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The following are lists of insects of Great Britain. There are more than 20,000 insects of Great Britain , [ 1 ] this page provides lists by order . Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)
The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also includes several Check Lists of British Insects. All books contain line drawings, with the most recent volumes including colour photographs.
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Lists of insects of Great Britain (26 P) Pages in category "Lists of insects in the British Isles" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
A DEFRA study from 2006 suggested that 100 species became extinct in the UK during the 20th century: about 100 times the background extinction rate. [3] This has had a major impact on indigenous animal populations. Song birds in particular are becoming scarcer, and habitat loss has affected larger mammalian species.
Legnotus limbosus – bordered shield bug; Legnotus picipes – heath shield bug; Canthophorus impressus – bastard toadflax bug; Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) – pied shield bug
The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
This is a list of ants of Great Britain, including endemic and introduced species.Compared with much of the rest of Europe, Great Britain has a smaller number of ants.The size and diversity of ant species in any area is largely determined by the highest summer soil temperature, and this being so, it is not surprising that the greatest concentration of different species is centred in the warmer ...