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The largest groups of animals that inhabit our planet Earth, naturally is the insects, the number reached more than one million species, making 5/6 of the entire animal kingdom, and every one of us humans, accounting for about 300 million arthropods.
Scientists speculate that it is the insects are the oldest creatures on earth bearing in mind that some of the invertebrate found fossils date back 400 million years, and before about 140 million years, are the first out of the land. A diversified their anatomy, their complex morphology and their specific biology gives them an important role in the life on Earth hundreds of millions of years. Insect can find in virtually any environment where there is any organic matter. Put it follows that the family of insects are one of the factors for a positive or negative development of human activities, adjust global economy, feeding habits and our health.
Undeserved, but insect damage is the most obvious aspect related to these species, but it is a little known fact that the number of insect species that are harmful is very insignificant, if we compare the number of those that are really useful, or those who can be called indifferent. Here we should mention, however, that those few truly harmful species are capable and can cause incredible damage variable to represent any real threat to humanity. Not for nothing, we have different sciences and organizations that deal with the study of the insects.
The good news is that the damage caused by some types of insects are insignificant in comparison with the use of many other species listed in ecosystems and food webs. We also mention the fact that even so-called biofatstories in the economic reality, and farming industry invertebrate for use in biological warfare or in fighting various diseases in medicine, a fact for decades ..
For now listed, but due to many other factors that would hardly can describe in a single article, insects are a favorite subject of many contemporary artists. One of them is very interesting photographer, musician and artist Thomas Shahan that in your macro photography series we met a very attractive way with these "bugs" ..
At first glance, and he says it is very difficult to work with arthropods! But I managed to carefully study the behavior of insects, and a large dose of luck befell him, is not able to do a small amount of images with significant quality that allows him to make the big step to successful macro photography ...
