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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth’s ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different ...

This is, after all, the way in which most animals ever to have lived on Earth had their start. What you see in the accompanying photo gallery are the eggs of a few small branches of the insect ...

Edible insects are often portrayed as something of ... They've been looking forward to this moment all day. One lifts the lid from a large jar of clear liquor and deftly swats the attacking ...

This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focused on ...

After all, they were among more than 600 scientists, entrepreneurs and environmentalists from around the world who had descended on Singapore as part of a mission to make insects delicious.

About 80 percent of all animals on the planet are insects, and the Enns Entomology Museum at MU has one of the most important ...