Sometime around 1600 Thomas Mouffet, gazing through a magnifier with great excitement upon insects, became perhaps the first man in history truly to appreciate their private lives. In his Theatrum Insectorum, or Theater of Insects, he wrote with the enthusiasm of an approving first nighter viewing a new drama. On the stages of our microscopes, […]

INSECTS AND HIGHER ANIMALS
We have glimpsed some of the great diversity in the worlds beneath the waves, and it is hoped that they will be often revisited. We have seen how thoroughly dependent these animal types, as well as lower plants, are upon being directly in the waters that bathe them almost constantly. But from […]

Insects either directly or indirectly provide us with food and other necessities we may have in life. Plant crops and feed crops would collapse without the insect’s help in pollination. Many vegetables and most fruits that we consume exist because of insect pollination. Giving us the fact that life, as we know it, will never […]

Pollination is the process which plants undergo to be able to reproduce sexually. The process of pollination consists of the following: the transfer of the pollen grains or the male germ cell from the stamen of the plant to the stigma; as the pollen is transferred to the stigma the pollen then grows into a […]

There are many greatly interesting features to look for in an insect, varying among the vast number of kinds. Drawing, notes and diagrams of each will be of lasting value to you. The breathing organs, or spiracles, the hearing organs of those which hear found in such unlikely places as the front leg of the […]