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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Carob moth

Animals; Insects

The carob moth is a drab grey moth mottled with white. It has a ridge of raised scales on the forewing close to the base. The caterpillars are white

Common furniture beetle

Animals; Insects

The common furniture beetle is an introduced pest to Australia. The adult beetles are brown with yellowish hairs, and reddish-brown legs. The first segment of the thorax forms a hood which hides the ...

Coffee hawk moth

Animals; Insects

The coffee hawk moth has transparent wings and a stout body like a bumble bee. The head and thorax are greenish, and the abdomen is yellow with a black band, and a square black mark on the segment ...

Common crow butterfly

Animals; Insects

The common crow butterfly is a large black butterfly with white spots on the fore wings and a band of elongated spots on the hind wings. The outer wing margins have small white spots. The males have ...

Common brown butterfly

Animals; Insects

The common brown butterfly is dark brown and orange brown. The female butterflies are larger with bolder markings. The outer half of the female's forewings are brown with orange blotches and a single ...

Common garden katydid

Animals; Insects

This common garden katydid resembles the gum leaf katydid but is smaller. They have bright pink and yellow markings on the abdomen that is hidden by the wings. The males make a sound to attract ...

Common eupselia moth

Animals; Insects

The common eupselia moth is a greyish brown color. The forewings are greying with darker grey brown neat the tips. Their is a dark semicircular patch on the inner edge of each forewing. The hindwings ...