Portal:Entomology/Did you know


 * Charles Darwin was an avid collector of beetles?


 * The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy?


 * Up to 25% of Earth's animal biomass is made up of ants?


 * A certain species of stick insect is known to grow to lengths of up to 21.9 inches?


 * Insects first appear in the fossil record some 318 million years ago at the beginning of the Late Carboniferous period?


 * Entomology as an academic discipline didn't begin to develop until approximately the middle of the 17th century?