#ilya's bug rambling
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I just had like three people try to convince me there exists grass without flowers. Lord have mercy on us.
#ilya's bug rambling#not bug rambling but biology#made me question my entire botanical knowledge right then and there#only to find out those people didn't even know what flower meant
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A few things I've picked up from reading a few pages of Evolution of Insects (David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel, 2005), plus highlights
→ larvae/complete metamorphosis (Holometabola insects) have some kind of evolutionary advantage that we aren't sure of, but I didn't get to the part where they explain it yet
→ insects evolved flight just once, at least 100 million years before anyone else did
→ approximately 85% of plants with flowers are pollinated by insects, and nearly half of all insects directly interact with plants
→ "the inspiring diversity of flowers is due in large part to insects lured to them"
→ insects cause so much damage in pandemics (see: plague, typhus, chagas, sleeping sickness, malaria, yellow fever), and prompted the human adaptions of sickle cell anemia and delta-32 gene,
→ therefore, the insects that carried those microbes are the only metazoans known to have affected the evolution of humans
→ "species comprise a real unit and not a category defined at a somewhat arbitrary level, like genera and families"
→ this one fly is, arguably, "the best known eukaryotic organism"
I'm currently on page 11 out of 645. Erm. Baby steps
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My dream as a biology student is to pick up bugs with the same bravery animal crossing characters do
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Hi guys i have finally gone crazy
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Why are people so mean to bugs. They came before you you know!! They survived like two or three extinctions. They learned to walk on land and fly before any of you did. They selected plants. They're the reason fruits and flowers are the way they are today. They're going to outlive us all. Have some goddamn respect
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(happy) stimming so fucking hard i found this book in our uni's library called evolution of insects and hahrgshhahshabah it has insect taxonomy AND how the taxons came to be
This!!
Edit: found out this book costs 2.840 bucks. Long live public education and libraries
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would you like to explain the "it's complicated" pterygota?
I would in fact love to but i haven't researched about that a lot LMAO
Afaik like... Pterygota don't necessarily have wings. Ants are part of pterygota, same with stickbugs, lice, fleas. For example some of them like.. had ancestors with wings but eventually lost them, which still counts as pterygota
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almost afraid to ask but how many, classes? of bugs are there?
Good question! Infodump under the cut
Insecta is the class (though other arthopods could also be considered bugs - like centipedes, millipedes and spiders). Inside it there's the subclasses apterygota (primitive wingless insects - silverfish and so) and pterygota (most have wings, some.. it's complicated)
Inside pterygota there's the infraclasses paleoptera (can't fold wings) and neoptera (foldable wings). Inside neoptera there's most notably exopterygota (incomplete metamorphosis - grasshoppers, roaches, etc) and endopterygota (complete metamorphosis - mosquitoes, butterflies, etc) and another superclass nobody talks about LMAO. Those things change easily so it's hard to find a source on what the current nomenclature is
I don't know all the orders yet, but hopefully i will soon! It's why i want to grab that book from our university's library about arthopod taxonomy and write down all of them
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I love lepidoptera. They're my babies. I love moths and butterflies and i love everything in between. I will make an atlas with all families of lepidoptera as soon as I get my life together. Will update
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