BEETLES, BUGS and INSECTS
Insect     -     Vertebrate     -     Herbivore
Omnivore - (Glow Worms)
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RHINOCEROS BEETLE
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DUST MITES
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Cockroach:                Male:  Cockroach:             Female:  Cockroach:            Young:  Nymph
Dragonfly:                 Male:  King. Drake:            Female   -  Queen:                Young:  Nymph ​
Fly:                              Male:  Fly:                            Female:  Fly:                          Young:  Maggot
Gnat:                           Male:  Gnat:                        Female:  Gnat:                       Young:  Larva
Grasshopper:             Male:  Grasshopper:          Female:  Grasshopper:         Young: Nymph
Hornet:                        Male:  Drone:                      Female:  Queen:                    Young:  Lava.  Pupa
Spider:                         Male:  Spider:                      Female: Spider:                    Young: Spiderling
Termite:                       Male:  Bull:                           Female:  Cow:                       Young:  Larva
  • There are over 80,000 species of bugs.
  • There are about 926,000 different insects.
All Insects have 6 legs
There are more insects in the world than all the other animals combined.
  • Bugs are an order of insects.
  • Bugs are insects, arachnids, myriapods and crustaceans.
  • Biologically speaking, bugs are insects that suck.
  • Can live in cracks and crevices and they can withstand extreme conditions.
  • Beetles account for a quarter of all known species of plants and animals.
  • Female aphids give birth to other live female aphids that are already pregnant with yet more female aphids.
  • A male rhinoceros beetle can lift 850 times its own body weight.
  • 15,000 dust mites can live in one gram of dust.
  • The male Cicada is the loudest insect in the world. Its sound can reach 120 decibels.
  • 80% of all insects live in jungles.
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Aphids
  • An aphid can produce an identical copy of itself every 20 minutes. They are 'parthenogenetic'.

​Cockroaches
  • Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.
  • The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.
  • If a cockroach touches a person, it immediately runs away and washes itself.
  • Can hold its breath for 40 minutes.
  • Shed their shells several times a year.
  • Can live for several weeks with its head cut off - this is because its brain is inside its body.  It slowly starves to death.
  • Deathwatch Beetles attract mates by repeatedly banging their heads on the floor.
  • Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
  • A cockroach can hold its breath for 40 minutes.

Crickets and Grasshoppers
  • Grasshoppers have short antenna that point forward - and they hear through their sides.
  • Grasshoppers' blood is white.
  • Grasshoppers have hairs all over their body to detect air movement.
  • Crickets are long and thin and sweep backwards - and have ears on their legs just below their knee joints.
  • Crickets make their unique sound by rubbing their wings together.
  • Crickets and grasshoppers are orthopterans, meaning 'straight wing'.  They each have a pair of long, narrow wings that stretch the length of their backs.
  • Crickets can hear using their legs - sound-waves vibrate a thin membrane on their front legs.
  • The higher the temperature, the faster a cricket chirps.  When the temperature is about 11 degrees Celsius, the cricket chirps about 60 times a minute.
  • ​80% of a cricket is edible, compared to 40% of a cow.

Dragonflies
  • Flap their wings in a figure-of-eight motion.
  • Have 6 legs but cannot walk.
  • The fastest inset is the Australian Dragonfly with a top speed of 35 miles per hour.
  • Its eyes contains 30,000 lenses.
  • Have the sharpest eyesight and the largest eyes among the insects.
  • Can migrate 11,000 miles a year.

Dung Beetles
  • If Dung Beetles disappeared from the plains of Africa, its human inhabitants would be up to their waists in excrement within a month
  • Dung Beetles navigate by using the Milky Way
  • The horn of a Dung Beetle is more than twice the length of its body
  • Dung beetles can bury 250 times their own weight i dung in a single evening

Fleas
  • Can jump up to 200 times their height - equivalent to jumping the Empire State Building in New York.

Glow Worms
  • Are not worms, but insects.
  • Live in undisturbed woodlands and caves.
  • Eat snails, slugs and other insects.
  • Main predators are spiders, birds and centipedes.
  • Only the females glow and the males are attracted to their glow.

Ladybirds / Ladybugs
Entomologists generally prefer the name Ladybird to Ladybug.
  • Are beetles - in America they are called ladybugs.
  • Eat insects, flies, mites and aphids.
  • The bright colours are to warn predators to stay away.
  • The spots on their backs have nothing to with its age.
  • They can have as many as 22 spots.
  • They are often thought to predict the weather - if one fell off your hand, it would rain - if it flew away, it meant that the weather would be nice.
  • Ladybug eggs are tiny helpless blogs.
  • Upon hatching, if there are not enough aphids to feed on, they will each each other.
  • A female Ladybug can lay as many as 1,000 eggs a year.
  • Young Ladybugs grow spikes all over their bodies.
  • At four weeks old, the Ladybug is fully grown.

Locusts
  • A swarm of locusts is an extremely destructive event as they eat all the plants they can find.
  • Swarming is very uncommon.
  • Locusts usually live alone but if crowded together they will swarm in search of new, less crowded places.
  • The cloud of insects can block out the sun.
  • Swarms of locusts move so fast because each locust is trying to eat the one in front and avoid being rate by the one behind.

Praying Mantis
  • Has only one ear, which is located between its legs.
  • Have binocular vision - both eyes work together to help it decipher visual clues.
  • Is the only insect that can move its head .
  • Has an ear between its legs.
  • Are closely related to cockroaches and termites.
  • Female sometimes eats its mate.
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RAINBOW LADYBIRD
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DRAGONFLY
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CITRON BUG
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HORNET
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A FIREFLY
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CRICKET
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DRAGONFLY
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BLUE-EYED DRAGONFLY
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LADYBIRD
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LANTERN BUG
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PRAYING MANTICE
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LADYBIRD / LADYBUG
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A CICADA
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MOSQUITO FEEDING