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.

Industry: Animals

Add a new term

Contributors in Insects

alice1

Beijing, China

Terms

Blossaries

Followers

Become a Contributors

Insects

Trilobite cockroach

Animals; Insects

The trilobite cockroach is a native species that spends most of its time under leaf litter or under logs. They live in small colonies and can communicate with each other using scent. The young have ...

Small paper wasp

Animals; Insects

Polistes stigma is a small paper wasp. It is rich brown colour with lighter orange brown legs and antennae. The end of the abdomen is banded with yellow. The wings have a dark spot near the tip of ...

Urticating anthelid moth

Animals; Insects

The adult urticating anthelid moth is varies in colour from grey brown to orange brown. It has pattern of wavy lines parallel to the outer edge of the forewings and hindwings. There are two small ...

Variable ladybird narrow striped form

Animals; Insects

Yet another colour and pattern variation of the variable ladybird. This ladybird is orange with three black stripes along the length of the body - one down each wing cover and one down the centre ...

Variable ladybird

Animals; Insects

The variable ladybird is a small beetle with four spots on each wing. They are orange or orange-yellow. Usually the spots are quite large blotches, but sometimes the spots are quite small. They are ...

Ulysses swallowtail

Animals; Insects

The upper side of the ulysses swallowtail butterfly is beautiful iridescent blue with contrasting black wing margins. The hindwings have a long tail with a lobe on the end. The underside of the wings ...

Pink bellied moth

Animals; Insects

The pink bellied moth varies in colour from pink to brown. They have a brown or yellow line across the upper surface of each wing. The forewings curve upwards at the tips. the underside of the wings ...