shells surrounding flesh)
What is the phobia of stink bugs called?
The fear of bugs is called entomophobia. This can include the fear of bees, but not the fear of spiders, as spiders are not really bugs.
What do small ocean insects eat?
Many different insects eat different things. While most live off of dead plants and leaves, some eat dead animals and even crumbs of people food.
