Post Views: 2,576 Insects are the only invertebrates that have acquired the ability to fly (place insects in the classification, read th article). Unlike other
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Agaonides wasps and fig trees: a history of mutualism
Post Views: 4,635 Insects and plants have maintained interdependent relationships since the appearance of flowering plants in the Cretaceous (145-65 million years) (read th article).
Mouth apparatus and feeding in insects: General
Post Views: 4,124 General description of different types of insect mouthparts adapted to diet Insects, present on earth for at least 479 million years (read
New Phylogeny of insect evolution established
Post Views: 2,181 A new international team of researchers has just established a new phylogeny* of insects that can trace the evolutionary history of different
Acoustic mimicry of butterflies in anthills
Post Views: 1,160 Discovery of an acoustic mimicry used by the caterpillars of a butterfly to deceive ants and obtain food and care essential to
Sexual attraction of male wings in flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
Post Views: 35,813 The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, although studied for nearly 100 years by scientists from around the world and all disciplines, the parameters
Metamorphosis in insects
Post Views: 2,685 Insects are arthropod invertebrates consisting of an external skeleton (cuticle or exoskeleton) that they must change regularly to grow. For more information,
Moulting in insects
Post Views: 2,140 As it is recalled here, the insects, belonging to the group of Arthropods, consist of an external skeleton (exoskeleton or cuticle) rigid
What is an insect? Definition
Post Views: 2,988 The question that comes up when talking about Entomology and insects, is”What is an insect?“. Not all the little animals around us
Parthenogenesis
Post Views: 3,209 Parthenogenesis Parthenogenesis is a mode of reproduction without fertilization of the female gamete by a male gamete, without contribution of genetic material.
