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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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Diamondback moth
Animals; Insects
The diamondback moth has long narrow forewings with the tips turned upwards. It has a zigzag band of cream or light brown along the trailing edge of the forewings. When the wings are closed, these ...
Dengue mosquito
Animals; Insects
The dengue mosquito is a pest mosquito and can be a carrier of Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus. The female mosquito is dark coloured with white markings on ...
Dark mealworm
Animals; Insects
The adult dark mealworm is a dull black beetle with flattened shape and parallel sides. It varies in colour from brown to black. The larvae of dark mealworms are dark brown. The adult beetle is ...
Fiddler beetle
Animals; Insects
The fiddler beetle or rose chafer is a dark brown scarab beetle with distinctive green or yellow markings in a violin shape. The abdomen is banded black and yellow or green. They are strong fliers ...
False garden mantid
Animals; Insects
False garden mantids have two colour forms - they can be green or light brown with a dark spot on inner side of each of the strong spiny front "arms". Adults have a large abdomen. Females have short ...
European wasp
Animals; Insects
The European wasp is a social insect with bold black and yellow bands. The black bands have arrow-shaped black markings down the centre of the abdomen, and there are pairs of small black spots on the ...
Eucalyptus long horned borer
Animals; Insects
The Eucalyptus long-horned borer is mainly dark reddish brown. There is a yellowish brown area in middle of the elytra, and a yellowish brown patch near the tip. There is a zigzag line bisecting the ...
