‘’Types of Insects-insectarium
Q: How many insects are in the world?
A: If you are talking about the number of different kinds of insects in the world, a good
scientific estimate is that there are 1,017,018 species of insects in the world.
Wow! That
means...
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‘’Types of Insects-insectarium
Q: How many insects are in the world?
A: If you are talking about the number of different kinds of insects in the world, a good
scientific estimate is that there are 1,017,018 species of insects in the world.
Wow! That
means you could spend your whole life looking at different kinds of insects and never see
them all.
Three out of four creatures on the planet are insects.
Some rough estimates of
species counts by type: 2,000 praying mantis, 5,000 dragonfly, 20,000 grasshopper, 82,000
regular "bugs", 120,000 fly, 110,000 bee, wasp ant and sawfly 170,000 butterfly or moth
and 360,000 beetle.
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The Smithsonian - Jakob Sturm’s Insecten-Sammlung (1796) Subsection 1
Q: What insect lives the longest?
A: Tarantulas can live 30 years; a queen termite has been known to live 50 years; and there
are, of course, the 17-year locusts.
Most bugs live less than a year and are seasonal.
However, some wood beetles can emerge from wood where they live after as long as
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