The Amazon Rainforest and surrounding region has the most biodiversity of any were else on earth and no other life form is more diverse than the insects of the Amazon. No one can put any accurate estimate on how many species there are but it has been estimated to be around 30 million considering 700 species of beetles have been found on one tree alone. The rainforest canopy is the location of greatest abundance of species of insects can be found. The canopy has only been explored for the last 20 years and poorly documented were almost all are entirely new to science and rarely can two specimens be found of the same species. To suggest a relevant news story for the main page, refer to the criteria then add your suggestion at the candidates page. ... The name Amazon may refer to several concepts: Geography The Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, and Amazon Basin through which it flows Amazonas, the name of several administrative divisions in South America named after the river, including: Amazonas Department, Colombia Amazonas Region, Peru Amazonas State, Brazil Amazonas State, Venezuela Amazônia... The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ... Rainforests are the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of life. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ... Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the most diverse groups of insects. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... In biology, specimen is an individual animal or a plant or a microorganism that is used as a representative to study the properties of the whole population of that species. ...

Methods of collecting insects are to fog the trees with insecticides or by netting them have proven to work to some effect. The insects in the Amazon like all tropical biomes are larger and more colorful than there temperate counterparts. butterfly number 7,000 species compared to 20,000 worldwide. One acre may have 70,000 species of insects alone. The rate of new species being discovered annually is around 10,000 with a majority in the Amazon River basin. The reason for such high diversity is due to the age of the forest around 100 million years old. Also the stable climate has allowed life forms to fill and create more niches in the ecosystem. But most of all is the relation with insects and plant, insects are almost inseparable from plants because they both require each other to survive and all pollination is done by insects. While in the Amazon most species of plants have only one species of moth or beetle to pollinate them successfully. So the enormous amount of species of insects is obvious by the number of plant and tree species in the rainforest numbering 100,000 trees and 400,000 plants are known in the rain forest with many more waiting to be discovered. Unfortunately the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest is driving many insect species to extinction before they can even be identified or seen by man. Each day dozens are going extinct because many species only live on a few acres range. The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... In Ecology, a biome is a major regional group of distinctive plant and animal communities well adapted to the regions physical environment. ... For other uses of the term butterfly, see butterfly (disambiguation). ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... The Amazon River (occasionally River Amazon; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) of South America is one of the two longest rivers on Earth, the other being the Nile in Africa. ... Diversity is the presence of a wide range of variation in the qualities or attributes under discussion. ... In ecology, the word ecosystem is an abbreviation of the term, ecological system. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... A flower-fly pollinating a Common Daisy (Bellis perennis) Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). ... u fuck in ua ... A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded function as carbon dioxide sinks, animal habitats, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earths biosphere. ... In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of taxa. ...

External links

• http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/insects.html
• http://amazoninsect.com/