Will Insects Take Over the World?
10 Things You Need to Know About Bugs....
1. There are currently more than 1,000,000 known species of insects, more than all other types of animals combined. Scientists estimate there may be another one to thirty million different species not yet discovered. (Source: www.wikipedia.org)2. Insects currently outnumber humans by around 1.6 billion to 1. Another estimate puts the global population of insects at 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quintillion). (Sources: Entomological Society of America and entsoc.org)
3. Global warming may bring an alarming rise in the insect population, according to a University of Washington study. This bug boom could lead to greater spread of insect-borne diseases like malaria and Lyme disease, or worse.... (Source: livescience.com)
4. As insects have been efficient carriers of known diseases, scientists anticipate that insects and other invertebrates may be the vehicle for emerging and future plagues that devastate humanity. (Source: ScienceDaily.com)
5. Insects have been observed to adapt certain physiological behaviors such as digestion to quickly adapt to changing environments, essentially making evolutionary changes in the course of an individual bug's lifetime. (Source: ScienceDaily.com)
6. An insect -- the walking stick -- is the only organism known to have developed complex traits (wings), lost them through evolution, then regained them. Prior to the discovery by a Brigham Young University scientist, it was thought evolutionary losses and regenerations were not possible. (Source: www.astrobio.net)
7. Insects are stronger than humans. The average man can pull around 80 percent of his body weight, but some insects such as beetles and ants can pull 50 times their body weight. (Source: University of Kentucky Entomology Department)
8. Not all insects are "bugs." Though most people use the terms interchangeably, the term "bug" technically refers to insects in the order Heteroptera, such as stink bugs, water striders, and bed bugs. (Source: Entomological Society of America)
9. Virtually all parts of the world have vibrant insect populations -- including the Arctic and Antarctica -- except the oceans, where insects are rare to non-existent. Instead, the insect's relative, the crustacean, is found in great numbers in most ocean waters. (Source: www.entomon.net)
10. A fossil of a millipede similar to the millipedes we know today is considered to be the earliest land creature on record, estimated to have lived some 428 million years ago. (Source: www.bbc.co.uk)
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