Insects Play Critical Role in Ecosystems Beyond Just Providing Food, New Research Shows
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A new international study has revealed a whole series of unsuspected benefits and functions of insects, from chimpanzee pharmacology to the air conditioning of reptiles, and warns that their silent extinction threatens the entire life of the planet. They arrived in this world about 480 million years ago, long before us, when the first plants also began to colonize the land firm. And they filled it with life in such a way that even today, several…
A recent scientific study has shown that insects play multiple roles in the lives of different types of vertebrates.
Insects are essential to vertebrate life—as food, shelter and medicine
While insects provide an essential food source for many vertebrate species, they're more than just a protein-laden snack. Chimpanzees use them to sterilize wounds, and herons use them as fishing bait. Sloths rely on moths to maintain the algae in their fur, which they then eat. Birds and reptiles lay their eggs inside the temperature-controlled sanctuary of termite mounds, while some desert frogs reside in ant nests because of the humidity.
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