How many types of insects are there on earth? Detailed answer

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How many types of insects are there on earth?

Do you know how many species of insects live on our planet? From 2 to 4 million different types! Scientists have described about 625 species of insects, and there is little hope that all existing insect species will ever be described. No class of animals can even come close in terms of the number of species to insects.

If you try to estimate the absolute number of insects living on earth, then the figure will turn out to be so huge that the human mind cannot even imagine it! The only way that scientists can estimate the approximate number of insects living in the earth is to calculate their number in 1 square. m of wet soil. This number ranges from 500 to 2000.

Thus, in one acre of good soil, there should be about 4 million insects. Most of these insects are indistinguishable to the human eye. Many of them are simply microscopic in size. And only a few thousand species of insects bother a person enough to try to control them. If you think about it, you realize that a person is literally surrounded by insects, but does not suspect how many of them are around!

The vast majority of insects have two things in common: their body is divided into three parts and they usually have six legs, although there are exceptions to this rule.

Author: Likum A.

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