rate attributed to predation. In order to deal with this ongoing escapist battle, insects have evolved a wide range of defense mechanisms. The only restraint...
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another attack by massive insects, which culminates in a second alien invasion. Chikyū Bōeigun 3, released overseas as Earth Defense Force 2017 and alternatively...
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and giant insects in the United States. Insect Armageddon has no story or setting connection to the numbered Earth Defense Force series. Insect Armageddon...
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Historically, insects have been the most significant herbivores, and the evolution of land plants is closely associated with the evolution of insects. While...
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animal species. The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through...
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Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insects)
as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...
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It is believed that plants developed caffeine as a chemical defense against insects. In 1948, Swiss pharmacologist Peter N. Witt started his research...
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Eusociality (redirect from Social Insects)
characteristic of individuals in another caste. Eusocial colonies can be viewed as superorganisms. Eusociality has evolved among the insects, crustaceans, and mammals...
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Insect Armageddon may mean Decline in insect populations, a widespread loss of insect numbers and species Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, a computer...
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unpalatablility and the costs of chemical defense in insects. Pages 216 – 244 in B. D. Roitberg and M. B. Isman, editors. Insect Chemical Ecology. Chapman and Hall...
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It is a spin-off of the Earth Defense Force series and, like the previous 2011 spin-off Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, is geared more toward...
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crustaceans. The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period one lineage of insects evolved flight, the first...
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isoxazlin-5-one derivatives also occur in many species of leaf beetles (see defense in insects). Legumes are economically and culturally important plants due to...
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Ch'ang in Yin-chih-wen, which states: "Whenever taking a step, always watch for ants and insects. Prohibit the building of fires outside (lest insects be...
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Insect morphology is the study and description of the physical form of insects. The terminology used to describe insects is similar to that used for other...
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Harpaphe haydeniana (category Animals described in 1864)
Eisner, Thomas; Maria Eisner; Melody Siegler (2007). Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures. Cambridge,...
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Extatosoma tiaratum (redirect from Spiny-leaf insects)
pet among breeders of exotic insects in North America and Europe. One breeder advises specifically "For a stick insect with body length 127mm, to keep...
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Caterpillar (category Insect developmental biology)
caterpillars (e.g. Hawaiian Eupithecia). Others feed on eggs of other insects, aphids, scale insects, or ant larvae. A few are parasitic on cicadas or leaf hoppers...
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Scolopendra heros (category Animals described in 1853)
"Scolopendra heros (the giant Sonoran centipede)". Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures. Harvard University...
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D3 Publisher (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
(PS4, Windows) Earth Defense Force 5 (PS4, Windows) Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (PS3, XB360, Windows) Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain (PS4...
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Business of Making Games". "Indie-Ana Co-Op and The Dev Stories - You're All In This Together". Co-Optimus. Retrieved 10 May 2012. "Ninja Crusaders (1990)"...
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Sexual selection in insects is about how sexual selection functions in insects. The males of some species have evolved exaggerated adornments and mechanisms...
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Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. Insects play significant roles...
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Arthropod bites and stings (redirect from List of biting insects)
arthropods (insects, arachnids, millipedes and centipedes) can bite or sting human beings. These bites and stings generally occur as a defense mechanism...
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Thomas; Eisner, Maria; Siegler, Melody (2005). Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions and other many-legged creatures. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
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Mawé people (category Indigenous peoples in Brazil)
Vivanco, Jorge M.; Weir, Tiffany (eds.), "Chemical Defenses of Insects: A Rich Resource for Chemical Biology in the Tropics", Chemical Biology of the Tropics:...
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of other species, or even different lifeforms like insects. Green leaf volatiles are involved in patterns of attack and protection between species. They...
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Global Defence Force (redirect from Global Defense Force)
Simple 2000 series games in Europe. Players assume the role of a member of the Earth Defense Force and fight giant insects and other enemies who have...
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Juvabione (category Multiple chemicals in an infobox that need indexing)
compounds play important roles in conifers as the second line of defense against insect induced trauma and fungal pathogens. In 1965, Karel Sláma and Carroll...
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(bisbenzylisoquinolinic and 8-benzylberberinic) which aid in chemical defenses against insects and plant microbes. Chemicals in the essential oils include α-phellandrene...
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