Question

Members of the class Insecta are best adapted to living on?

I originally a was the answer, but I started doubting as they have adapted to living on all places in the world, but they are best adapted land. Am I correct?

Answer 1

Insects belong to a class under phylum Arthropoda.

Explanation:

Members of class Insecta are definitely adapted for living on land.

• The chitinous exoskeleton helps insects to prevent loss of water from body.
• Three pair of legs help them to do a lot of things to live actively in their environment: they can walk, run, crawl, hop, climb, hold and can also hang.
• Insects breathe air, even those which are living in water; for which they have spiracular openings and branched tubular tracheae .
• As insects live on land they must conserve water, hence there is excretion of semi solid uric acid rich nitrogenous waste product.
• Then there are insects with wings.

Insects are absent mainly in saline water.

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