The beetles include many familiar insects such as Ladybirds, Scarabs, and the Click beetles. These insects have a hardening of the forewings to form an elytra which protects the hind wings as well as the abdomen.
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After copulation the males of some species of dragonflies (and other insect species), accompanies the female whilst she is ovipositing (laying eggs). This behaviour is termed 'guarding' and can take two forms:
1) Contact guarding where the male is in tandem with the female. 2) Non contact guarding, where the male either settles or hovers above or near by the female.
The true flies, an order of the class Insecta characterized by possessing only two wings and a pair of halters.
The Mayflies are small to medium insects with two or three long 'tails' and short antennae. They are usually found near water, when resting the wings are held vertically over the body as they are physically unable to fold their wings along their bodies.
The Hemiptera order of insects includes the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others.
Sawflies, bees, wasps, and ants are second only to Coleoptera in the number of species. There are in excess of 120,000 known species, of which more than 40,000 occur in Europe, and 6.500 in the UK.
An order of insects that consists of the Moths and Butterflies.
Macrolepidoptera is a traditional, informal grouping that encompasses the larger and more conspicuous moths within the order Lepidoptera. Though not a single, strictly defined taxonomic category, the macrolepidoptera share several recognizable traits: relatively large body size, broad wings, and often vivid or distinctive patterns that make them easier to observe and identify than smaller moths.
Microlepidoptera, or micro moths, represent the smaller and often more intricate members of the order Lepidoptera. Like the macrolepidoptera, the term is informal and does not correspond to a single evolutionary lineage, but it remains a useful distinction for practical identification and study. Micro moths are generally characterized by their small size, many species having wingspans of less than 10 millimeters, and by their remarkable diversity in form, behavior, and ecology.
