"If insects had not evolved this very improbable joint to flap their wings, the world would be a very different place, absent of flowering plants and familiar creatures like birds, bats—and ...

or millipedes—insects have three pairs of jointed legs, segmented bodies, an exoskeleton, one pair of antennae, and (usually) one or two pairs of wings. Insects live in nearly every habitat ...

Flying insects are the large dragonflies (meganeura). At the top centre of the image is a Homoioptera with a pair of long tails. In the front of the pair of wings, it has a of pair flap-like ...

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are ...

This group of insects is characterized by their sucking mouth parts and the pattern that their folded front wings make covering their hind wings. Many hemipterans are aquatic, and you might have ...

A fearsome-looking insect commonly referred to as “ winged wētā ” may look like a flying wētā, but it is not a wētā at all.

If you look closely at any insect, they all have six legs. Insects also have wings which some of them use to fly with. Look at this pretty butterfly flapping its wings and flying along.

Some minibeasts eat other insects or even larger dead animals ... Others, such as bees, ladybirds and dragonflies, have wings which allow them to fly. Those that move along the ground have ...