Insects

Insects

Any of numerous usually small arthropod animals of the class Insecta, having an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen and usually having two pairs of wings.

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Leafhopper

Animals; Insects

These leafhoppers are so tiny that they can come through the mesh of the fly screen of windows. They are attracted to house lights in large numbers on warm summer nights, and many of them can com ...

Leafroller moth

Animals; Insects

Leafroller moths are small moths in the tortricidae family. There may be several species shown on this page. They are all mainly brown with greyish markings near the tail. The hind wings are curved ...

Leafcutter bee

Animals; Insects

Leafcutter bees are mainly black with white hairs. They cut oval pieces of leaves and put them in a crack or hole to make their nest. The cells in the nest are made of overlapping pieces of leaf ...

Lesser bottle cicada

Animals; Insects

The lesser bottle cicada is green with transparent wings with green veins. Males have large hollow abdomen. Females are smaller with tapered abdomen. The males have a sound producing organ that makes ...

Green peach aphid

Animals; Insects

The green peach aphid is pale yellow-green or mid green (and can also be pink or almost black). The body is oval shaped with long siphunculi. Winged alates have black patch on the back. When viewed ...

Greenhouse whitefly

Animals; Insects

Greenhouse whitefly adults have a yellow body and white powdery wings which are held almost parallel to the body. The wings overlap and form a heart shape, and obscure the body when viewed from ...

Green tree ant

Animals; Insects

Green tree ants have a green abdomen and yellow-green thorax. They are also known as weaver ants as they weave leaves together to form their nest. They are aggressive ants and will inflict a painful ...