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Word Unit: immuno- (Latin: unbound, free from, pure; pertaining to protection against or freedom from disease).

Word Unit: in- (ig-, il-, im-, ir-).

Word Unit: in- (il-, ir-, im- (Latin: in, into, within, inside, on, toward; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: inane (Latin: inanis, empty, void; worthless, useless; foolish ).

Word Unit: incret-, increto- + (Latin: internal secretion, especially by the endocrine glands).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "internal organs, entrails, inside": ent-; enter-; fistul-; inter-; intra-; splanchn-; viscer-.

Word Unit: indigen- + (Latin: belonging to a country).

Word Unit: indulge- (Latin: to be lenient [toward], accede, take pleasure [in]; originally, "to be kind, kindness; to be long-suffering, to be patient").

Word Unit: -ine + (Greek > Latin: a suffix that is used to form hundreds of words that mean "similar to", "resembling", "like", "characterized by", or "of the nature of").

Word Unit: Information Technology (IT): Units Listed (a consolidation of cyber advances).

Word Unit: Information Technology: New Identification Tech (authentication technology ).

Word Unit: Information: Modern Implications (our learning revolution).

Word Unit: infra-, infero-, infer- (Latin: under, below, beneath).

Word Unit: infundibul-, infundibulo-, infundibuli- + (Latin: funnel; literally, "the [little] thing into which something is poured"; a funnel-shaped organ of the body).

Word Unit: inguin-, inguino-; inguen-, ingueno- + (Latin: groin).

Word Unit: ino-, in- (Greek: force, strength; seat of strength; muscle, sinew; fibrous vessel in a muscle).

Word Unit: Inoculate, its Past and Present (Latin: oculus used as a reference to "eye" to indicate something that looks like or is suggestive of a person's organ of sight including potato "eyes").

Word Unit: Insect Biotechnology (utilizing insects to produce practical substances).

Word Unit: insecto-, insect-, insecti- + (Latin: a bug; literally, "cut into," from insectum, with a notched or divided body; literally, "that which is cut up, segmented" [as the bodies of the first invertebrates to which the term was applied or appeared to be]).

An entomological unit of words about insects.

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, with: "insects, bugs, worms; invertebrates": aphidi-; api-; ascari-; culci-; Dung Beetle Survival; Dung Beetles Important; Eating Worms; entomo-; formic-; Guinea worms; helmintho-; Insects: Importance; isopter-; larvi-; lepidopter-; meliss-; mosquito; Mosquito, other Languages; Mosquitoes, Pt. 1; Mosquitoes, Pt. 2; myrmeco-; scarab; scoleco-; sphec-; taeni-; termit-; vermo-.

Word Unit: Insects and Their Economic Importance (Ecological survival depends on insects).

Love them or hate them, we need insects for global survival!

In an article that focuses on the vital ecological services provided by insects, authors John Losey and Mace Vaughan tried to focus on the services provided by “wild” insects. They did not want to include services from "domesticated or mass-reared insect species".

Emphasis was placed on the four insect services that provide value estimates: dung burial, pest control, pollination, and wildlife nutrition; because of the availability of data in these areas not because of their perceived "importance".

They based their estimations of the value of each service on projections of losses that would result if insects were not functioning at their current levels.

They estimated the annual value of these ecological services which are provided in the United States to be "at least $57 billion, an amount that justifies greater investment in the conservation of these services."

This is the "first ever estimate of 'services' provided by wild insects"; which is acknowledged as being very conservative.
It is actually only a small fraction of the actual benefits supplied by creatures considered by many to be nothing more than pests.
Without the activities of insects, human life on earth would eventually be extinguished.
Value of crop production from pollination by native insects (not just the bees): $3,000,000,000.
Crop losses averted by beneficial insects from predators or parasites of agricultral pests: $4,500,000,000.
Native pests controlled by other insects: 65 percent.
Economic losses avoided every year by burial of livestock waste by dung beetles: $380,000,000.
The number of North American bird species that are primarily insectivores: 395.

—"The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects" by John E. Losey (Cornell University entomologist) and Mace Vaughan (Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon); BioScience, Vol. 56, Nr. 4; April, 2006; pages 311-323(13); Publisher, American Institute of Biological Sciences.
Also as seen in Scientific American, July, 2006; page 18.

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, with: "insects, bugs, worms; invertebrates": aphidi-; api-; ascari-; culci-; Dung Beetle Survival; Dung Beetles Important; Eating Worms; entomo-; formic-; Guinea worms; helmintho-; insecto-; isopter-; larvi-; lepidopter-; meliss-; mosquito; Mosquito, other Languages; Mosquitoes, Pt. 1; Mosquitoes, Pt. 2; myrmeco-; scarab; scoleco-; sphec-; taeni-; termit-; vermo-.

Word Unit: insulino-, insulin-, insula-, insulo-, insul-, isle (Latin: island; derived from insul[a], "island" [used here in reference to the islands [islets] of Langerhans, irregular structures in the pancreas that produce the protein hormone insulin which is secreted into the blood where it regulates sugar metabolism]).

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