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?