insect

A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

A mosquito.

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

(arthropodology) One of a set of paired mouthparts found in many arthropods and used for tasting and manipulating food.

Any of a number of naturally occurring insecticides extracted from the pyrethrum plant; unusual in having a cyclopropane ring.

Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.

A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.

A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.

Any of the rods that support each ommatidium in the compound eye of arthropods

Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.

Any of several large ants, of the genus Camponotus, found in North America and northern China, that build nests in dead wood

Any of various drepanid moths.

One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

A weevil (or similar insect)

Any of several beetles from the families Silvanidae and Laemophloeidae that infest grains and grain products.

A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.

To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.

A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

Any of various beetles of the family Elateridae, generally less than 20 mm long, which, if turned upside down, flip themselves into the air with a clicking sound.