An order of insects known as the Strepsiptera has eleven living families and 600 or so documented species. They live inside other insects like bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches as endoparasites. Most species’ females enter their hosts’ bodies and never leave them again, eventually dying inside the host. The early-stage larvae must find an […]
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The Meloidae family of beetles includes blister beetles, which get their name from the cantharidin they secrete as a form of defense. Worldwide, 7,500 species have been identified. Many are noticeable, and some are colored aposematically to alert potential predators to their toxicity. Habitat In the eastern and central parts of the country, blister beetles
Flying insects known as damselflies belong to the Odonata suborder Zygoptera. They are comparable to dragonflies, which belong to the Anisoptera suborder of odonata, but smaller and with a leaner body. In contrast to dragonflies, which maintain their wings flat and away from the body when at rest, the majority of species fold their wings
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) with fringed wings are tiny and slender insects. Thrips have distinctive asymmetrical mouthparts that are typically 1 mm (0.039 in) long or less in length. Although certain species of thrips are predators, most thrips species feed primarily on plants by puncturing the tissue and sucking up the contents. Entomologists have described Six
The insect phylum Dermaptera is composed of earwigs. They are one of the smaller insect orders, consisting of roughly 2,000 species in 12 families. They have distinctive cerci, a pair of forcep-like pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folded beneath short, rarely used as forewings. Some species lack the characteristic pincers and are tiny
Insects belonging to the Lepidoptera order, which also includes butterflies and moths. Lepidoptera, which make up 126 families and 46 superfamilies and have about 180,000 identified species. It belongs to one of the most common and well-known insect orders in the world. The Lepidoptera exhibit a wide range of variants on the fundamental body form
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The brown marmorated stink bug of Pentatomidae insect family, which is indigenous to China, Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia. It was discovered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in September $37 million worth of apple crops were destroyed in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in 2010, and some stone fruit growers saw crop losses
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A common family of tiny beetles, Coccinellidae ranges in size from 0.8 to 18 mm (0.03–0.7 in). In North America and Great Britain, they are referred to as ladybugs and ladybirds, respectively. Since they are not really bugs, some entomologists prefer to refer to them as lady beetles or ladybird beetles. Numerous creatures have aposematic
An insect of the ‘Odonata’ order is a dragonfly. The word “dragonfly” comes from the Greek words “anisoptera,” which means “wing,” and “v anisos,” which means “unequal” or “unlike,” because the hindwing is wider than the forewing. The primary distinction between them is that dragonflies have four wings whereas flies only have two. Damselflies and
Stoneflies are members of the insect order Plecoptera. Worldwide, 3,500 species have been described, and more are continually being found. The only continent where stoneflies are absent is Antarctica. The presence of Plecoptera in a stream or still body of water is typically a sign of good or exceptional water quality because all species of