The Unsolved Mystery Of The Missing Insects

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Where are all the ocean insects? The only known group of insects able to colonize the sea only live on the surface. Meet Halobates!

Article: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001570
Article: Citation: Cheng L, Mishra H (2022) Why did only
one genus of insects, Halobates, take to the high
seas? PLoS Biol 20(4): e3001570. https://doi.org/
10.1371/journal.pbio.3001570

Cheng L, Frank JH. Marine insects and their reproduction. 1993; 31:479–506.

Insect jumping: Yang E, Son J, Lee S, Jablonski P, Kim H, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons