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Added more depth into the importance of insects and how they play a major role in the ecology of the world. Added about pollination, decomposing, and how the world would not survive without the insects. Talked about insect functions within niches and jobs within the ecology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meysarah (talk • contribs) 22:06, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Insects are a vary adaptive species and have been adapting to a multitude of ecosystem for over 400 million years. [3] Since insects are so small earth has provided them plenty of resources and niches to adapt to. They can take advantage of their size by making resources such as a leaf, piece of dirt, or sap become their main resource [4] and create an entire ecosystem around it. Since they can adapt to such small parts of our world such as a leaf then insects become on of the major contributor to biodiversity in many different niches throughout the world [3].

Being such a biodiverse species insects play a large role in ecosystems around the world through many functions they take part in. For example, nutrient recycling, through this process insects help degrade leaves on the floor of the forest which adds nutrients to the soil making it easier for plants to grow and also helps the soil retain more water[5]. The growing of strong healthy plants would affect the herbivores which affects the carnivore's survival. This is how vastly insects affect ecosystems around the world. Another important function insects do is pollination. Many plants depend on insects to help fertilize their pollen so that they can become a fit species of plants and continue to make offspring. Without the insects some plants may perish and go extinct[5]. This would be devastating to some of the resources that populations consume. Without insects to pollinate plants many resources such as apples, melons, and even almonds would not be able to produce their fruits.[5]

Talk about how without insects our world will be affected [6]

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^ "Introduction A2 - Schowalter, Timothy D.". Insect Ecology (Third Edition). San Diego: Academic Press. 2011-01-01. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9780123813510.
^ "Impact of Insects". projects.ncsu.edu.
^ "What If All of Earth's Insects Keeled Over?". Live Science.

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[1] "Introduction A2 - Schowalter, Timothy D.". Insect Ecology (Third Edition). San Diego: Academic Press. 2011-01-01. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9780123813510.

[2] "Impact of Insects". projects.ncsu.edu.

[3] "What If All of Earth's Insects Keeled Over?". Live Science.

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