1. Gullan and Cranston The Insects
Brian O’Meara
EEB464 Fall 2017

2. Learning objectives Understand key natural history of a major group
Apply concepts from the class to natural history

3. So, if I picked a species at random, and asked what t is, you’d be right over half the time if you said insect
Stork. Insect diversity: facts, fiction, and speculation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (1988) vol. 35 pp

4. Gullan and Cranston The Insects
Size = # species
Gullan and Cranston The Insects

5. Regier et al. 2011

6. Gullan and Cranston The Insects

8. Gullan and Cranston The Insects

11. BBC
National Geographic
National Geographic
PBS: Nature

13. Tasty ones look like nasty ones
Müllerian mimicry
Batesian mimicry
All nasty
Tasty ones look like nasty ones
Repeating Patterns of Mimicry. Meyer A, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/10/2006, e341

14. Brian V. [poster on Canon forums]
BBC: Life
Toby Barton
Brian V. [poster on Canon forums]

15. BBC: Life in the undergrowth
Feeding
BBC: Life in the undergrowth
Kent Loeffler, Cornell

16. BBC: Life