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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.

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antlion lacewing

Animals; Insects

Glenoleon falsus is a black-bodied lacewing with two pairs of long narrow transparent wings with black veins. The wings are longer than the abdomen with a dark patches near the wing tips. They have ...

Argentine ant

Animals; Insects

Argentine Ant Workers are small dark brown or medium brown ants with smooth shiny bodies. The mandibles have five to eight large teeth and five to thirteen smaller serrations (denticles). The head is ...

armyworm

Animals; Insects

This Armyworm moth has grey to reddish-brown forewings with a complex pattern of creamy streaks and paler lines along the veins. The hindwings are greyish-white with grey margins. Larvae are variable ...

ash whitefly

Animals; Insects

The adult Ash Whitefly is a pale whitish whitefly with slightly mottled wings. The winged adults flutter around like tiny moths when disturbed. They are very similar to many other different species ...

asian tiger mosquito

Animals; Insects

The Asian Tiger Mosquito has white bands on the abdomen, and white bands on the legs and white tips to the palps. The back of the thorax is black with a white stripe down the center from the back of ...

assassin bug

Animals; Insects

The Assassin Bug is a medium to large sized bug with a large curved mouth part for piercing and sucking. It has long legs. Adult bugs are brown in colour with transparent wings. Nymphs are black with ...

Australian cockroach

Animals; Insects

The Australian Cockroach is a large reddish brown cockroach with yellow margin round the thorax and yellow edges to front part of fore wings. The antennae are long and the legs are spiky. They are ...

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