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| Sense of smell and sense of taste are highly developed in ants. They communicate primarily by means of pheromones. Ants always behave aggressively when they encounter ants from other colonies. The Red forest ant is an example of an omnivore. Its diet consists of insects like caterpillars, butterflies and flies as well as other invertebrates like spiders. | | |
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| Andrena are from 5 to 16 mm in length. They vary in colour from black to black-red tones and can also have a metallic sheen. Their hair is like fur and they often have a bright hairy towel on the abdomen. Andrena are counted among the bees which collect by their legs, because the pollen - with the aid of their legs - gets loca... | | |
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| Western honey bees are brown in color. In some sub-species the abdomen also has yellow, orange or red hues. The most noticeable characteristic? of the honey bee is the narrow and elongated radial cells on the forewings. The sides of these cells are almost parallel and only slightly curved. Queens and workers have a poisonous sting, however the qu... | | |
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| The larvae of ladybirds can look very different to each other, but they are mostly elongated and plump. They are blue-grey, brown or yellow in color with yellow, orange or red spots. One can often determine from the coloring of the larvae what their coloring will be as adults. Some larvae are similar to those of the dragonfly. | | |
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| ...38 mm in summer. The body of the butterfly is slim and the upper surface is a black-brown colour. The underside is lighter and slightly hairy. The rings on the segments are white. The upper surface of the wings in the spring generation is a brownish-red to orange colour and is interspersed with black patches. The summer generation are black-brown to black or sometimes blue-black) The undersides of the wings in the two generations differ only slightly. | | |
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| Muscidae | | ...e than 4,000 species globally, approximately 600 of which can be found in Europe. Some examples are: stable fly, housefly and Graphomya maculata. The body length of Muscidae is between 2 and 18 mm. The flies can be gray, steel blue, green, yellow or red in colour. They have short antennae. They have 2 compound eyes and 3 simple eyes. They can bite or lick with their mouth parts. | | |
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| |  | | Approach of Red-nigger bumblebee from beneath | | >> Picture |
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| |  | | Common red soldier beetle - Rhagonycha fulva - mating | | >> Picture |
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