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Levon Biss
Levon Biss is a British photographer born in London. Throughout his career Levon’s work has covered a wide range of photographic genres, but he is best known for his unique macro photography. His large scale photographs are regularly exhibited around the world and his prints are housed in numerous museum and private collections. His photos have been featured in publications, like TIME- and The New York Times as magazine covers. His photography on insects in currently used in numerous school curriculums around the globe to educate and inspire future generations on the wonders of nature.
In 2020 Levon Biss turned his attention to botany with The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits a photographic study of the carpology collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. His most recent exhibition Extinct & Endangered was released in 2022 and is currently on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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All about insects
In terms of numbers of species, insects form the largest class in the Arthropod phylum – both globally and in Finland. More than 900,000 insect species have been identified, but estimates of the actual number range between 2 million and 30 million species. Other types of arthropod are the entognathans, arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods. The most important characteristics of insects are a body that consists of a head, thorax and abdomen. They have three pairs of legs located on the thorax. Insect larvae can also have several pairs of false legs on their abdomen. As adults, many insects have two sets of wings.
We see insects in all types of habitats and they use almost anything as food: living and dead plants, animals and mushrooms as well as manure, blood and other bodily secretions.
Metamorphosis in insects can occur in three forms: little or none (for example, silverfish, firebrats), gradual (true bugs) or complete (butterflies and beetles). The majority of insects belong to orders that undergo complete metamosphosis. As is the case with all arthropods, insects have to moult – or shed their skin – as they grow. The number of times an insect moults during the larva stage varies greatly between different species.
The importance of insects to biodiversity cannot be overemphasised. They hunt other insects and are prey for many organisms, they pollinate plants, improve the soil, and recycle nutrients. These services are also extremely important for people. Without them, the conditions for humans to live on this planet would be much poorer.
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