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...

another attack by massive insects, which culminates in a second alien invasion. Chikyū Bōeigun 3, released overseas as Earth Defense Force 2017 and alternatively...

and giant insects in the United States. Insect Armageddon has no story or setting connection to the numbered Earth Defense Force series. Insect Armageddon...

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...

Historically, insects have been the most significant herbivores, and the evolution of land plants is closely associated with the evolution of insects. While...

as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walkingsticks, stick animals, or...

It is believed that plants developed caffeine as a chemical defense against insects. In 1948, Swiss pharmacologist Peter N. Witt started his research...

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...

characteristic of individuals in another caste. Eusocial colonies can be viewed as superorganisms. Eusociality has evolved among the insects, crustaceans, and mammals...

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...

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...

crustaceans. The first insects were landbound, but about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period one lineage of insects evolved flight, the first...

arthropods (insects, arachnids, millipedes and centipedes) can bite or sting human beings. These bites and stings generally occur as a defense mechanism...

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...

Insect Armageddon may mean Decline in insect populations, a widespread loss of insect numbers and species Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, a computer...

Sexual selection in insects is about how sexual selection functions in insects. The males of some species have evolved exaggerated adornments and mechanisms...

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...

"Scolopendra heros (the giant Sonoran centipede)". Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures. Harvard University...

Thomas; Eisner, Maria; Siegler, Melody (2005). Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions and other many-legged creatures. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...

Eisner, Thomas; Maria Eisner; Melody Siegler (2007). Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures. Cambridge,...

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...

: pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous:...

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...

et al. (2000). "Seasonal Anointment with Millipedes in a Wild Primate: A Chemical Defense Against Insects?". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 26 (12): 2781–2790...

atheist. Eisner's main body of work was in chemical ecology, primarily studying the chemical defenses of insects against predation. Some of his most famous...

Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. Insects play significant roles...

(PS4, Windows) Earth Defense Force 5 (PS4, Windows) Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (PS3, XB360, Windows) Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain (PS4...

(bisbenzylisoquinolinic and 8-benzylberberinic) which aid in chemical defenses against insects and plant microbes. Chemicals in the essential oils include α-phellandrene...

Numerous video games were released in 2011. Many awards went to games such as Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Legend of...

an Earth Defense Force (EDF) soldier who is part of the elite unit Storm 1. To fight the enemy forces, consisting of aliens and massive insects, the player...