Insects

Insects ABC

How to learn the alphabet? Here is an insects ABC. A is an Ant, B is a Butterfly and C is a Cricket. This list of insects names can help you remember the letters of the alphabet. For each letter of the alphabet there are three different names. A Ant Aphid Assassin bug B Butterfly […]

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The Butterfly Effect

The term “Butterfly Effect” has its origin in meteorology. But in my own life I have experienced a real “Butterfly Effect”. Read on if you like to know how it happened. The Butterfly of Lorenz The meteorologist Edward Lorenz experimented in the sixties with computer models to make weather forecasts. He kept feeding the computer

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Good insects

Most people think that all insects are bad. But actually, a lot of insects are very useful for us. Without insects, the world would look quite different. On this page we will learn about the different ways that insects can be beneficial to people. Insects produce useful products Some insects are very useful because they

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Bad insects

There are many good insects, but there are also plenty of insects that are bad or harmful to people. On this page we will learn about bad insects and the different ways that insects can be harmful to people. Insects in your house We don’t like it when insects invade our house. Whenever we find

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Insect proverbs and quotes

This is a collection of proverbs, quotes, sayings and expressions about insects, spiders and similar small animals. This page shows a summary of my English collection. Click here for a bigger list. Please have a look at my Dutch collection. Ant Bed-bug Bee Beetle Bookworm Bug Butterfly Caterpillar Centipede Chafer Cicada Cockroach Cricket Drone bee

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Insect bodyparts

The most visible parts of the body of an adult insect are: the head, the antennae, the mouthparts, the thorax, the wings, the legs, and the abdomen. To learn more about the anatomy, click on the different body parts of this insect !! Click on the insect!   Head The head is the anterior of

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Insects

This page is the starting point to reach all my insect pages. The first few pages are designed to learn more about insects. Then follow some pages with proverbs and quotes about insects. And finally some scripts to simulate insect population growth. Entomology for beginners When I started making web pages in 1995, the first

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