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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Tradescantia

Animals; Insects

Genus of about 65 species of creeping, trailing, or tuft-forming, fibrous- tuberous-rooted, evergreen perennials from woodland, scrub, or disturbed ground in North, Central, and South America. The ...

Veltheimia

Animals; Insects

Genus of 2 species of bulbous perennials from grassy and rocky hillsides in South Africa.They are grown for their rosettes of thick, wavy leaves, and for their terminal racemes of pendent, spring ...

Washingtonia

Animals; Insects

Genus of 2 species of single-stemmed palms from rocky, arid areas in S.W. US and N. Mexico. Washingtonia filifera & Washingtonia robusta may be used as a house plants.

Argentine ant

Animals; Insects

Argentine Ant Workers are small dark brown or medium brown ants with smooth shiny bodies. The mandibles have five to eight large teeth and five to thirteen smaller serrations (denticles). The head is ...

Ash whitefly

Animals; Insects

The adult Ash Whitefly is a pale whitish whitefly with slightly mottled wings. The winged adults flutter around like tiny moths when disturbed. They are very similar to many other different species ...

Assassin bug

Animals; Insects

The Assassin Bug is a medium to large sized bug with a large curved mouth part for piercing and sucking. It has long legs. Adult bugs are brown in colour with transparent wings. Nymphs are black with ...

American soldier fly

Animals; Insects

The American Soldier Fly looks like a wasp with black body and dark wings. The eyes appear to have a pattern of blue and green markings. At rest it holds its wings folded on top of each other along ...