Show wonder of the beci ineat world entomologists generally concede that u upward awa id of onehundred one hundred thousand spec species ies of I 1 insects ns acts have been recognized recognize d and classified i fled some authors even place the number at two hundred thousand and it is even believed that th this vasi s number does not represent ma more ar than one tenth of the number which actually inhabit the globe one half of these belong to the Cole opte r a or beetles 0 of f the fhe butterflies le p id op there ther e are afif fifteen teen thousand species and an equal number may be credited to the hymenoptera bees wasps etc the bugs in general anti and the Dip tern flies the locusts grasshoppers etc etca are much less numerous and of the netted winged insects there are probably less than two thousand |