Insects

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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burying mantis

Animals; Insects

The burying mantis is a sturdy brown or greyish brown mantis. It has large brown eyes, and black and white spines on its front legs. Females dig a small hole in the ground, to lay their eggs - this ...

bush fly

Animals; Insects

This species of Dichaetomyia has reddish brown body and red eyes. The body is stocky with strong bristles. These flies are related to the common house fly.

cabbage aphid

Animals; Insects

The cabbage aphid is an introduced pest species in Australia. The body is grey to dull green with dark head and thorax and short dark siphunculi (the tubes on the abdomen). They are a common ...

cabbage cluster caterpillar

Animals; Insects

The adult cabbage cluster caterpillar moth is pale brown with dark markings, and two small white triangular spots on each forewing. The female is similar to the male but with more subtle markings on ...

cadelle beetle

Animals; Insects

The adult cadelle beetle is a shiny black insect with an elongated flattened body. It has a distinct "waist" between the thorax and the wing covers. Males have lots of very fine punctures on the ...

caper white

Animals; Insects

The caper white butterfly has black veins and black wing tips with an arc of small white spots in the black area. There is also a darker form having orange wing upper surfaces with broad black ...

carcass beetle

Animals; Insects

Omorgus is a genus of beetles in the Trogidae family. Omorgus alternans is a robust untidy looking carcass beetle with rough knobby surface to the wing covers and thorax. The head is bent downwards ...