Tag: Arthropods

Over 67,000 species make up the diverse group of crustaceans to which shrimp belong. This often-debated topic asks: is shrimp an insect or a fish? The simple biological answer is that they are neither, but are in fact, crustaceans.

For every person on Earth, there are an estimated 1.4 billion insects, a figure that powerfully illustrates the planet's dominant insect population. While that number refers to the vast ecological ratio, a more personal answer to "how many bugs for one person?" involves the surprising, and often unintentional, consumption and cohabitation that occurs every day.