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Page 1: The Importance of Insects Why we care. Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps,

The Importance of Insects

Why we care

Page 2: The Importance of Insects Why we care. Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps,

Beneficial traits:

• Make food products: Bees

• Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants

• Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps, ants, butterflies, flies, etc.

• Decomposers: Silverfish, cockroaches, Springtails, etc.

• Predators of detrimental insects

Page 3: The Importance of Insects Why we care. Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps,

Detrimental traits

• Are insects icky?.. Sometimes.

• Structural pests

• Food pests

• Agriculture/ecological pests

• Bite/sting

Page 4: The Importance of Insects Why we care. Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps,

Insects Eating Plants

• Insects eat more plant matter than all other animals combined• This drives evolution• It also drives nutrient

cycling• Pushes nutrients up the

food chain• Cycles nutrients back into

the ground

Page 5: The Importance of Insects Why we care. Beneficial traits: Make food products: Bees Are edible: Grasshoppers, Beetles, Ants Pollinate flowers: Bees, wasps,

Insects have diversity

• Diversity makes the environment more robust• Diversity provides us with

resources• Chemicals• Life Lessons• Experimental Subjects

• Diversity is inspiring


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