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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Molecule numbers at insect olfactory threshold | Insect | Table - link | N/A | 109133 | Boeckh J, Kaissling KE... |
| Minimum interommatidial angles for insect species | Insect | Table - link | ˚ (degrees) | 117188 | Land MF. Visual acuity... |
| Span of insect evolutionary history | Insect | 300 | million years | 113320 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| List of genome and chromosome sizes for some insect species | Insect | Table - link | N/A | 106681 | Hunt GJ, Page RE Jr.... |
| Global insect fauna | Biosphere | ~10^18 | animals | 116941 | Kevin J. Gaston & Tim... |
| Distribution of insects visiting flowers in the Australian Alps | Insect | Diptera 62.3%: Hymenoptera 30.8%: Lepidoptera 11.2%: Coleoptera 1.9% | % | 115232 | Catherine Marina Pickering... |
| Estimated number of insects on earth at a given moment | Insect | 1E+18 | Unitless | 104961 | Bert Holldobler and Edward... |
| Distribution of insects visiting flowers in a Mediterranean plant community | Insect | ants 58.5% beetles 12% flies 9.5% honey bees 6.4% wild bees 6.4% wasps 5.2% | N/A | 115245 | Bosch J, Retana J, Cerdá... |
| Dimensions of cuticular hair | Insect | 5 thick: 300 long | μm | 109138 | Kaissling KE. Chemo-... |
| Diameter of SF-21 ovary cell | Insect | 18 | μm | 108907 | http://www.invitroge... |
| Muscle efficiency | Insect | D. hydei 11: euglossine bees 4-16: M. sexta 10: S. sanguineum 12.6: C. splendens 8.7: S. americana 6 | % | 109844 | Lehmann FO, Dickinson... |
| First appearance of beetles | Insect | ~285 | Mya | 113120 | Hunt T et al., A com... |
| Number of described species of beetles (Coleoptera, the most species-rich group of organisms on Earth) | Insect | ~360,000 | described species | 113121 | Bouchard P et al., F... |
| Wingspan of Meganeura spp., extinct flying insects ~3 times the size of the largest flying insects today | Insect | >65 - 71 | cm | 113319 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| Estimated number of species | Insect | 5,000,000 - 6,000,000 | species | 113444 | Pimm SL et al., The ... |
| Shortest generation time of an insect | Aphid Rhopalosiphum prunifolia | 4.7 | days | 100519 | University of Florida... |
| Diameters of various mammalian, yeast and insect cells | Various | link | μm | 108910 | http://www.orflo.com... |
| P:N ratio by mass in freshwater zooplankton and insect herbivores from terrestrial ecosystems | Various | 0.1 freshwater zooplankton: 0.08 insect herbivores | Unitless | 107193 | Karpinets TV, Greenwood DJ... |
| Fraction of insect species per taxonomic order that have contracting ranges in the UK | Biosphere | 30 - 60 | % of species per taxonomic order | 117267 | Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
| Fraction of insects collected from white or yellow insect traps out of five different coloured traps (white, yellow, orange, red and purple) | Plants | 66 | % of all individual insects collected from traps that are white or yellow | 115231 | Catherine Marina Pickering... |