Insect lifespans:
One of the wonders of creation and common to most people is that insects live short lives that range between weeks and months and never reach years; while the lifespan of some of them extends to less than 24 hours, and this is a perception that has some truth; but it often contains many fallacies, and we have dedicated this article to verify the truth of the matter,
Taking into consideration
that there is a very [important] question that needs careful research to know its details
and resolve it with the necessary scientific accuracy as we are accustomed to in all our articles that we publish on our company pages in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain on various social media sites.
To determine the age of an insect is a very difficult matter. The reason for this is that the insect goes through several stages that are difficult to track and determine the age of each one because some of them die before they are complete and become an adult insect. These stages that it goes through start with the egg, then the cocoon, then the larva, then the adult insect. However, scientists were able to take average ages for these stages, which enabled them to eventually know the age of the insect after it reached the stage of perfection. There is also another reason that makes it difficult to determine the age of the insect, which is the difficulty of monitoring specific individuals of an insect, and the difficulty of knowing the age of the insect at that stage before death; despite the provision of specific artificial environments by specialized scientists to accurately determine the age.
Let's review a number of models for the ages of some insects
The first model:
(The annoying cicada or cicada)
After emerging from the egg
, it lives as a worm for between 13 and 17 years, and after it becomes an adult insect with wings, it lives for less than a month.
The second model:
Mayfly
After emerging from the egg, it lives as an aquatic insect in fresh water for a year, then becomes an adult insect and lives for 24 hours, sometimes five minutes or less.
The third and fourth models:
Wood beetles and long-horned beetles:
Wood beetles live 40 years, and long-horned beetles live 35 years
The fifth model:
Honey bees
The worker bee, or what we sometimes call the worker, lives between 4 and 7 weeks, and the male lives 4 months; but he dies once the queen is fertilized; the queen herself lives from 3 to 4 years.
The sixth model:
Ants
The worker ant lives from one to 3 years; while the male lives for a few weeks, and the queen lives 30 years; while the queen of the wood-eating termite lives 50 years
The seventh model
Spiders
Young spiders live to an age close to two years; The giant wolf spider lives up to 25 years, provided that it is raised in a laboratory under the supervision of health and nutritional specialists.
The eighth model:
The snail
It lives in the laboratory between 15 and 25 years, where health and nutritional care and supervision of its life based on scientific foundations may be behind providing the reasons for its life to these numbers; As for in nature and outside the laboratory, it lives between two to three years; or between 5 to 7 years, and this is due to environmental conditions and the types of snails themselves.
The ninth model:
The mosquito
The female mosquito lives in
nature between one to two weeks, and in the laboratory or laboratory it may reach a month, where specialists provide special means of livelihood for this, where the dangers of nature are reduced;
As for the male, its lifespan reaches one month.
The tenth model
The night cricket
(Cricket)
It is known for its annoying sound, especially at night. The adult insect
of it lives for several months,
and large numbers of it die
in the winter due to the cold; While if the insect lives in human homes, it chooses warm places where it lays its eggs, which may hatch after a year, while the insect itself lives in the human home for about a year as well.
The eleventh model:
Lice
It is called or nicknamed (mothers' nightmare) considering that part of the mother's responsibilities in raising her children is cleanliness. Since this cursed insect constantly reappears and spreads in children's hair, mothers
are always complaining about this insect in the heads of children and their clothes.
For your information, the female lays six eggs a day.
And if lice live in furniture, clothes, or other things,
it needs a human or animal host where there is warmth and food.
The insect starts in the human head as an egg for a period of 7 to 10 days, then as a small louse for about two weeks, then as a large louse for a month.
*The examples of insects and their ages that we mentioned are of course very limited in number; But all human beings must pay attention to the great size of the dangers resulting from these insects and others that we have not mentioned, despite their short lifespan; Their dangers are represented in the increase in their numbers and areas of spread and the severe damage they cause that can be exacerbated and spread;
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