An insect has six legs and three body segments: a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. You may know that spiders, mites, and ticks have eight legs, and therefore are not insects. Sometimes we lump all ...

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News; Features; Ask Dr. Universe: Insects’ appendages give them a leg up - six legs up, actually - on predators July 27, 2023 Updated Sun., July 30, 2023 at 2:21 p.m. There are more than a ...

Compare that to an insect, whose abdomen doesn't have appendages. But it has six legs on its thorax, while its head and mouth are basically set up like the mantis shrimp's. Then, there are spiders.

After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens, researchers believe the extinct wasp species featured Venus flytrap-like abdomen appendages for capturing other insects.

Insects might have inherited their distinctive multisegmented heads from an ancestor living more than half a billion years ago.. Newly described fossils of Kylinxia zhangi, an ancient animal that ...

He noticed that if no insects visited the orchid to pollinate it, the flower started wilting. As it drooped, the finger-like appendage gradually moved towards the stigma, bringing pollen into ...