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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Sirex wasp

Animals; Insects

Sirex wasps are metallic blue with orange brown wings. Females have pointed abdomens and orange brown legs. Males have a broad orange band on the abdomens and dark brown legs. The female has a spike ...

Silent leaf runner

Animals; Insects

The silent leaf-runner is a small cricket. Adult has dark brown body with lighter legs. Nymph is pale colour. They are predatory crickets

Sheep blowfly

Animals; Insects

The sheep blowfly has greenish body with metallic sheen, and a silver head.

Red banded jezebel

Animals; Insects

The upper wing surface of the red-banded jezebel butterfly is white with black border at the outer wing edge. Female butterflies have broader black border than males. The underside of the hindwings ...

Red bull ant

Animals; Insects

The red bull ant is one of the largest species of ants in the world. They have a venomous sting that is capable of causing severe pain for a day or two. Red bull ants have yellowish mandibles, ...

Twenty eight spot ladybird

Animals; Insects

Most ladybirds are beneficial to the garden, but twenty eight spot ladybirds can be leaf eating pests. They are orange with 13 black spots on each wing cover. ( That only makes 26 spots - so where ...

Tussock moth

Animals; Insects

Tussock moths are fairly large moths with body covered in long scales that look like hair or fur. The wings are held back either flat or in a roof shape. The antennae are tucked back alongside the ...