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Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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rose scale

Animals; Insects

Rose scale is a hard scale. The adult females are white and flat. The males have two forms - sedentary males are long and flat with ribbed texture and are white; winged males are ...

rose aphid

Animals; Insects

Rose aphids are a pinkish brown colour. Wingless females are often seen in large number on stems and buds of roses. Aphids are soft-bodied with sucking mouthparts. They have a ...

robber fly

Animals; Insects

Robber flies are medium to large hunting flies with long strong legs used to catch prey on flight. They have large eyes, and distinct "neck" between the head and abdomen. The ...

oviparous

Animals; Insects

Producing eggs which are hatched outside the body of the female.

ovipositor

Animals; Insects

An appendage extending from the back end or underneath an insect used for depositing eggs.

ovisac

Animals; Insects

A waxen sac into which eggs are laid in Coccoid Hemiptera, and which sometimes encloses all or part of the female.

pala

Animals; Insects

Tarsus of foreleg of Corixidae, modified into a seta-fringed scoop.

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