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| The ordinal name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom, and refers to the resemblance of many species to sticks or leaves. Their natural camouflage can make them extremely difficult to spot. Phasmatodea can be found all over the world in warmer zones, especially the tropics and subtropics. The greatest diversity is found in Southeast Asia and South America, followed by Australia. Phasmids also have a considerable presence in the continental United States, mainly in the Southeast. |
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A bumblebee is any member of the bee genus Bombus, in the family Apidae. There are over 250 known species, existing primarily in the Northern Hemisphere although they are common in New Zealand and in the Australian state of Tasmania.
Bumblebees are social insects that are characterised by black and yellow body hairs |
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A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp which hunts tarantulas as food for its larvae. Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis in the family Pompilidae (spider wasps).
The more familiar species are up to five centimetres (two inches) long with a blue-black body and bright rust-colored wings. |
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| Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees in the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. |
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| Flower Mantis is a common name given to various species of praying mantis that mimic flowers. |
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| are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. |
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| Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on feces. have blackish outer wings. |
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| The blue ant (Diamma bicolor, also known as the blue-ant or bluebottle) is, despite its name and its appearance, not an ant at all, but rather a species of large solitary parasitic wasp.Blue ants have a distinctive metallic blue-green body, with red legs. |
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| Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators, often with spectacularly long proboscises adapted to plants such as Lapeirousia species with very long, narrow floral tubes. Many Bombyliidae superficially resemble bees and accordingly the prevalent common name for the family is the bee flies. |
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| Morpho butterfly may be one of over 80 species of butterflies in the genus Morpho. Which have blue and green wings that produce beaytiful coloration. |
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