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What insects are warm-blooded?

I know some are cold-blooded, so if some are, then there has to be an opposite.

Posted - September 23, 2016

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  • 34
    Do you know of any cold blooded mammals?
      September 23, 2016 10:53 AM MDT
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  • 2515
    Of course! Some Republicans are totally cold-blooded.
      September 23, 2016 10:56 AM MDT
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  • 2500

    Do you mean other than bankers and lawyers ?

      September 23, 2016 11:05 AM MDT
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  • 2500

    Depends on how you define "warm-blooded", or even how you define "blood".

    If we limit it to organisms that are able to generate and contain heat within their bodies then the hummingbird hawk moth probably qualifies. There's even a fish, the opah, that's now classified as "warm-blooded".

      September 23, 2016 11:17 AM MDT
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  • 44619

    And some species of Tuna.

      September 23, 2016 1:56 PM MDT
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  • 44619

    Insects don't have "blood" as we define it.

      September 23, 2016 1:56 PM MDT
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  • 5354

    All insects are cold blooded. Or rather unheated ;) A fly sitting on a hot rock may have hotter blood than us.

    Internal temperature regulation was invented back in dinosaur days when the big problem was to cool down those huge bodies. They tried a lot of ways, like this fellow with 'cooling fins' on his back:

    The Insect family branched off long before the dinosaurs appeared. They never grew big enough for metabolic heat to be a problem, so insects are all cold-blooded.

      September 23, 2016 6:06 PM MDT
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  •   September 23, 2016 6:10 PM MDT
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