In this activity, students will familiarize themselves with the distinguishing physical characteristics of an insect’s anatomy. Students will observe and maintain live crickets to learn the function ...

Principal disadvantage of most of the recent approaches to reconstructions of the insect evolution is due to comparison of the species by formal character sets with unknown functional relations. This ...

Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly ...

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to researchers. They hope to borrow the tricks of this piece of ...

The serious bug collector will tell you that no entomological compendium is ever truly complete. Even the most vivid color-wheels of butterflies are missing something—often many somethings—either ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 89, No. 12 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1867-1883 (17 pages) The floral structure of Alliaceae is assessed in relation to the systematics of the family, especially the nature of ...

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Insects outnumber us 200 million to one. They thrive in environments where humans wouldn’t last minutes. We mostly perceive them as pests - yet without bugs, entire ecosystems would collapse, crops ...