Insect Incubation and Biomimicry

How can creating a suitable indoor environment for insects enhance our understanding of their ecological importance and the benefits they bring to our homes and the broader environment?

Creating a suitable indoor environment for insects can deepen our understanding of their ecological importance by highlighting their role in biodiversity, pest control, and ecosystem health, while also illustrating the numerous benefits they bring to both our homes and the broader environment.

Biomimicry; What is it?

Biomimetics is an interesting way to elude current and past environmental issues, in which robots built by humans are programmed to mimic biotic beings but artificially. 

I have created an incubator for the Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, which allows me to further study their behaviour around humans and how they actually assist us in our day-to-day lives! But what now? Well, I have decided that I will use what I study on that Madagascar Hissing Cockroach to deepen my understanding about their pathogens, virulence and behaviour through robotics! With biomimicry, I will be able to model and design the MHC, and program their behaviours!

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Pulsifer, D. P., Lakhtakia, A., Martín-Palma, R. J., & Pantano, C. G. (2011, March). Engineered biomimicry: polymeric replication of surface features found on insects. In Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication (Vol. 7975, pp. 156-163). SPIE.