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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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moth

Animals; Insects

An insect that resembles a butterfly but has a thicker body and smaller, less brightly colored wings.

mutant mosquito

Animals; Insects

A mosquito with an altered genomic sequence as a result of human genetic engineering or natural cellular processes known as hypermutation. Mutant mosquitoes can exhibit ...

green lacewing

Animals; Insects

Green lacewings are insects in the large family Chrysopidae of the order Neuroptera.Green lacewings are delicate insects with a wingspan of 6 to over 65 mm, though the largest ...

head lice

Animals; Insects

Tiny insects that live only on people's scalp and hair. They hatch from small eggs called nits that firmly attach to a person's hairs near the scalp and cannot be easily moved up ...

ant death spiral

Animals; Insects

When ants set out foraging, each ant follows the one in front of it on a pheromone track, with the exception of the lead ant who will be guiding the way. On occasion the lead ant ...

hymenoptera

Animals; Insects

Members of a large order of insects(including bees, wasps, and ant) characterized by two pairs of wings and in females an ovipositor adapted for stinging,piercing, or sawing.

aphid

Animals; Insects

A small soft-bodied insect of the homopteran family Aphididae, whose members live on plant juices and include many plant pests,e.g. a greenfly or a blackfly.

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