Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Humans might have built civilizations, but insects own the world. After all, over half of all known species are insects. So if they all suddenly ...
All insects belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But unlike other arthropods—like lobsters, spiders, or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one ...
Insects are the largest group of all living things, containing more than a million identified species (compared with 240,000 flowering plants and 4,500 mammals). They can be found in all habitats ...
There is almost no food available at this time of year and insects generally do not eat during their hibernation. Winter can last for months, so insects have evolved two strategies: gain additional ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Humans might have built civilizations, but insects own the world. After all, over half of all known species are insects. So if they all suddenly vanished ...
STOCKHOLM: You are standing in a forest in the middle of winter and the temperature has dropped below zero. The ground is covered in snow and the trees and bushes are naked. The insects that ...
Insects are found almost everywhere and in all environments. They inhabited the earth before the dinosaurs — and are still with us today! We know of about 1 million species, but biologists think there ...
The insects that normally fly or crawl in warmer weather are nowhere to be seen in the winter You are standing in a forest in the middle of winter and the temperature has dropped below zero.
You might assume that insects do not survive the seasonal shift. After all, temperatures are too low for them to forage and the plants or other insects they'd eat are scarce anyway.