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What is the most common type of insect?
Beetles
Beetles. They’re the most common insect in the world — and probably in your home. Carpet beetles are known to nosh on dried foods in your pantry, like flour, corn meal, and cereal.
What is the number one insect?
1. Mosquito. The deadliest insect is, in fact, the deadliest critter in the entire animal kingdom. It is the humble mosquito, which kills more than 700,000 people every year.
What is special about insects?
Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group of animals; they include more than a million described species and represent more than half of all known living organisms.
What is cool about insects?
The number of insect species is believed to be between six and ten million. Insect bodies have three parts, the thorax, abdomen and head. Insects have two antennae. Insects have an exoskeleton • Insects have three pairs of legs.
What are some beautiful insects?
Top 10 Most Beautiful Insects In The World
- Christmas beetle. http://blogpestcontrol.com/2012/12/the-christmas-beetle/
- Jewel Caterpillar.
- Cotton Harlequin Bug.
- Peacock Spider.
- Blue Morpho Butterfly.
- Pink Katydid.
- Devil’s Flower Mantis.
- Madagascan Sunset Moth.
Why are insects so beautiful?
Bugs have evolved with unique appearances for a few key reasons: camouflage, mating, and protection, explains Akito Y. Kawahara, Ph. But human beings see them as cute, or at least less freaky than other bugs. “It’s our interpretation, the way human beings perceive what is beautiful and what is gross,” he continues.
How do you feel about insects?
As it turns out, we are not scared of these multi-legged creatures at all, but we are certainly disgusted by them. Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have recently determined that the part of the human brain associated with disgust, and not fear, becomes activated upon finding insects.