The short answer is because it would scare... ...here are several hypotheses as to why insects and other arthropods don't get bigger... ...her arthropods don't get bigger, said insect physiologist Jon Harrison, at Arizona State... ...in Tempe. The first hypothesis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/21/Why-Arent-Insects-as-Big-as-Humans/Image: Shipher Wu and Gee-way Lin/National Taiwan University - via Wikipedia Photosynthesis, the process of by which light energy is captured from the sun and turned into chemical energy, as any school c...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/18/Photosynthetic-Aphids/How tiny can tiny insects be? Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science,... ...than an amoeba! Thrips are tiny insects , typically just a millimetre in length.... ...must be. Now, consider that there are insects that lay their eggs insi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/09/insect-smaller-than-an-amoeba/A fossilized insect wing from the species Stephanotypus schneideri... ...g), substantially smaller than the largest fossil insect (Meganeuropsis permiana, about 33 cm lo... ...il is a drawing of the largest Cenozoic insect (it's about 12 million yea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/06/what-killed-giant-insects-that-ruled-the-skies-of-ancient-earth/Scientists went to the Krubera Cav... ...planet, to discover the world's deepest insects . They found these creepy-crawlies livin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/26/worlds-deepest-land-bug/This fetching praying mantis looks like she is flirting with the camera! But the orchid mantis may be a male. An orchid mantis is one of the many flower mantis species that have camouflage to match the type of flower...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/17/15-incredible-flower-praying-mantis-pictures/This photo shows a replica of Bocydium globula... ...globulare, the Brazilian Treehopper. It's a real insect -scout's honor! See more pictures of this treehop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/06/the-most-surreal-insect-on-earth/An insect called the cottony cushion scale has developed a... ...nds to die out. Gardner clarified that the female insects are not truly hermaphroditic, as much as they are... ...tic, as much as they are two different individual insects
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/18/cloned-fathers-carried-inside-insect-daughters/The gnat-ogre, Holcocephalus fuscus, is a tiny insect that eats even tiner insects . You've got to look really close to ever see them...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/02/the-gnat-ogre/This beetle is named Onymacris unguicularis, or the ‘tok-tokkie’ beetle. Why does he look as if he's trying to stand on his head? He’s developed a rather nifty way of getting a drink. As a sea fog rolls in of a mo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/10/the-namibian-fog-basking-beetle/