INTERESTING INSECT
INFORMATION
Did
you know that insects are the largest animal class in the whole
world.
There
are over 1 000 000 different types of insects in the world and
scientists believe there are many more which have not yet been
discovered.
There
are insects scattered all over the world.
There
are insects in the polar regions.
There
are insects in the tropics.
The
most greatest number of insects is in the tropics.
Some
common insect families are:
Flies,
Beetles, Moths, Butterflies, Bugs, Bees,
Ants,, Wasps, Grasshoppers.
Did
you know that the smallest insects are parasitic insects.
Parasitic
insects are less than 0.025 cm in length when fully grown.
The
largest insects alive today are stick insects which are about
30cm long.
Some
moths have wingspans of about 30 cm.
