While insects are arthropods, not all arthropods are insects.

Not Always Insects

Arthropods have an exoskeleton, a supportive outer body structure.

Hard Body Feature

Arthropods' bodies are typically segmented into parts, like head, thorax, and abdomen.

Segmented Bodies

The word 'arthropod' is a scientific term for classifying a group of animals.

Phylum Classification

The term is often used in scientific or academic contexts, not casual conversation.

Academic Usage

Arthropods represent a major portion of Earth's biomass.

Dominant Species

 relationships that we find in these mite populations to determine not only how they're related to each other but we can use that to determine how we're related to each other and how we spread around the world and how humans moved through time it's very exciting to know that there's a tiny arthropod that that's

Are Mites Having Sex on...

 their heel all the way to the flesh. But one of the convenient things about being an arthropod is that you have to molt. And every three months or so these animals molt, and they build a new limb and it's no problem. Very, very convenient solution to that particular problem.