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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lemon migrant

Animals; Insects

The lemon migrant butterfly has two color forms. The dark form is yellowish above and below, and female butterflies have a narrow brown border on outer edges of the upper wing surface. with is a ...

leafroller moth

Animals; Insects

Leafroller moths are small moths in the tortricidae family. There may be several species shown on this page. They are all mainly brown with greyish markings near the tail. The hind wings are curved ...

leafhopper

Animals; Insects

These leafhoppers are so tiny that they can come through the mesh of the fly screen of windows. They are attracted to house lights in large numbers on warm summer nights, and many of them can com ...

leafcutter bee

Animals; Insects

Leafcutter bees are mainly black with white hairs. They cut oval pieces of leaves and put them in a crack or hole to make their nest. The cells in the nest are made of overlapping pieces of leaf ...

leaf beetle

Animals; Insects

Not sure what species of leaf beetle this is. The head is a buff color, and the body is patterned in shades of cream, buff and brown. It has a domed shape like a ladybird, and the surface has a ...

lawn army worm

Animals; Insects

The adult lawn armyworm moth is mainly brown with a complex pattern of creamy and grey markings. The trailing edge of the forewings have a fringe of dark and light patches.

large grass yellow

Animals; Insects

The large grass-yellow butterfly has black tips on the upper side of the forewings. The underside of the wings are yellow with small dirty looking dark marks.