Comment on Coleoptera is the largest order of insects, representing about 40% of all insect species.
bazus1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You coleopterans come here, talkin’ big about your beetle shapes and species. I’m only interest in biomass, and class Isoptera has that on lock, with roughly 77% of total soil arthropod biomass.
Yuval Rosenberg et al., The global biomass and number of terrestrial arthropods.Sci. Adv.9,eabq4049(2023).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abq4049
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Isopods are cheating. They’re ancient. Colepotera are the new kids on the block with the shiny new sports car wings.
bazus1@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, what’s cheating is sticking with Insecta. It’s a short walk up and over to get to Crustacea->Copepoda and we can have more biomass than terrestrial life.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Lazy passive sci comm. :)