Featured Bugs

Feature Pages:

INSECTS
• Bee-flies > agile bumblebee mimics hovering at flowers.
• Bumblebees > for bumper crops.
• Bumblebee Domiciles & Nest-boxes > keeping bumblebees.
• Cockchafers or 'Maybugs' and other Chafers > noisy visitors after dark.
• Domestic Beetles > look here for beetles infesting stored food or attacking fabric materials indoors.
• Domestic Moths > look here for clothes moths and moth pests of stored food.
• Dung Beetles > natural sanitarians and the sacred beetles of Ancient Egypt.
• Glow-worms & Fire-flies > famed for their ability to emit light.
• Ground Beetles & Tiger Beetles > useful hunters in the garden.
• Hover-flies & Lacewings > a voracious double-act against aphid pests.
• Ladybirds > colourful allies in the 'aphid-war' (and how they differ from similar looking Leaf Beetles).
• Sacred Insects of Ancient Egypt > insect gods and myths, with a few other revered arthropods.
• Sexton or Burying Beetles > undertakers of the insect world.
• Social Wasps & Hornets > gardeners friend -v- summer nuisance.
• Solitary Bees > look here for minature 'mole-hills' in the garden lawn and other bee-occupied holes.
• Velvet Ants > insects are not always what they appear to be!
• Weevils > the notorious vine weevil and other weevil pests of garden plants.
• Wood-Boring Beetles > the bizarre and more typical woodworm.
   
  (go to the Classification of Bugs for links to all the insect orders)
   
  ARACHNIDS
• False Scorpions > minature crab-like creatures around the house.
• Harvestmen > the 'daddy-long-legs' of the arachnid world.
• King Crabs > ancient survivors from a time before arachnids invaded the land.
• Mites & Ticks > often too small to notice, but sometimes with a big bite.
• Scorpions > a bit of a sting in tail.
• Spiders (& Wind Scorpions) > 'come into my parlour' - for a brief look at spiders and similar arachnids.
• Whip Scorpions > scorpion-like but no sting in the tail.
   
  MYRIAPODS
• Centipedes > many legs - though most have fewer than a hundred.
• Millipedes > many legs but fairly slow moving.
• Pauropods & Symphylids > surviving ancestral offshoots of the centipedes and millipedes.
   
  CRUSTACEANS
• Water Fleas to Crabs > the dominant arthropods of our seas, rivers and lakes.
• Woodlice > infestations inside houses and other buildings.
   
  OTHER ARTHROPODS
• Arthropod Oddments > is it a crab, a spider or something else?

Gallery Pages:

• General Insect Gallery > browse pictures of bugs, flies & other insects (see below for moths, butterflies & beetles).
• Beetle Gallery > browse pictures of beetles found in Britain & Northern Europe.
• Moth & Butterfly Gallery > browse pictures of moths & butterflies found in Britain & elsewhere.

Leaflets:

• Available in the  KBS SHOP.  A series of illustrated leaflets on the recognition and general biology of insects and
  other arthropods  commonly found in and around houses and gardens,  including symptoms and treatment of pest
  species. Supplied as PDF documents by mail-order.

Acknowledgements to Jim Chou for the animated Ant gif