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Pages in category "Insects of India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 415 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The American common name "chigger" shares its origin with the jigger (a type of flea), deriving from chigoe, ultimately from Galibi Carib siko / chico or, alternatively, from Wolof or Yoruba jiga ("insect") [citation needed] Chili pepper (capsicum various species) pepper: Nahuatl: From chīlli ("pepper") [citation needed] Chinchilla: rodent ...
The Hindu epic Mahabharata describes two more elephants by the same name – a mythical elephant that was an incarnation of a sage, and the one that belonged to Bhagadatta, the king of Pragjyotisha. Vinayaki is an elephant-headed Hindu goddess, a Matrika. The goddess is generally associated with the elephant-headed god of wisdom, Ganesha.
Kerria lacca is a species of insect in the family Kerriidae, the lac insects. These are in the superfamily Coccoidea, the scale insects. This species is perhaps the most commercially important lac insect, being a main source of lac, a resin which can be refined into shellac and other products. [1] This insect is native to Asia. [2]
Insect cooking oil, insect butter and fatty alcohols can be made from such insects as the superworm (Zophobas morio). [199] Insect species including the black soldier fly or the housefly in their maggot forms, and beetle larvae such as mealworms , can be processed and used as feed for farmed animals including chicken, fish and pigs. [ 200 ]
Leptocorisa [1] is a genus of broad-headed bugs in the family Alydidae. There are about 17 described species in Leptocorisa , some of which are known as "rice bugs" or gundhi bugs (in India); they are found in south and east Asia and in Oceania .
Many entomologists specialize in a single order or even a family of insects, and a number of these subspecialties are given their own generic names, typically (but not always) derived from the scientific name of the group: Coleopterology – beetles; Dipterology – flies; Odonatology – dragonflies and damselflies; Hemipterology – true bugs
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of insects which do not correspond to a taxon. Pages in category "Insect common names" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.