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General Insect Gallery - Contents |
Class: Insecta Order: (various) |
A selection of insects belonging to various orders found
in Britain and elsewhere (excluding moths, butterflies & beetles, which are
illustrated on their own gallery pages - see links at the bottom of this page) . . . . . . |
Page 1: Bugs (Hemiptera) |
- Common Green Shield Bug or Stink-bug (Palomena prasina)
- Forest Bug (Pentatoma rufipes)
- Hawthorn Shield Bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
- Parent Bug (Elasmucha grisea)
- Mirid Bug (Deraeocoris ruber)
- Firebug (Pyrrhocoris apterus)
- Squash Bug (Coreus marginatus)
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Page 2: Flies (Diptera) |
- Crane-fly (family Tipulidae)
- Owl-midge or Moth-fly (family Psychodidae)
- Hover-fly (Syrphus ribesii)
- Hover-fly (Myiathropa florea)
- Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
- Hover-fly (Volucella zonaria)
- Yellow Dung-fly (Scathophaga stercoraria)
- 'Greenbottle' Blow-fly (Lucilia species)
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Page 3: Wasps, Ants & Bees (Hymenoptera) |
- Wood Wasp or Horntail (Urocerus gigas)
- German Wasp (Vespula germanica)
- European Hornet (Vespa crabro)
- Nest of a Social Wasp (Vespula sp.)
- Nest of the Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris)
- Brood cells of the Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris)
- Yellow Garden Ant (Lasius flavus)
- Nest mound of the Yellow Garden Ant (Lasius flavus)
- Solitary Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
- Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
- White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum)
- Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
- Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
- Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
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Page 4: Other Insects |
- Speckled Bush Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) (Orthoptera)
- Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria)* (Orthoptera)
- Praying Mantid (family Mantidae)* (Dictyoptera)
- Leaf Insect (Phyllium species)* (Phasmida)
- Psocid, Booklouse or Dust Louse (Lepinotus species) (Psocoptera)
- Broad-bodied Chaser or Darter Dragonfly (Libellula depressa) (Odonata)
- Dobson-fly (Corydalus species)* (Neuroptera)
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*not indigenous to Britain and Northern Europe |
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