do insects pass wind?
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Termites produce alot of Methane.\nThey are the largest source of emitting this gas into our atmosphere and contribute to the greenhouse effect and global warming.
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Yes they do. In fact, all insects have hearts but they sure don't look like our big mammalian hearts. A mosquito's heart is a long, skinny, fragile tube that runs along its back, starting near the aNnus', to the chest cavity (the thorax). The tube actually extends to its head but only the abdomen part has muscles to contract and is called the heart.\nA bug's heart contracts (as ours does) to squeeze green (or colorless) blood forward through the heart from chamber to chamber toward the thorax. There the heart simplifies into a plain tube (the aorta) that carries the blood (called hemolymph) to the head. The blood sloshes around in the head, bathing the brain and organs. When each chamber of the heart relaxes, valves open and blood rushes into the heart from the body cavity — but not via blood vessels. \n\nThe blood circulates freely in the body cavity making direct contact with internal tissues and organs. It delivers nutrients, salts, and hormones and whisks away wastes with each heartbeat.\n\nAnuradha
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Very minute claws on the feet that allow them to grip. Some insects actually have a sticky substance on their feet that allows them to stick to surfaces.
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Insects exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between their tissues and the air by a system of air-filled tubes called tracheae.  Tracheae open to the outside through small holes called spiracles.  Among the smaller or less active insects, gas exchange though the tracheal system is by simple diffusion.
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when you consider that wind is comprised of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and other gases with little to no color the question becomes how could you see wind. sure you can see results of air circulation like moving plants, dust, and papers moving, but you are not seeing air or wind merely the results of it moving. smoke in the air is about the closest you can get to seeing air itself move.
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They are "cold blooded."  Unlike warm blooded mammals like humans, flies and other insects do not produce their own heat.   They need to get heat from outside sources, like the sun or the air.  When it's cold, they move slower because their whole physiology has slowed down.
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wind is the movement of air\njust like waves are the movement of water
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Surface tension, or the attraction of water molecules sideways and inwards at the surface of the water, cause water to act like an elastic trampoline. This lets the animal float without breaking the surface.\n\nTo propel itself forward, the insect's feet must push water backward (for every action of the bug there is an equal and opposite reaction on the water). The rowing action of the legs produces miniature vortices (whirlpools) which move backward from the bug's feet.
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insect crawls and bug can fly
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For a while, humans had a firm grip on the aerodynamics of fixed wing flight, and found that those rules didn't correctly explain the aerodynamics of moving bumblebee wings.\n\nNone of which menas that our understanding of flixed wing flight was hopelessly flawed, or that bumblebees fly with the help of tiny angels, or anything like that.  It just means that you can't accurataly understand a phenomena by applying inapplicable theories to it.  \n\nNow , we know the aerodynamics of bumblebees better; specifically, we know the aerodynamics of the small vortices created by insect wings better, so that I believe we do now have accurate hypotheses to apply to bumblebees flight.
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Yes they do.\n\nQuote from article found at http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/ \n\n---quote begins---\nAlthough ants can be seen in various places from spring to autumn, they go into hibernation in the winter. In addition, from spring to autumn, many ants are seen to come from, and go into, the entrances of their nests, but these entrances are closed in winter and no ants are seen to come from there.\nWhere do ants pass the winter?\n---quote ends---\n\nFind out more from\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/BE/Kingdom/5657/5657e.html
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txgurl, I am going to have to disagree with the question itself, and, as a result, answer your question.\n#1, you say that wind cannot be seen.  The real statement would be that wind cannot be seen with the naked eye.  Wind is the dramatic passage of air molecules from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.  This means, that wind is actually air particles zooming past you.  If you were to pause the wind mid-stride and put part of it under a microscope, you would see millions of molecules and tiny particles.  That is what wind is.  So, it can be seen and has been seen, just not with the naked eye, because it's elements are too small.\n#2, Light cannot be touched.  Acutally, scientists believe that light is made up of photons, which are mass-less particle with a standing wavelength of energy inside.  When these particles strike your hand, the outer shell breaks appart, and the energy is released into your hand in the form of energy, both visible and thermal.  So, for the brief second that the photon is in contact with your hand before the shell dissolves, the light can be touched.  It is just so tine (mass-less in fact) and there are so many of them, that our physical senses cannot detect them.\n#3, Smell has no color.  It is believed that all the senses are interrelated.  This means that light has smell and feel and taste, that color has a taste smell and feel, etc.  How is it that some insects are attracted to red flowers and yet they are color blind?  It is because they can smell the color.  Each color has a place in the smell spectrum as well as in the light spectrum.  But, to answer your question, we cannot smell it because, like out eyes can only detect a small range of light, out noses can only smell a small portion of the odor spectrum.\n#4, Sound has no shape.  Actually, sound is in the shape of a sphere.  Once again, just like wind, there would be no sound in a vacuum.  When a sound is made, the sound waves oscillate out from the source from every direction.  Sound travels though solids faster than through gases.  This is how they detect earthquakes.  They have instruments that pick up and map the sound impulses through the gound.  This makes a picture on a map, and they can thus tell the direction and power of the earthquake.  have you ever seen a jet break the sound barrior?  At the moment of the break, a cloud of moisture is formed in a cone shape around the jet.  This cone shape can be demonstrated by blowing up a balloon part of the way.  Then poke your finger hard into one side of the balloon.  The balloon will become shaped like a distorted cone.  Now, this is like the sound.  Keep pushing and the baloon will pop.  Kinda like the sonic boom caused when the jet breaks the sound barrier.  This is the shape of sound.  Again, our sences are too finite to be able to detect the individual molecules and thus, we cannot see the shape.  But a microscope could and computers can detect and generate images of what we could see, if only our sences were more powerful.  Hope this is of some assistance to you.
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I have lived in MANY places.  Insects were always most prevalent in hot and wet places, followed by warm and wet, followed by warm and dry/wet.  Most cold places had few insects whether wet or dry.   Deserts cold at night, hot in day and very dry have very few insects, often blown there by winds and dying.\n\nConclusion:  Insects like warm and wet.  Either colder or dryer detracts from this, but cold is the worst.\n\nSO, that is why more insects during summer, EXCEPT that there will be fewer in places that are drier.  Yes?\n\nPlants which they eat grow best during summer.  Not all insects eat plants.\n\nSome insects are very adaptable.  There are zillions ! of mosquitos in Alaska, but they are causing trouble after the snow has thawed and there are many pockets of water being warmed by extended summer daylight.  One more proof of warm and wet, this time for a non-plant eater.\n\nAlaskan mosquitos attack herds of carribou and moose and people driving everyone absolutely nuts!
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they hide in places you never look in.  flies, like many other bugs, are active during daytime when it is warm. at night, when it is cool, they rest in sheltered areas like under the roof, in pipes, on the walls.  moths and other night bugs do the opposite.
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Hmmm...wow...a VERY general question.  This is out of my field, but your other questions were so engaging I decided to see what else you have asked...\n\nFor the first one (how do they thrive/what modifications do they have). I am going to list things insects all have in common and that kill them when things go wrong with these systems:\nQ1:\n1) A chitinous exoskeleton, usually with a waxy covering that conserves water and provides mechanical protection.\n2) A system of spicules that enables oxygen/CO2 exchange without having to resort to an overly flexible out membrane keeping that mechanical protection sound. \n3) Segmented bodies and legs to allow greater flexibility of movement than is achievable solely with a segmented exoskeleton\n4) Wings for flight or additional mechanical protection\n5) Rudimentary circulatory system (this one might not qualify since I bet their ancestors had something like this too.)\n\nQ2:\nThere are a LOT of kinds of neoptera and I don't know much evolutionary biology so I will not attempt that one. Probably one trend has to do with the falling partial pressure of oxygen over the past few hundred million years and the guys getting smaller to cope. They all have flexible wings.  I dunno what else.  Sorry.\n\nQ3:  Compare flies to butterflies/moths/skippers.\nCommonalities: all 4 wings have flight function; larval stage that pupates; adults have tubular mouth parts\nDifferences:  antenna, scaled wings. \nThat is a start anyway. \n\nQ4:  Similarities: Chitinous exoskeletons, segmented bodies (but different numbers of segments), jointed legs, \nDifferences: wings vs. more legs, compound vs. simple eyes, pupation/metamorphosis vs. nymphal stages\n\nQ5:  Ecto means outside, and everyone know what parasitic means, so this would include lice, fleas, maybe mosquitos (they only suck blood for egg laying, you know), certain kinds of flies and true bugs.  They mostly live on blood, but I think some eat dead skin.  Geez, what else CAN you eat living on the outside of a critter?\n\nWhew.  Tough.
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Yes, they have hearts, to circulate their body fluids, and some may even be said to have 2 (or more?) hearts. So insects are good-hearted little animals. However, their circulation isn't as efficient as in larger animals which have a completely-closed system of arteries and veins (insects lack this).
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The blades of wind turbines kill birds and bats and tons of insects.\n\nThere is some evidence that the air turbulence disturbs weather patterns locally.\n\nThere are also problems related to making them in the first place, and when disposing of them when they are worn out.\n\nhttp://www.awea.org/faq/tutorial/wwt_environment.html