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  2. Jerusalem cricket - Wikipedia

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    Stenopelmatini. Genera. Ammopelmatus. Stenopelmatus. Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) [1] are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe Stenopelmatini. The former genus is native to the western United States and parts of Mexico, while the latter genus is from Central America.

  3. Children of the earth - Wikipedia

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    Children of This Earth, a 1930 novel. Earth's Children, a series of historical fiction novels by Jean M. Auel. Děti Země, also known as Children of the Earth (COE), a Czech non-governmental organization. Jerusalem cricket, a North American insect with a name in Spanish that translates as "child of the earth". Category: Disambiguation pages.

  4. Torchwood: Children of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Children of Earth is the banner title of the third and penultimate series of the British television science fiction programme Torchwood, which broadcast for five episodes on BBC One from 6 to 10 July 2009. The series had new producer Peter Bennett and was directed by Euros Lyn, who had considerable experience on the revived Doctor Who ...

  5. Insect biodiversity - Wikipedia

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    Between 950,000–1,000,000 of all described animal species are 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 actual total number of insects is 5.5 million, they may represent over 80% of the total, and with only about 20,000 new ...

  6. Insect ecology - Wikipedia

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    Insect ecology. A giant water bug attacking a fish. Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. [1] Insects play significant roles in the ecology of the world due to their vast diversity of form, function and lifestyle; their considerable biomass; and their ...

  7. Charles Darwin - Wikipedia

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    Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [6] ( / ˈdɑːrwɪn / [7] DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, [8] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and ...

  8. Caterpillar - Wikipedia

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    A monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexippus) caterpillar feeding on an unopened seed pod of swamp milkweed. Caterpillars ( / ˈkætərpɪlər / KAT-ər-pil-ər) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths ). As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the ...

  9. Centipede - Wikipedia

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    Description. Centipedes have a rounded or flattened head, bearing a pair of antennae at the forward margin. They have a pair of elongated mandibles, and two pairs of maxillae. The first pair of maxillae form the lower lip, and bear short palps. The first pair of limbs stretch forward from the body over the mouth.

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