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EARTHWORMS & LEECHES Annelida
STICK INSECT Phasmatodea
Earth Worm Leech
Look for:
Look for: A long cylindrical, segmented body
• A long, narrow body • Stick or leaf like form
• Hind legs not for jumping
BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS Lepidoptera
Blow Fly Robber Fly Crane Fly Mosquito
Wanderer Butterfly Meadow Argus
Butterfly Emperor Moth Orchard Butterfly
• Two pairs of wings covered in tiny scales
• A mouth with a long coiled tube for sucking
FLIES & MOSQUITOES Diptera
• On
ly
one
pa
ir
Look for:
Tiger moth
Look for: Only one pair of wings
DRAGONFLY & DAMSELFLY Odonata
SNAILS & SLUGS Mollusca
Dragonfly Damselfly
• Two pairs of narrow wings held away
from the body • An elongated abdomen
• A soft body‐ that may have shell • No legs • Antennae
Snail Slug
Look for:
Look for:
• Chewing mouth parts • Front wings that are not used for flying. They form
a hard protective cover over the back wing.
PRAYING MANTID Mantodea
Striped Lady
Beetle
Soldier Beetle Scarab Beetle Longicorn Beetle Lycid Beetle
• Front legs that have rows of sharp teeth
used for seizing prey • A long body
Look for:
BEETLES Coleoptera Look for:
Cricket Grasshopper Katydid
GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS & KATYDIDS Orthoptera
Yellow winged locust
• Look for hind legs specialised for jumping
Net casting Spider
Leaf Curling
Spider
Flower Spider Jumping Spiders Mite
SPIDERS, TICKS & MITES Arachnida
• Two body parts • Eight legs
Look for
Triangular spider
COCKROACHES Blattodea
Bush Cockroach
Centipede
Millipede
Slater
Earwig
CENTIPEDS, MILIIPEDES & SLATERS Myriapod
EARWIGS Dermaptera
• Look for many legs
TERMITES Isoptera
Termite
SPRINGTAILS Collembora
Springtail
Cicada Harlequin Bug Leaf Hopper
European Bee Native Bee Ichneumonid Wasp
Assassin Bug
Hoppy Joe
Bulldog Ant Sugar Ant
Green Head Ant
Black Garden Ant
TRUE BUGS Hemiptera
BEES, WASPS & ANTS Hymenoptera
Look for: Mouthparts that form a
straight tube for piercing or sucking
Look for A narrow‐waisted body