在民间，素有“惊蛰吃梨”的习俗。相传，古时一位闻名海内的商贾用梨倒换其他地方的红枣与布，往返两地从中营利，（插入）长久以来便有了积蓄。后人为了鼓励自己的子孙离家创业，便在惊蛰这日给他们吃梨，有“离家创业”之意。

Insects and arachnids become more active as it gets warmer. From bees to scorpions, here's what kind of bugs you'll see in ...

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

When vertebrates moved onto land, long ago, some of them eventually became airborne, way after the insects did. There are three groups of vertebrates that have used powered, muscle-driven flight: ...

"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 ...

Fast and agile robotic insects mimic bees, aiding crop pollination and tackling population decline and food security risks.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...