All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton ...
There is almost no food available at this time of year and insects generally do not eat during their hibernation. Winter can last for months, so insects have evolved two strategies: gain additional ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Humans might have built civilizations, but insects own the world. After all, over half of all known species are insects. So if they all suddenly ...
You might assume that insects do not survive the seasonal shift. After all, temperatures are too low for them to forage and the plants or other insects they'd eat are scarce anyway. But that is ...
Stick insects keep evolving to have the same strange ... The same body types keep popping up all across the planet because many stick insect lineages have colonized similar environments and ...
Despite spending nearly 90 per cent of our lives under a roof, we know next to nothing about all the life that lives with us — insects: the most successful creatures on earth. In The Great Wild ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Humans might have built civilizations, but insects own the world. After all, over half of all known species are insects. So if they all suddenly vanished ...
"This is the first study that looked into the total biomass of flying insects and it confirms our worries.'' The study is based on measurements of the biomass of all insects trapped at 63 nature ...
Where are all the stick insects? (7 min 34 sec) If anyone will find out, it is likely to be Merien - she did her PhD in finding out whether stick insects look like sticks to other species.