Fairy Fly
Ants
Walking Stick
“And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up MY JEWELS.”
(Malachi 3:17)
To my dear Grandchildren
The World of Insects (Part 1)
“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not;
which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not Me? saith the Lord.”
(Jeremiah 5:21-22)
Do you know how to tell if something you see crawling or flying is really an insect? One quick way is to count its legs. Insects always have six legs—no more and no less. Spiders are not true insects because they have eight legs.
The word insecta means “in sections,” and this is also true. All true insects have three body sections joined together—head, thorax and abdomen. The legs and wings are supported by the middle thorax section. Most insects have four wings, but some have only two, and some don’t have any.
When the Lord God created the world and everything in it, He must have had much pleasure in creating the insects since they represent the largest group of visible forms of life. There are over 900,000 species of living insects that are known. Ants are probably the most abundant insect species on earth. Some insects are so small they can only be seen through a microscope. The fairy fly, for instance, is only one-hundredth of an inch long but is perfect in all its parts. At the large end of the scale is the fifteen-inch insect calledwalking stick, found in New Guinea.
In proportion to their size, insects are the strongest creatures on earth. In experiments, a bumble bee was able to pull more than 300 times its weight, and a beetle carried more that 800 times its weight! When insects walk, their front and back legs on one side and their middle leg on the other side all move at the same time. The Creator may have arranged this so they can keep their balance and are always firmly on the surface.
Most insects begin life as eggs, hatching as larvae or nymphs, then change to pupae and finally appear as fully formed adults. Having no skeleton or bones, they have been given an armour-like skin for protection. As they grow larger, this splits open and drops off, and a new protective skin soon hardens and replaces it. This happens several times as the insect grows larger.
Insects breathe, but they have no lungs; they hear, but they have no ears; they smell, but have no noses; they have eyes, but they cannot close them. Their hearts can pump blood backward or forward. These strange features about insects remind us of the opening verse of this article. The Lord scolded those people who refused to use their eyes to see His ways or to use their ears to hear His Word. No wonder He called them “foolish people, and without understanding" (Jeremiah 5:21). We hope none of you will be so foolish!
“Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts” (Hebrews 4:7).
(To be continued)
Love you all - Grandpa
No comments:
Post a Comment