Characteristics. 1  Closed pockets of tissue that can be filled with fluid or pus. 2  Can appear anywhere on the skin. 3  Smooth to the touch; feels like a pea underneath the surface. 4  Slow growing and generally is painless and benign. 5  Only needs attention if it becomes infected or inflamed.
It has long been recognized and documented that insects are the most diverse group of organisms, meaning that the numbers of species of insects are more than any other group. In the world, some 900 thousand different kinds of living insects are known. This representation approximates 80 percent of the world's species. The true figure of living species of insects can only be estimated from present and past studies.
July 18, 2014 by Karen Hill | Filed Under: Animals. There are people all over the world who eat bugs and insects as food, and the practice is called Entomophagy, which comes from the phrase âinsect eatingâ in Greek. Entomophagy also applies to other animal groups including insects that eat other insects, birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals. Insects and nematodes that obtain their nutrition from other insects are sometimes called entomophagous.