The insects in Sierra de Guara

Very present in Sierra de Guara as in all natural areas of the globe where not succumb to pollution such as insecticides.

Insects are a class of invertebrates of the phylum of arthropods. They are characterized by a pair of antennae, three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings (which, however, can be reduced or absent).

Insects comprise the most diverse group of animals on Earth with about a million described species … More than all other groups of animals together. More recent studies lower the number of bugs discovered between 6 and 10 million.

Terrestrial arthropods such as centipedes, millipedes, scorpions and spiders are often confused with insects because they have similar body structures.  However they are easily distinguishable, since insects have three pairs of legs. Indeed, scorpions and spiders have four pairs and lack antennas. Millipedes and centipedes and have many pairs of legs. To go ahead discovering the insects, this article of Wikipedia about insects is very complete
Each tours in Sierra de Guara organized by the Mountain guides team of Expediciones are oportunities to observe and discover amazing species.

On request, we do organise as well beekeeping worshop near Huesca to get introduced with the bees, the types of hyves (horizontal such as the “Layens hyve” very used in Spain, or  vertical such as the “Dadant hyve” more comon in France) and theirs charateristics, and all the produces made from bees : honey, propolis, wax… An oportunity to earn how bees help pollinate plants, why they are important, and the problems bees face today.

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