Title: Lecture 21-02: Insect Biodiversity and Taxonomy
Date: 2021-08-23 12:45
Tags: lecture

## Video: Planet Bob
[![Planet Bob](/images/PlanetBob.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mwuASmP7TfU)
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## Presentation (PDF): [Insect Biodiversity and Taxonomy](/pdfs/nomenclature.pdf)
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## Reference: Global insect biomass
A four-year old asked "Which weighs more: all of the people or all of the bugs?".
The answer is given in an interesting [online article](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-bugs-of-the-world-could-squish-us-all/).
Another recent online article presents a rather disturbing
[visualization of the total biomass of our own species](https://futurism.com/disturbing-simulation-shows-what-would-happen-if-you-blended-up-every-living-human).

## Video: TED talk on beetles by Max Barclay
[![VIDEO: Max Barclay talks about beetles](/images/MaxBarclay.png)](https://youtu.be/ZGcu8WwheUU)

## REFERENCE: [Our Island's Insects and Their Relatives](/pdfs/InsectBiology.pdf)

## Online References
* [Insects of Guam I and 2 (Bulletins 172 and 189)](http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/bpbm-bulletins.html)
* [Insects of Micronesia (PDFs)](http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/iom.html)
* [Online catalog for the University of Guam insect collection](https://scan-bugs.org/portal/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=180)
* [Insects of Micronesia iNaturalist project](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/insects-of-micronesia)