Read this article to learn about the Structure and Life Cycle of Cockroach ! Cockroach (Periplaneta americana) is one of the large-sized insects. The cockroach is cosmopolitan in distribution and found mainly in tropical and damp climates. These usually inhabit kitchen, bakeries, godowns, store- rooms and sewage channels. They are nocturnal and omnivorous. It's body is dorso-ventrally flattened, distinctly segmented [...]
Read this article to learn about the Structure and Life Cycle of the Housefly ! Systematic Position Kingdom Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Genus: Musca Species: domestica The housefly (Musca domestica) is the most common of all domestic flies. The body of housefly is distinguished into head, thorax and abdomen. The head is hemispherical in shape and bears [...]
Ever since man became interested in the study of animals, more than a million species of living organisms have been discovered and described, and the process still continues. The vast number of animal species that have been identified and described, exhibit a great deal of variation in their form, habit and habitat, mode of life as well as their distribution. [...]