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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Fire ant

Animals; Insects

Fire ants are reddish brown with a darker brown abdomen. Nests usually contain a variety of sizes of ants. The ants are very aggressive around the nest and can give a painful sting which causes a ...

European house borer

Animals; Insects

He European house borer is a pest species of longicorn (longhorn) beetle from Europe. It is a dark grey beetle with two pair of light grey horizontal bands on the elytra. The thorax is hairy with two ...

Eublemma moth

Animals; Insects

This eublemma is an attractive small moth with broad pink band on each forewing. The pink band forms a V-shape when wings are at rest. The head is white and the thorax is buff coloured. The pink band ...

Evening brown

Animals; Insects

The evening brown is a large orange brown butterfly with mottled brown underside. It has four small eye spots on the underside of the hind wing. It rests on the ground with its wings raised and takes ...

Fig tree leaf beetle

Animals; Insects

The fig tree leaf beetle has brown wing covers and a yellowish brown head and thorax. There is a black spot on the thorax and at the base of the wing covers

Goliath stick insect

Animals; Insects

The goliath stick insect is one of Australia's largest phasmids. It is green with some yellowish patches on the head, thorax and legs. The wings are green with red markings on the underside. ...

Golden spider beetle

Animals; Insects

The golden spider beetle is brown and covered with golden yellow hair. The body shape resembles a spider with rounded abdomen, narrow thorax and rounded head. It has long thin legs and long segmented ...