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| Heteroptera have a wide variety of forms. With regard to their habitat and way of life they also vary greatly. There are plant sucking species, predatory species and parasites such as the bedbug. Their habitats range from forests and meadows to human dwellings. Some species prefer humid locations such as swamps, while others live in sand or salt, or in or on water. In rare cases they even appear on the open sea. | | |
| | Darkling beetles | | ..., Scaphidema metallicum, Confused flour beetle, Alphitobius diaperinus, Gnathocerus cornutus and Uloma culinaris.
Darkling beetles are 1 to 100 mm in length. Their body shape varies. They are easily confused with beetles from other families. They range in shape from broad, oval and round to long and flat. The beetle can be completely black in colour, black-brown, brown or reddish-yellow. Some species have dots. While the neck shield is mostly the same breadth, the wing covers vary, in some specie... | | |
| | | Dor Beetles - Earth-boring dung beetles | | ...ely 500 species globally , only 10 of which can be found in Central Europe. Examples of species are: Geotrupes stercorarius, Anoplotrupes stercorosus, Geotrupes vernalis and Typhaeus typhoeus.
The beetles are 6 to 26 mm in length. Their bodies range in shape from oval to spherical. They can be black, brown, metallic blue, green or blue green in colour. The male insects wear horns, humps or have deep impressions on their large and curved necks.
The earth-boring dung beetle lives in fore... | | |
| | ...on the move and penetrates further north during hot summers. It cannot overwinter in Central Europe. The cotton bollworm prefers to live on cultivated land but is also found on warm hillsides or grassy heathland.
The caterpillars eat a very wide range of foods, but are especially fond of crops such as cotton, sunflowers, lemons and tomatoes. | | |
| | ...ars are about 30 mm in length. They are black with fine white spots. They have two broken yellow lines on their sides, and their body is purplish-brown in colour. The back and sides are spiny. Small tortoiseshell butterflies drink nectar from a wide range of plants, including Eupatorium and thistles. | | |
| | ...with most species of crab spiders, the heather spider has a bizarre body shape with bumps and pits. The colour of the body in the males and females is also different. In some specimens the whole body is one colour. The body colour of the females can range from white to pink or yellow, depending on the colour of the flowers they are visiting. This colour adaptation is possible within a few days, with the colouring is supported (surface dissolution) by dots and stripes. Male Thomisus onustus are freque... | | |
| | ...ed with the small autumn spider (Metellina mengei), which is similar in colour. . The species can be told apart by the shape of their genitals, their body size and the hair on the legs of the males.
The autumn spider can be encountered in a wide range of environments, at various altitudes. It prefers semi-open habitats such as forest edges, clearings, box, trees, lawns, gardens, hedgerows, bogs and swamps, where it can be found as a mature adult in herbal layers and shrub layers from August ... | | |
| | Adult female Plagiognathus arbustorum reach lengths of 3.7 - 4.3 mm, while males range from 3.8 - 4.6 mm. Their bodies are elongated and the males are slenderer than the females. Plagiognathus arbustorum vary in colour from light olive brown to almost black. The head, front of chest and first two antennae segments are usually dark.... | | |
| | Andrena flavipes live in diverse habitats, such as forest edges, parks, gardens, and sand, gravel or clay pits. They feed on a wide range of flowering plants from which they obtain nectar and pollen. | | |
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| Frequent Queries: | | tell apart Geotrupes stercorarius from stercorosus (1) | | | | | | |
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