About Lesson
Insects and their benefits.
- Pollination (80% by insects)
- Decomposition and nutrient cycling (dung beetles, flies, carrion beetles, millipedes, cockroaches, ants, termites.)
- Food for wildlife
- Predators, parasitoids, and parasites (ladybird beetles, lacewings, parasite wasps)
- Disease
- Pollination of human crops
A) Silkworm:
- As Space food.
- Chinese medicine.
- Aesthetics
B) Honey bee:
- Pollination
- Honeybee
- Bee wax
- Pollen
- Propolis
Why butterflies and moths are important?
a) Intrinsic: valuable and worthy of conservation in their own right, highly diverse.
b) Aesthetic: natural heritage
c) Educational: fascinating life cycle, wing pattern, migration
d) Scientific value: pest control, evolution, population dynamics.
e) Ecosystem: healthy, indicator, food chain
f) Health value: enjoy, walking, medicinal
g) Economic value: ecotourism, antibiotics