Hi Steemians,
Nature is so good, well planned and organized in such a way that man’s influence to its sustainability can be considered as a negligible factor. The soil is rich in itself with water/minerals and grows a variety of species of plants which grows to maturity and continue to propagate the numbers by means of natural factors. Animals which are both domestic/wild, carnivores/ herbivores and man as a super-animal (omnivore) barely depend on the products of the plants and lower animals as preys in sustaining life. This principally on feeding and transport as horses and camels greatly contribute in movements over long distances.
Some insects, birds and wind play their vital role in crops to realize good yields, but man and other animals merely harvest from these plants. Bees, butterflies and other insects effectively work for these crops to largely produce while other insects like locusts and some others are pests to the green plants with dreadful effects as they diminish the green vegetation by eating off their leaves. Still in line with these insects, some are vectors to human health like mosquitoes and houseflies while others are very harmful like termites that destroy right into homes where books and other valuable documents are done away with.
The feeding habits of man across the world are versed with cultural values that developed over the years with variation from one cultural setting/community to the other. These feeding habits include different kinds of insects in their different stages of metamorphosis that are eaten by man. Examples are locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, green grasshoppers and larva of beetle from raffia-palm environments just to state a few. The drawings of the insects by me in the attached photo below is very influential in learning about insects from nursery schools to higher levels of learning.
