Insects & Other Invertebrates, WIN-ZOR
Yet, in addition to being critically important—because they naturally recycle decaying matter—in maintaining balance within the food chain, bugs can also be fascinating creatures, whether in regard to the water strider's ability to run across the surface of water or the assassin bugs' varied and creative means of catching and killing their prey. Mollusks, another group of invertebrates, get less of a bad rap. Their ranks include nearly 100,000 described species of soft-bodied animals that are usually wholly or partly enclosed in a calcium carbonate shell; examples include snails, clams, oysters, squids, and octopuses.
Insects & Other Invertebrates Encyclopedia Articles By Title
window-winged moth, (family Thyrididae), any of a group of tropical moths (order Lepidoptera) that are generally......
wireworm, any of certain millipede (q.v.)...
wolf spider, (family Lycosidae), large family of more than 2,300 species and 135 genera of spiders named for their......
wood louse, either of two related terrestrial crustaceans, the pill bug (q.v.) and the sow bug...
wood wasp, primitive insect belonging to any of three families in the suborder Symphyta (order Hymenoptera): Xiphydriidae,......
woolly bear, the caterpillar of any of several species of tiger moth. One of the most well-known species is the......
worm, any of various unrelated invertebrate animals that typically have soft, slender, elongated bodies. Worms......
worm shell, any marine snail of the family Vermetidae (subclass Prosobranchia, class Gastropoda). The shell of......
Worthenia, genus of extinct gastropods (snails) preserved as common fossils in rocks of Devonian to Triassic age......
yucca moth, (genus Tegeticula), any of four species of insects of the Prodoxidae family of moths (order Lepidoptera).......
zebra mussel, a species of tiny mussels (genus Dreissena) that are prominent freshwater pests. They proliferate......
zebra swallowtail butterfly, (Eurytides marcellus), species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (order Lepidoptera)......
zoanthid, any member of the order Zoanthidea, a group of about 300 species of marine animals of the class Anthozoa......
zorapteran, (order Zoraptera), any of a small group of about 30 species of insects found on every continent except......