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| ...rum can reach a body length of up to 18 mm. The body of the blow-fly is compact and often shiny metallic blue, green or golden-green in colour. In addition to their well developed compound eyes and antennae, the blow flies use their sense of touch (feet and legs) for guidance. The smell sensors are also located on the legs and feet. | | |
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| The adult insects reach a length of 12 to 15 mm. They are green-brown to bronze in colour. However after the winter, their colouration is light green. Their bodies are covered in small dimples and spots, their feet are brownish in colour, and the outer edges of their wing covers are yellowish. | | |
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| The female Panorpidae lays its eggs (several clutches) in loose soil, with which then stick together and form balls. The hatched larvae are similar to caterpillars and are dark. They have 8 pairs of short feet on their abdomens and bristles on their backs. The larvae live in the soil in which they feed on carrion, small living organisms or parts of plants. | | |
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| ... mm long. They are yellow-reddish colored on the whole body, with only the rear deck wing tips dark. The Common red soldier beetles have long probe, of which the first two limbs are reddish, the remaining are brown coloured. The legs are orange, the feet are dark. | | |
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| ...lume moths resemble crane flies. Plume moths feed on different types of Convolvulaceae.
They can be encountered beside small paths and in areas with human settlements. Plume moths are active from May to September. Plume moth caterpillars have 16 feet and feed on the leaves and blossoms of herbaceous plants. They also live in the pith of various woody plants. | | |
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| Murky-legged Black Legionnaire | | ...rong, dark sensors. Their chest is slightly hairy. At the rear edge of the scutellum areoften a number of curved spikes, hence the family name "soldier flies". Their halteres are whitish in colour, their legs are long and yellow and their feet are dark. The abdomen of the murky-legged black legionnaire appears flattened.
The murky-legged black legionnaire lives in humid forests or in forest edges. It can be seen in early summer on sunlit leaves, flying, or sitting in bushes, hedges... | | |
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| In some species, the front legs are specially designed to grasp prey. The hind legs can be formed to jump or row. The feet of these insects have 1 or 2 joints. | | |
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| ... black, or completely missing. The first abdominal segment (propodeum) usually has dense and dotting hair on its surface. The females have a sting for defense at the rear which is missing in the males. The females have strong bristles on their front feet which they use todig. The bee wolf can easily be confused with Bembix rostrata. | | |
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| ... head on the males and cover the sides of their heads like bowls. The eyes vary in colour from brown to bright red depending on species. The genitalia of the males are very large and are below the abdomen. The last pair of legs often have very broad feet hence the name "flat-footed flies". | | |
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| ...owish brown, in the 3rd to 4th larval stage. above whitish-green and laterally known with fine-grained black dotting (warts). At the end of the last larval stage they are cyan in colour with a dark-green underside. The caterpillar has little green feet. Due to its appearance the caterpillar of the orange tip can be confused with that of the common brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni), but can however be distinguished by its black warts. The caterpillar lives from June to August on its food ... | | |
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