Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art...
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Various cultures throughout Africa utilize insects for many things and have developed unique interactions with insects: as food sources, for sale or trade in...
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Entomophagy (redirect from Eating insects)
interested in entomophagy since 2013. Insects as feed Human interactions with insects Insects in medicine Insects as food Taboo food and drink Deluycker...
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Moth (category Agricultural pest insects)
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder...
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Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. This interaction is mostly...
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Arthropods in film (redirect from Insects in film)
"Beautiful Bugs, Bothersome Bugs, and FUN Bugs: Examining Human Interactions with Insects and Other Arthropods". Anthrozoös. 30 (3): 357–372. doi:10...
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Deathwatch beetle (category Household pest insects)
aged oak timbers, which the beetles prefer. To attract mates, the adult insects create a tapping or ticking sound that can sometimes be heard in the rafters...
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Apitherapy (category Articles with short description)
2016. Berenbaum, May R. (January 1995). Bugs in the System: Insects and Their Impact on Human Affairs. Helix Books. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-201-62499-1. Palmer...
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Flea circus (category Insects in culture)
the Flea (c. 1833) also promoted flea circuses.: 314 Flea performances with military themes such as staged "sword fights" among fleas, were popular in...
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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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Anthrozoology (redirect from Human-animal interactions)
Anthrozoology, also known as human–animal studies (HAS), is the subset of ethnobiology that deals with interactions between humans and other animals. It is...
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of meat production Human interactions with insects Insects as feed Insect-based pet food Insects in medicine List of edible insects by country Sustainable...
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appeared in a paper by W.T. Morrill. Human uses of animals Human uses of birds Human interactions with insects Human uses of plants Olden, Julian D.; Vitule...
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Eusociality (redirect from Social Insects)
physical dominance interactions among foundresses of the colony including biting, chasing, and food soliciting. Such interactions create a dominance hierarchy...
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enemies pinpoint a food source. Humans can take advantage of tritrophic interactions in the biological control of insect pests. Plants produce secondary...
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Human interactions with fungi include both beneficial uses, whether practical or symbolic, and harmful interactions such as when fungi damage crops, timber...
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Cyborg (redirect from Robots with human brains)
implant artificial structures into insects during their metamorphic development. The first insect cyborgs, moths with integrated electronics in their thorax...
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Ethnobiology (category Articles with short description)
perspectives in ethnobiology allows for examining complex, dynamic interactions between human and natural systems. Biologists have been interested in local...
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groups to corporations and political states. As such, social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, languages...
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Corpse decomposition (redirect from Human decomposition)
temperatures below 4 °C. Corpse farms are also used to study the interactions of insects with decaying bodies. Payne, Jerry A. (September 1965). "A Summer...
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Mycobiome (redirect from (Human) Mycobiome)
communities new sources of plant energy at the genomic level. Interactions between fungi and insects are incredibly common and most of these relationships are...
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Insect olfaction refers to the function of chemical receptors that enable insects to detect and identify volatile compounds for foraging, predator avoidance...
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Cockroach (redirect from Roach (insect))
(or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some...
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considered insects, so over 50% of all described eukaryotes (1.8 million species) are insects (see illustration). With only 950,000 known non-insects, if the...
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Symbiosis (redirect from Interspecific interactions)
include all long-term biological interactions (i.e., mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism), but exclude brief interactions such as predation. In 1949, Edward...
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Scutigera coleoptrata (category Biological control agents of pest insects)
it can live in human homes. It is an insectivore, preying on insects and arachnids by envenomating them (but not dangerous to humans). In 1758, Carl...
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Companion planting (category Articles with short description)
control, including by providing habitat for beneficial insects. Companion planting can reduce insect damage to crops, whether by disrupting pests' ability...
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Carpenter ant (category Articles with short description)
typically eat parts of other dead insects or substances derived from other insects. Common foods for them include insect parts, "honeydew" produced by aphids...
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Insects as feed are insect species used as animal feed, either for livestock, including aquaculture, or as pet food. As livestock feed production uses...
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smelling and subconsciously assessing another human's pheromones. It also affects the sexual attraction of insects and mammals. The major histocompatibility...
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