Cute Bug photos
2006-11-03 12:46 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | photos
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Picture of Frog close up
- Many close up photos of insects and bugs
Insects
Insects are invertebrates that are taxonomically referred to as the class Insecta. They are the most numerous and most widespread terrestrial taxon within the phylum Arthropoda, and indeed the most diverse group of animals on the earth, with around 925,000 species described—more than all other animal groups combined. Insects may be found in nearly all environments on the planet, although only a small number of species have adapted to life in the oceans where crustaceans tend to predominate instead.
There are approximately 5,000 dragonfly species, 2,000 praying mantis, 20,000 grasshopper, 170,000 butterfly and moth, 120,000 fly, 82,000 true bug, 350,000 beetle, and 110,000 bee and ant species described to date. Estimates of the total number of current species, including those not yet known to science, range from two million to fifty million, with newer studies favouring a lower figure of about six to ten million.[1][2][3]Adult modern insects range in size from 0.139 mm (see Dicopomorpha echmepterygis) to 555 mm (see Phobaeticus serratipes).
from: wikipedia insects . the above text is open source
