Talk:Respiratory system of insects
Add topic | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Untitled
[edit]A section on arachnid book lungs needs to be added. 199.168.151.108 (talk) 15:02, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Insect Size and Atmospheric Oxygen
[edit]It seems that diminishing levels of atmospheric are not the primary reason for decreasing size in insects. '"...around the end of the Jurassic and beginning of the Cretaceous period, about 150 million years ago, all of a sudden oxygen goes up but insect size goes down. And this coincides really strikingly with the evolution of birds.” With predatory birds on the wing, the need for maneuverability became a driving force in the evolution of flying insects, favoring smaller body size.' I'm no entomologist but I've read a number of research articles over the past decade that certainly complicate those claims in the Wiki article. I'll link to one here but there are quite a few others: RobotBoy66 (talk) 09:39, 20 October 2025 (UTC)