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468 relations: Abdomen, Adult, Aedeagus, Allomone, Amnion, Amphiesmenoptera, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greek, Animal, Animal navigation, Annual Review of Entomology, Ant, Antenna (biology), Aparaglossata, Aphid, Aposematism, Aptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Apterygota, Aquatic insect, Arachnocampa, Archaeognatha, Aristotle, Armadillidiidae, Arrernte language, Artery, Arthropod, Arthropod exoskeleton, Arthropod leg, Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Bat, Batesian mimicry, Bee, Bee learning and communication, Beetle, Biological pest control, Biological specificity, Bioluminescence, BioMetals (journal), Biorefinery, Bird, Blattodea, Blood, Blood cell, Bombus terrestris, Bombyx mori, Boreal ecosystem, Boreus hyemalis, Brevisana brevis, Buccal space, ... Expand index (418 more) »
- Entomology
- Extant Early Devonian first appearances
- Insects
Abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.
Adult
An adult is a human or other animal that has reached full growth.
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Aedeagus
An aedeagus (aedeagi) is a reproductive organ of male arthropods through which they secrete sperm from the testes during copulation with a female.
Allomone
An allomone (from Ancient Greek ἄλλος allos "other" and pheromone) is a type of semiochemical produced and released by an individual of one species that affects the behaviour of a member of another species to the benefit of the originator but not the receiver.
Amnion
The amnion (amnions or amnia) is a membrane that closely covers human and various other embryos when they first form.
Amphiesmenoptera
Amphiesmenoptera is an insect superorder, established by S. G. Kiriakoff, but often credited to Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies).
See Insect and Amphiesmenoptera
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Animal navigation
Animal navigation is the ability of many animals to find their way accurately without maps or instruments.
See Insect and Animal navigation
Annual Review of Entomology
The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.
See Insect and Annual Review of Entomology
Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
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Antenna (biology)
Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.
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Aparaglossata
Aparaglossata is a clade of insects comprising all modern holometabolous insects except for Hymenoptera.
Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
See Insect and Aphid
Aposematism
Aposematism is the advertising by an animal, whether terrestrial or marine, to potential predators that it is not worth attacking or eating.
Aptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
See Insect and Aptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
Apterygota
The name Apterygota is sometimes applied to a former subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present and in their evolutionary history; notable examples are the silverfish, the firebrat, and the jumping bristletails.
Aquatic insect
Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water.
Arachnocampa
Arachnocampa is a genus of nine fungus gnat species which have a bioluminescent larval stage, akin to the larval stage of glowworm beetles.
Archaeognatha
The Archaeognatha are an order of apterygotes, known by various common names such as jumping bristletails.
Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Armadillidiidae
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.
See Insect and Armadillidiidae
Arrernte language
Arrernte or Aranda, or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte (Upper Aranda), is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory, Australia, by the Arrernte people.
See Insect and Arrernte language
Artery
An artery is a blood vessel in humans and most other animals that takes oxygenated blood away from the heart in the systemic circulation to one or more parts of the body.
Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Arthropod exoskeleton
Arthropods are covered with a tough, resilient integument, cuticle or exoskeleton of chitin.
See Insect and Arthropod exoskeleton
Arthropod leg
The arthropod leg is a form of jointed appendage of arthropods, usually used for walking.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Biological Resources Study
Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) is a project undertaken by the Parks Australia Division of Australia's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
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Bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.
See Insect and Bat
Batesian mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both.
See Insect and Batesian mimicry
Bee
Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.
See Insect and Bee
Bee learning and communication
Bee learning and communication includes cognitive and sensory processes in all kinds of bees, that is the insects in the seven families making up the clade Anthophila.
See Insect and Bee learning and communication
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.
Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
See Insect and Biological pest control
Biological specificity
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
See Insect and Biological specificity
Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms.
See Insect and Bioluminescence
BioMetals (journal)
BioMetals is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the role of metal ions in biological systems.
See Insect and BioMetals (journal)
Biorefinery
A biorefinery is a refinery that converts biomass to energy and other beneficial byproducts (such as chemicals).
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
See Insect and Bird
Blattodea
Blattodea is an order of insects that contains cockroaches and termites.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
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Blood cell
A blood cell (also called a hematopoietic cell, hemocyte, or hematocyte) is a cell produced through hematopoiesis and found mainly in the blood.
Bombus terrestris
Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee, is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe.
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Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori, commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae.
Boreal ecosystem
A boreal ecosystem is an ecosystem with a subarctic climate located in the Northern Hemisphere, approximately between 50° and 70°N latitude.
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Boreus hyemalis
Boreus hyemalis is an insect, 3 to 4.5 millimetres long from the family of Boreidae.
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Brevisana brevis
Brevisana brevis, known as the shrill thorntree cicada, is a cicada found in Africa and is the loudest insect on record.
See Insect and Brevisana brevis
Buccal space
The buccal space (also termed the buccinator space) is a fascial space of the head and neck (sometimes also termed fascial tissue spaces or tissue spaces).
Bumblebee
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.
Butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.
Caddisfly
The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.
Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
Campaniform sensilla
Campaniform sensilla are a class of mechanoreceptors found in insects, which respond to local stress and strain within the animal's cuticle.
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Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic is Earth's current geological era, representing the last 66million years of Earth's history.
Centipede
Centipedes (from Neo-Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek χεῖλος, kheilos, "lip", and Neo-Latin suffix -poda, "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which includes millipedes and other multi-legged animals.
Chemical communication in insects
Chemical communication in insects is social signalling between insects of the same or different species, using chemicals.
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Chemoreceptor
A chemoreceptor, also known as chemosensor, is a specialized sensory receptor which transduces a chemical substance (endogenous or induced) to generate a biological signal.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
Chorion
The chorion is the outermost fetal membrane around the embryo in mammals, birds and reptiles (amniotes).
Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
Cicada
The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea, of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs).
Cimex
Cimex is a genus of insects in the family Cimicidae.
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Circulatory system
The circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body of a human or other vertebrate.
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Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
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Class (biology)
In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.
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Click beetle
Elateridae or click beetles (or "typical click beetles" to distinguish them from the related families Cerophytidae and Eucnemidae, which are also capable of clicking) are a family of beetles.
Coccinellidae
Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles.
Cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago.
Coevolution
In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press was founded in 1933 to aid in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge.
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Coleoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
See Insect and Coleoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
Coleopterida
Coleopterida is a superorder of insects consisting of the orders Coleoptera and Strepsiptera.
Colony (biology)
In biology, a colony is composed of two or more conspecific individuals living in close association with, or connected to, one another.
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Compound eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. Insect and compound eye are entomology.
Coreidae
Coreidae is a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera.
Corixidae
Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Cricket (insect)
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.
See Insect and Cricket (insect)
Crop (anatomy)
The crop (also the croup, the craw, the ingluvies, and the sublingual pouch) is a thin-walled, expanded portion of the alimentary tract, which is used for the storage of food before digestion.
Cuticle
A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection.
Death's-head hawkmoth
The name death's-head hawkmoth refers to any of three moth species of the genus Acherontia (Acherontia atropos, Acherontia styx and Acherontia lachesis).
See Insect and Death's-head hawkmoth
Decibel
The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B).
Decline in insect populations
Insects are the most numerous and widespread class in the animal kingdom, accounting for up to 90% of all animal species. Insect and Decline in insect populations are entomology.
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Deep frying
Deep frying (also referred to as deep fat frying) is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, traditionally lard but today most commonly oil, as opposed to the shallow frying used in conventional frying done in a frying pan.
Defense in insects
Insects have a wide variety of predators, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, carnivorous plants, and other arthropods.
See Insect and Defense in insects
Delicacy
A delicacy is a rare food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated, or peculiarly distinctive within a given culture or region.
Desert locust
The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae.
Desiccation
Desiccation is the state of extreme dryness, or the process of extreme drying.
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Dicondylia
The Dicondylia are a taxonomic group (taxon) that includes all insects except the jumping bristletails (Archaeognatha).
Dictyoptera
Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον diktyon "net" and πτερόν pteron "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together) and the order Mantodea (mantises).
Diffusion
Diffusion is the net movement of anything (for example, atoms, ions, molecules, energy) generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.
Digestive enzyme
Digestive enzymes take part in the chemical process of digestion, which follows the mechanical process of digestion.
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Diploptera
Diploptera, occasionally called beetle cockroaches, is a genus of blaberid cockroaches in the monotypic subfamily Diplopterinae.
Diplura
The order Diplura ("two-pronged bristletails") is one of three orders of non-insect hexapods within the class Entognatha (alongside Collembola (springtails) and Protura).
Diptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Discontinuous gas exchange
Discontinuous gas-exchange cycles (DGC), also called discontinuous ventilation or discontinuous ventilatory cycles, follow one of several patterns of arthropod gas exchange that have been documented primarily in insects; they occur when the insect is at rest.
See Insect and Discontinuous gas exchange
Disease vector
In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism.
DNA replication
In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.
See Insect and DNA replication
Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.
See Insect and Drosophila melanogaster
Earwig
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera.
Ecdysis
Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
See Insect and Egg
Embioptera
The order Embioptera, commonly known as webspinners or footspinners, are a small group of mostly tropical and subtropical insects, classified under the subclass Pterygota.
Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Entognatha
The Entognatha are a class of wingless and ametabolous arthropods, which, together with the insects, makes up the subphylum Hexapoda.
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. Insect and Entomology are insects.
Entomophagy
Entomophagy (from Greek ἔντομον éntomon, 'insect', and φαγεῖν phagein, 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects.
Entomophily
Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects.
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
Epidermis
The epidermis is the outermost of the three layers that comprise the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis.
Epistasis
Epistasis is a phenomenon in genetics in which the effect of a gene mutation is dependent on the presence or absence of mutations in one or more other genes, respectively termed modifier genes.
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.
Esophagus
The esophagus (American English) or oesophagus (British English, see spelling differences; both;: (o)esophagi or (o)esophaguses), colloquially known also as the food pipe, food tube, or gullet, is an organ in vertebrates through which food passes, aided by peristaltic contractions, from the pharynx to the stomach.
Euglossa dilemma
Euglossa dilemma, the green orchid bee or dilemma orchid bee, is a species of solitary euglossine bee native to a broad area of Central America, and recently introduced to Florida in the United States.
See Insect and Euglossa dilemma
Eukaryote
The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.
Eumetabola
Eumetabola is an unranked clade of Neoptera.
Eusociality
Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary developmental biology (informally, evo-devo) is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer how developmental processes evolved.
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Evolutionary radiation
An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
Fatty alcohol
Fatty alcohols (or long-chain alcohols) are usually high-molecular-weight, straight-chain primary alcohols, but can also range from as few as 4–6 carbons to as many as 22–26, derived from natural fats and oils.
Fecundity
Fecundity is defined in two ways; in human demography, it is the potential for reproduction of a recorded population as opposed to a sole organism, while in population biology, it is considered similar to fertility, the natural capability to produce offspring, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
Fertilisation
Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a zygote and initiate its development into a new individual organism or offspring.
Firefly
The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,000 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or glowworms for their conspicuous production of light, mainly during twilight, to attract mates. Light production in the Lampyridae is thought to have originated as a warning signal that the larvae were distasteful.
Flea
Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds.
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Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
See Insect and Fly
Flying and gliding animals
A number of animals are capable of aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding.
See Insect and Flying and gliding animals
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
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Foregut
The foregut in humans is the anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the distal esophagus to the first half of the duodenum, at the entrance of the bile duct.
Frequency
Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. Insect and fungus are extant Early Devonian first appearances.
Ganglion
A ganglion (ganglia) is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system.
Gangrene
Gangrene is a type of tissue death caused by a lack of blood supply.
Gastrointestinal tract
The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.
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Genes & Development
Genes & Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering molecular biology, molecular genetics, cell biology, and development.
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Genetic linkage
Genetic linkage is the tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be inherited together during the meiosis phase of sexual reproduction.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
Genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.
Genome project
Genome projects are scientific endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus) and to annotate protein-coding genes and other important genome-encoded features.
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
Gerridae
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water skeeters, water scooters, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, water gliders, water skimmers or puddle flies.
Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.
Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.
Great chain of being
The great chain of being is a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought by medieval Christianity to have been decreed by God.
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Great diving beetle
The great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) is an aquatic diving beetle native to Europe and northern Asia, and in the UK is common in Wales, much of England and southern Scotland but less common on chalk and in the far north.
See Insect and Great diving beetle
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.
Grylloblattidae
Grylloblattidae, commonly known as the icebugs or ice crawlers, is a family of extremophile (psychrophile) and wingless insects that live in the cold on top of mountains and the edges of glaciers.
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Gyne
The gyne (from Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites).
See Insect and Gyne
Halobates
Halobates or sea skaters are a genus with over 40 species of water striders.
Haplodiploidy
Haplodiploidy is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Head louse
The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is an obligate ectoparasite of humans.
Hearing range
Hearing range describes the frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels.
Hedylidae
Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, representing the superfamily Hedyloidea.
Heliconius
Heliconius comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians.
Helicoverpa zea
Helicoverpa zea, commonly known as the corn earworm, is a species (formerly in the genus Heliothis) in the family Noctuidae.
See Insect and Helicoverpa zea
Hematophagy
Hematophagy (sometimes spelled haematophagy or hematophagia) is the practice by certain animals of feeding on blood (from the Greek words αἷμα haima "blood" and φαγεῖν phagein "to eat").
Hemimetabolism
Hemimetabolism or hemimetaboly, also called partial metamorphosis and paurometabolism,McGavin, George C. Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction.
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Hemiptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Hemolymph
Hemolymph, or haemolymph, is a fluid, analogous to the blood in vertebrates, that circulates in the interior of the arthropod (invertebrate) body, remaining in direct contact with the animal's tissues.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Hermaphrodite
A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes.
Hermetia illucens
Hermetia illucens, the black soldier fly, is a common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
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Heterochrony
In evolutionary developmental biology, heterochrony is any genetically controlled difference in the timing, rate, or duration of a developmental process in an organism compared to its ancestors or other organisms.
Hexapoda
The subphylum Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') or hexapods comprises the largest clade of arthropods and includes most of the extant arthropod species. Insect and hexapoda are extant Early Devonian first appearances.
Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species.
Hindgut
The hindgut (or epigaster) is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal.
Holometabola
Holometabola (from Ancient Greek "complete" + "change"), also known as Endopterygota (from "inner" + "wing" + Neo-Latin "-having"), is a superorder of insects within the infraclass Neoptera that go through distinctive larval, pupal, and adult stages.
Holometabolism
Holometabolism, also called complete metamorphosis, is a form of insect development which includes four life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and imago (or adult).
Honey
Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees.
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Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
Housefly
The housefly (Musca domestica) is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha.
Hoverfly
Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family Syrphidae.
Human genome
The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, encoded as DNA within the 23 chromosome pairs in cell nuclei and in a small DNA molecule found within individual mitochondria.
Human interactions with insects
Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
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Hygroreception
Hygroreception is the ability to detect changes in the moisture and humidity content of an environment.
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants.
Hymenoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Hypermetamorphosis
Hypermetamorphosis, or heteromorphosis, is a term used mainly in entomology; it refers to a class of variants of holometabolism, that is to say, complete insect metamorphosis.
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Imago
In biology, the imago (Latin for "image") is the last stage an insect attains during its metamorphosis, its process of growth and development; it is also called the imaginal stage ("imaginal" being "imago" in adjective form), the stage in which the insect attains maturity.
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Infrared
Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.
Insect biodiversity
Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described are classified as insects.
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Insect flight
Insects are the only group of invertebrates that have evolved wings and flight.
Insect migration
Insect migration is the seasonal movement of insects, particularly those by species of dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths.
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Insect morphology
Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. Insect and insect morphology are insects.
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Insect mouthparts
Insects have mouthparts that may vary greatly across insect species, as they are adapted to particular modes of feeding.
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Insect olfaction
Insect olfaction refers to the function of chemical receptors that enable insects to detect and identify volatile compounds for foraging, predator avoidance, finding mating partners (via pheromones) and locating oviposition habitats.
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Insect pheromones
Insect pheromones are neurotransmitters that serve the chemical communication between individuals of an insect species. Insect and insect pheromones are insects.
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Insect reproductive system
Most insects reproduce oviparously, i.e. by laying eggs.
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Insect wing
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly.
Insecta in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae of 1758–1759, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Insecticide
Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.
Insects as feed
Insects as feed are insect species used as animal feed, either for livestock, including aquaculture, or as pet food.
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Instar
An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.
Integrated pest management
Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) is a broad-based approach that integrates both chemical and non-chemical practices for economic control of pests.
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Intromittent organ
An intromittent organ is any external organ of a male organism that is specialized to deliver sperm during copulation.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
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Jet stream
Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of the Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
The Journal of the Royal Society Interface is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences, including chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics, and physics.
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Journal of World History
The Journal of World History is a peer-reviewed academic journal that presents historical analysis from a global point of view, focusing especially on forces that cross the boundaries of cultures and civilizations, including large-scale population movements, economic fluctuations, transfers of technology, the spread of infectious diseases, long-distance trade, and the spread of religious faiths, ideas, and values.
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Kairomone
A kairomone (a coinage using the Greek καιρός opportune moment, paralleling pheromone"kairomone, n.". OED Online. September 2012. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/241005?redirectedFrom.
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (–) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer.
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Lacquer
Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Le Règne Animal
Le Règne Animal is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
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Leading edge
The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air;Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 305.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
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Leaf beetle
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families.
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects that includes butterflies and moths.
Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Leverhulmia
Leverhulmia is an extinct genus of arthropod, known from a single partial specimen with preserved gut contents, found in the Windyfield (Rhynie) chert.
Lift (force)
When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object.
Light
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.
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List of diseases spread by arthropods
Arthropods are common vectors of disease.
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Locust
Locusts (derived from the Latin locusta, locust or lobster) are various species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase.
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Louse
Louse (lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects.
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Lung
The lungs are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals, including tetrapods, some snails and a small number of fish.
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Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies.
Madagascar hissing cockroach
The Madagascar hissing cockroach (Gromphadorhina portentosa), also known as the hissing cockroach or simply hisser, is one of the largest species of cockroach, reaching at maturity.
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Maggot
A maggot is the larva of a fly (order Diptera); it is applied in particular to the larvae of Brachycera flies, such as houseflies, cheese flies, and blowflies, rather than larvae of the Nematocera, such as mosquitoes and crane flies.
Maggot farming
Maggot farming is the act of growing maggots for industry.
Maggot therapy
Maggot therapy (also known as larval therapy) is a type of biotherapy involving the introduction of live, disinfected maggots (fly larvae) into non-healing skin and soft-tissue wounds of a human or other animal for the purpose of cleaning out the necrotic (dead) tissue within a wound (debridement), and disinfection.
Magnetoreception
Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field.
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Maimetshidae
Maimetshidae is an extinct family of wasps, known from the Cretaceous period.
Male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.
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Mallophaga
The Mallophaga are a possibly paraphyletic section of lice, known as chewing lice, biting lice, or bird lice, containing more than 3000 species.
Malpighian tubule system
The Malpighian tubule system is a type of excretory and osmoregulatory system found in some insects, myriapods, arachnids and tardigrades.
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Mandible (insect mouthpart)
Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure).
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Mantis
Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families.
Mantophasmatidae
Mantophasmatidae is a family of carnivorous wingless insects within the monotypic order Mantophasmatodea, which was discovered in Africa in 2001.
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Marangoni effect
The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two phases due to a gradient of the surface tension.
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Mass provisioning
Mass provisioning is a form of parental investment in which an adult insect, most commonly a hymenopteran such as a bee or wasp, stocks all the food for each of her offspring in a small chamber (a "cell") before she lays the egg.
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Mayfly
Mayflies (also known as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern United States, as Canadian soldiers in the American Great Lakes region, and as up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.
Müllerian mimicry
Müllerian mimicry is a natural phenomenon in which two or more well-defended species, often foul-tasting and sharing common predators, have come to mimic each other's honest warning signals, to their mutual benefit.
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Mealworm
Mealworms are the larval form of the yellow mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor, a species of darkling beetle.
Mecoptera
Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos.
Megaloptera
Megaloptera is an order of insects.
Meganeura
Meganeura is a genus of extinct insects from the Late Carboniferous (approximately 300 million years ago).
Meganisoptera
Meganisoptera is an extinct order of large dragonfly-like insects, informally known as griffenflies or (incorrectly) as giant dragonflies.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
Mesothorax
The mesothorax is the middle of the three segments of the thorax of hexapods, and bears the second pair of legs.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
Metathorax
The metathorax is the posterior of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the third pair of legs.
Microvillus
Microvilli (microvillus) are microscopic cellular membrane protrusions that increase the surface area for diffusion and minimize any increase in volume, and are involved in a wide variety of functions, including absorption, secretion, cellular adhesion, and mechanotransduction.
Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Millipede
Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature.
Mimicry
In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.
Mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).
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Model organism
A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.
Molecular clock
The molecular clock is a figurative term for a technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.
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Monarch butterfly
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae.
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Monarch butterfly migration
Monarch butterfly migration is the phenomenon, mainly across North America, where the subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus migrates each autumn to overwintering sites on the West Coast of California or mountainous sites in Central Mexico.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Mosquito
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species.
Mosquito-borne disease
Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes.
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Moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies.
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Moulting
In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
Mound-building termites
Mound-building termites are a group of termite species that live in mounds which are made of a combination of soil, termite saliva and dung.
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Mutualism (biology)
Mutualism describes the ecological interaction between two or more species where each species has a net benefit.
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Mycetophilidae
Mycetophilidae is a family of small flies, forming the bulk of those species known as fungus gnats.
Myrmecophily
Myrmecophily is the term applied to positive interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms, such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi.
Nasutitermes triodiae
Nasutitermes triodiae, also known as the cathedral termite, is a grass-eating species of Nasutitermitinae termite that can be found in Northern Territory, Australia.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Neoptera
Neoptera (Ancient Greek néos ("new") + pterón ("wing")) is a classification group that includes most orders of the winged insects, specifically those that can flex their wings over their abdomens.
Neoteny
Neoteny, also called juvenilization,Montagu, A. (1989).
Nervous system
In biology, the nervous system is the highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body.
Neuroptera
The insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantisflies, antlions, and their relatives.
Neuroptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, Carl Linnaeus classified the arthropods, including insects, arachnids and crustaceans, among his class "Insecta".
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Neuropterida
The Neuropterida are a clade, sometimes placed at superorder level, of holometabolous insects with over 5,700 described species, containing the orders Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions), Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies), and Raphidioptera (snakeflies).
Nezara viridula
Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug.
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Notum
The notum (plural nota) is the dorsal portion of an insect's thoracic segment, or the dorsal surface of the body of nudibranch gastropods.
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Nutrition
Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.
Nymph (biology)
In biology, a nymph (from Ancient Greek νύμφα nūmphē meaning "bride") is the juvenile form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage.
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Obligate parasite
An obligate parasite or holoparasite is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life-cycle without exploiting a suitable host.
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Odonata
Odonata is an order of predatory flying insects that includes the dragonflies and damselflies.
Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Ootheca
An ootheca (oothecae) is a type of egg capsule made by any member of a variety of species including mollusks (such as Turbinella laevigata), mantises, and cockroaches.
Opiliones
The Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) are an order of arachnids, colloquially known as harvestmen, harvesters, harvest spiders, or daddy longlegs. Insect and Opiliones are extant Early Devonian first appearances.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Organism
An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.
Orthoptera
Orthoptera is an order of insects that comprises the grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and wētā.
Ovariole
An ovariole is a tubular component of the insect ovary, and the basic unit of egg production.
Ovary
The ovary is a gonad in the female reproductive system that produces ova.
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Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.
Ovoviviparity
Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, ovivipary, or aplacental viviparity is a term used as a "bridging" form of reproduction between egg-laying oviparous and live-bearing viviparous reproduction.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pacific Community
The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories around the Pacific Ocean.
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Palaeoptera
The name Palaeoptera (from Greek ('old') + ('wing')) has been traditionally applied to those ancestral groups of winged insects (most of them extinct) that lacked the ability to fold the wings back over the abdomen as characterizes the Neoptera.
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
Panorpida
Panorpida or Mecopterida is a proposed superorder of Holometabola.
Paraneoptera
Paraneoptera or Acercaria is a superorder of insects which includes lice (bark lice and true lice), thrips, and hemipterans, the true bugs.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Parasitoid wasp
Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita.
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Parental care
Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring.
Parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis (from the Greek παρθένος|translit.
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Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
Pentatomoidea
The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera.
Peristalsis
Peristalsis is a type of intestinal motility, characterized by radially symmetrical contraction and relaxation of muscles that propagate in a wave down a tube, in an anterograde direction.
Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.
Pest (organism)
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns.
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Pet
A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal.
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Phasmatodea
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or bug sticks.
Phengodidae
The beetle family Phengodidae is known also as glowworm beetles, whose larvae are known as glowworms.
Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
Philemon Holland
Philemon Holland (1552 – 9 February 1637) was an English schoolmaster, physician and translator.
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Philopatry
Philopatry is the tendency of an organism to stay in or habitually return to a particular area.
Philosophie zoologique
Philosophie Zoologique ("Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution, part of which is now known as Lamarckism.
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Phloem
Phloem is the living tissue in vascular plants that transports the soluble organic compounds made during photosynthesis and known as photosynthates, in particular the sugar sucrose, to the rest of the plant.
Photinus (beetle)
The rover fireflies (Photinus) are a genus of fireflies (family Lampyridae).
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Photuris
Photuris is a genus of fireflies (beetles of the family Lampyridae).
Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
Phylum
In biology, a phylum (phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
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Plant defense against herbivory
Plant defense against herbivory or host-plant resistance (HPR) is a range of adaptations evolved by plants which improve their survival and reproduction by reducing the impact of herbivores.
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Plecoptera
Plecoptera is an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies.
Pleuron (insect anatomy)
The pleuron (pl. pleura, from Greek side, rib) is a lateral sclerite of thoracic segment of an insect between the tergum and the sternum.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
PLOS Biology
PLOS Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of biology.
Polarization (waves)
italics (also italics) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.
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Pollen
Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.
Pollination
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds.
Pollination syndrome
Pollination syndromes are suites of flower traits that have evolved in response to natural selection imposed by different pollen vectors, which can be abiotic (wind and water) or biotic, such as birds, bees, flies, and so forth through a process called pollinator-mediated selection.
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Polyembryony
Polyembryony is the phenomenon of two or more embryos developing from a single fertilized egg.
Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.
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Polyneoptera
The cohort Polyneoptera is one of the major groups of winged insects, comprising the Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, etc.) and all other neopteran insects believed to be more closely related to Orthoptera than to any other insect orders.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Prevailing winds
In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Proprioception
Proprioception is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position.
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Prothorax
The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs.
Protura
The Protura, or proturans, and sometimes nicknamed coneheads, are very small (0.6–1.5mm long), soil-dwelling animals, so inconspicuous they were not noticed until the 20th century.
Psocodea
Psocodea is a taxonomic group of insects comprising the bark lice, book lice and parasitic lice.
Psocoptera
Psocoptera are a paraphyletic group of insects that are commonly known as booklice, barklice or barkflies.
Pterygota
The Pterygota (winged) are a subclass of insects that includes all winged insects and the orders that are secondarily wingless (that is, insect groups whose ancestors once had wings but that have lost them as a result of subsequent evolution).
Pupa
A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.
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Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
Respiratory system of insects
An insect's respiratory system is the system with which it introduces respiratory gases to its interior and performs gas exchange.
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Rhaphidophoridae
The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae of the suborder Ensifera has a worldwide distribution.
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Rhynie chert
The Rhynie chert is a Lower Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil detail or completeness (a Lagerstätte).
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
Rove beetle
The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed.
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Salivary gland
The salivary glands in many vertebrates including mammals are exocrine glands that produce saliva through a system of ducts.
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles.
Scavenger
Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.
Schwarziana quadripunctata
Schwarziana quadripunctata is a small, stingless bee found in a stretch of the South American Amazon from Goiás, Brazil, through Paraguay, to Misiones, Argentina.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Sclerite
A sclerite (Greek σκληρός, sklēros, meaning "hard") is a hardened body part.
Sclerotin
Sclerotin is a component of the cuticle of various Arthropoda, most familiarly insects.
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
Segmentation (biology)
Segmentation in biology is the division of some animal and plant body plans into a linear series of repetitive segments that may or may not be interconnected to each other.
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Semiochemical
A semiochemical, from the Greek σημεῖον (semeion), meaning "signal", is a chemical substance or mixture released by an organism that affects the behaviors of other individuals.
Sense of smell
The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.
Sensillum
A sensillum (plural sensilla) is an arthropod sensory organ protruding from the cuticle of exoskeleton, or sometimes lying within or beneath it.
Serous membrane
The serous membrane (or serosa) is a smooth tissue membrane of mesothelium lining the contents and inner walls of body cavities, which secrete serous fluid to allow lubricated sliding movements between opposing surfaces.
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Sex-determination system
A sex-determination system is a biological system that determines the development of sexual characteristics in an organism.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Sexual reproduction
Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote that develops into an organism composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes (diploid).
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
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Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
Simple eye in invertebrates
A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.
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Snakefly
Snakeflies are a group of predatory insects comprising the order Raphidioptera with two extant families: Raphidiidae and Inocelliidae, consisting of roughly 260 species.
Snow scorpionfly
Boreidae, commonly called snow scorpionflies, or in the British Isles, snow fleas (no relation to the snow flea Hypogastrura nivicola) are a very small family of scorpionflies, containing only around 30 species, all of which are boreal or high-altitude species in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Spermatheca
The spermatheca (pronounced: spermathecae), also called receptaculum seminis (receptacula seminis), is an organ of the female reproductive tract in insects, e.g. ants, bees, some molluscs, Oligochaeta worms and certain other invertebrates and vertebrates.
Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as "hornworms"; it includes about 1,450 species.
Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
Spiracle (arthropods)
A spiracle or stigma is the opening in the exoskeletons of insects, myriapods, velvet worms and many arachnids to allow air to enter the trachea.
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Spontaneous generation
Spontaneous generation is a superseded scientific theory that held that living creatures could arise from nonliving matter and that such processes were commonplace and regular.
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Springtail
Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects (the other two are the Protura and Diplura). Insect and Springtail are extant Early Devonian first appearances.
Stanford University Press
Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.
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Stenus
Stenus is a genus of semiaquatic rove beetles in the subfamily Steninae, and one of the largest genera in the kingdom Animalia, with some 3100 known species worldwide (only the beetle genus Agrilus is comparable in size).
Stinger
A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal.
Stomach
The stomach is a muscular, hollow organ in the upper gastrointestinal tract of humans and many other animals, including several invertebrates.
Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species.
Stridulation
Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts.
Suboesophageal ganglion
The suboesophageal ganglion (acronym: SOG; synonym: subesophageal ganglion) of arthropods and in particular insects is part of the arthropod central nervous system (CNS).
See Insect and Suboesophageal ganglion
Sucking louse
Sucking lice (Anoplura, formerly known as Siphunculata) have around 500 species and represent the smaller of the two traditional superfamilies of lice.
Superorganism
A superorganism, or supraorganism, is a group of synergetically-interacting organisms of the same species.
Supraesophageal ganglion
The supraesophageal ganglion (also "supraoesophageal ganglion", "arthropod brain" or "microbrain") is the first part of the arthropod, especially insect, central nervous system.
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Surfactant
Surfactants are chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or a liquid and a solid.
Survival skills
Survival skills are techniques used to sustain life in any type of natural environment or built environment.
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Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Systematics
Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.
Taboo
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.
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Tagma (biology)
In biology, a tagma (Greek: τάγμα,: tagmata – τάγματα - body of soldiers; battalion) is a specialized grouping of multiple segments or metameres into a coherently functional morphological unit.
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Taste
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor).
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Taxon (journal)
Taxon is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plant taxonomy.
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Taxonomic sequence
Taxonomic sequence (also known as systematic, phyletic or taxonomic order) is a sequence followed in listing of taxa which aids ease of use and roughly reflects the evolutionary relationships among the taxa.
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Te Papa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington.
Termite
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.
Testicle
A testicle or testis (testes) is the male gonad in all bilaterians, including humans.
The Biological Bulletin
The Biological Bulletin is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of biology.
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The Genetics Society
The Genetics Society is a British learned society.
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The Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Experimental Biology (formerly The British Journal of Experimental Biology) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of comparative physiology and integrative biology.
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The Science of Nature
The Science of Nature, formerly Naturwissenschaften, is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering all aspects of the natural sciences relating to questions of biological significance.
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Thorax
The thorax (thoraces or thoraxes) or chest is a part of the anatomy of mammals and other tetrapod animals located between the neck and the abdomen.
Thorax (arthropod anatomy)
The thorax is the midsection (tagma) of the hexapod body (insects and entognathans).
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Thrips
Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts.
Thysania agrippina
Thysania agrippina is a species of moth in the family Erebidae.
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Topsoil
Topsoil is the upper layer of soil.
Trachea
The trachea (tracheae or tracheas), also known as the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi of the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all animals with lungs.
Transcription (biology)
Transcription is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA.
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Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
Trichromacy
Trichromacy or trichromatism is the possession of three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different types of cone cells in the eye.
Trombicula
Trombicula, known as chiggers, red bugs, scrub-itch mites, or berry bugs, are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) in the Trombiculidae family.
Tropical rainforest
Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator.
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Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
Tshekardocoleidae
Tshekardocoleidae is an extinct family of stem group beetles, known from the Permian.
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Tymbal
The tymbal (or timbal) is the corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects.
Tympanal organ
A tympanal organ (or tympanic organ) is a hearing organ in insects, consisting of a membrane (tympanum) stretched across a frame backed by an air sac and associated sensory neurons.
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kilohertz.
Ultrasound avoidance
Ultrasound avoidance is an escape or avoidance reflex displayed by certain animal species that are preyed upon by echolocating predators.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
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Uric acid
Uric acid is a heterocyclic compound of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen with the formula C5H4N4O3.
Vein
Veins are blood vessels in the circulatory system of humans and most other animals that carry blood towards the heart.
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Ventral nerve cord
The ventral nerve cord is a major structure of the invertebrate central nervous system.
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Viviparity
In animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the mother, with the maternal circulation providing for the metabolic needs of the embryo's development, until the mother gives birth to a fully or partially developed juvenile that is at least metabolically independent.
Volatile organic compound
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature.
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Voltinism
Voltinism is a term used in biology to indicate the number of broods or generations of an organism in a year.
Vortex
In fluid dynamics, a vortex (vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or curved.
Waggle dance
Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee.
Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of terrestrial locomotion among legged animals.
Wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder.
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Water beetle
A water beetle is a generalized name for any beetle that is adapted to living in water at any point in its life cycle.
Wax
Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures.
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Weevil
Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts.
Wheat weevil
The wheat weevil (Sitophilus granarius), also known as the grain weevil or granary weevil, is an insect that feeds on cereal grains, and is a common pest in many places.
Witchetty grub
The witchetty grub (also spelled witchety grub or witjuti grub) is a term used in Australia for the large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths.
Woodlouse
Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea.
Worker policing
Worker policing is a behavior seen in colonies of social hymenopterans (ants, bees, and wasps) whereby worker females eat or remove eggs that have been laid by other workers rather than those laid by a queen.
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Xylem
Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants, the other being phloem.
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Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
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Zophobas morio
Zophobas morio is a species of darkling beetle, whose larvae are known by the common name superworm, kingworm, barley worm, morio worm or simply Zophobas. Superworms are common in the reptile pet industry as food, along with giant mealworms, which are Tenebrio molitor larvae sprayed with juvenile hormone.
Zoraptera
The insect order Zoraptera, commonly known as angel insects, contains small and soft bodied insects with two forms: winged with wings sheddable as in termites, dark and with eyes (compound) and ocelli (simple); or wingless, pale and without eyes or ocelli.
Zygentoma
Zygentoma are an order in the class Insecta, and consist of about 550 known species.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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See also
Entomology
- Caterpillar inflation
- Coleopterology
- Compound eye
- Conservation and restoration of insect specimens
- Decline in insect populations
- Deyrolle
- Entomological warfare
- Entomologists
- Entomology
- Figulus (beetle)
- Forensic entomology
- Glossary of entomology terms
- Ida M. Eliot
- Insect
- Insects (journal)
- Insects in art
- Insects in literature
- Insects in medicine
- Insects in music
- Insects in mythology
- Insects in religion
- International Congress of Entomology
- J. O. Westwood Medal
- Lateral accessory lobes
- Lepidopterology
- Lincoln University Entomology Research Collection
- List of insect-inspired songs
- Myrmecology
- Odonatology
- Stingless bee
- Timeline of entomology
- Timeline of entomology – 1800–1850
- Timeline of entomology – 1850–1900
- Timeline of entomology – prior to 1800
- Timeline of entomology since 1900
Extant Early Devonian first appearances
- Anurida stereoodorata
- Chimaera
- Coelacanth
- Fungus
- Hexapoda
- Holocephali
- Insect
- Lungfish
- Nematode
- Opiliones
- Springtail
- Tetrapodomorpha
Insects
- Atelura valencianica
- Biliprotein
- Cyrtolobus frigidus
- Diura chronus
- Entomology
- Evolution of insects
- Insect
- Insect biology
- Insect ecology
- Insect morphology
- Insect pheromones
- Pyrophile
- Texoreddellia
- Tricholepidion
- Windshield phenomenon
- ZO sex-determination system
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