Comment on Coleoptera is the largest order of insects, representing about 40% of all insect species.
bazus1@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Lazy passive sci comm. :)