Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation
...ncluded approximately 500 species of caterpillars, beetles and fruitfliesfruit flies from common plant-eating...found was that the composition of the community of beetles does not change with distance as long as the environment is stable, Cognato said. Even communities ......y size in insects. It's the legs that count in the beetles studied here, but what matters for the other hundreds of thousands of beetle species and millions of insect species overall is still an open question, said Jake Socha, Argonne biologist....