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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)
Belostomatidae is a family of freshwater hemipteran insects known as giant water bugs or colloquially as toe-biters, Indian toe-biters, electric-light bugs (because they fly to lights in large numbers), alligator ticks, or alligator fleas (in Florida). They are the largest insects in the order Hemiptera. [1]
Pages in category "Lists of insects of Great Britain" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Legnotus picipes – heath shield bug; Canthophorus impressus – bastard toadflax bug; Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) – pied shield bug; Tritomegas sexmaculatus – Rambur's pied shield bug; Adomerus biguttatus – cow wheat shield bug; Sehirus luctuosus – forget-me-not shield bug; Geotomus punctulatus – Cornish shield bug
The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea , and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species.
Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles. Warne. Ryan, Rob (2012). "An addendum to Southwood and Leston's Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles". British Journal of Entomology and Natural History. 25 (4): 205-215. Foster, Stuart (2013). "Coranus aethiops Jakovlev (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) - new to Britain, from South Yorkshire".
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 ...