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tachinid flies
attracted by cricket song and attack
lord howe walkingstick
- phasmatodea
- thought to be extinct
- somewhat resurrected
tree lice
- pscodea
- small
- don't attack humans
true lice
- pscodea
- pubic lice and body lice
plack hunter thrips
- thysanoptera
- some of the few predaceous thrips
phlacaethripinae
- thysanoptera
- gall-making
- soldier casts on Acacias
- hooks on tarsi to keep out predators
- becoming social
gerridae
- hemiptera
- water striders
- predaceous
- have oil on feet that make them sensitive to vibrations on the water's surface
- attack when they sense movement
miridae
- hemiptera
- plant bugs
tingidae
- hemiptera
- lacebugs
pentatemidae
-hemiptera
- predatory stink buhg
cicadas
- hemiptera
- emerge as swarms at long intervals
- feed on tree roots underground
cercopoidia
- hemiptera
- spittlebugs
- jump 100x own height
membracidae
- hemiptera
- tree hoppers
- stationary
- thorn mimics
ant lions
- neuroptera
- ambush predators
- build killing fields
carabidae
- coleoptera
- predaceous
- ground beetles and tiger beetles
- black with iridescent tones
- live under logs or rocks
tiger beetles
- coleoptera
- specialized ground beetles
- predators as adults and larvae
gyrinidae
- coleoptera
- whirlygig beetles
- river predators
- smell like green apple
- four compound eyes
lucanidae
- coleoptera
- stag beetles
- wood borers
- joust for females
scarabaeidae
- coleoptera
- scarabs
buprestidae
- coleoptera
- jewel beetles
lampyridae
- coleoptera
- fireflies
cocinellidae
- coleoptera
- predaceous
- ladybird beetles
- eat aphids, mites, and scales
cuculionidae
- coleoptera
- weevils
- long snout
- chewing mouthparts
muscoid flies
- diptera
- sponging mouthparts
tabanids
- diptera
- horseflies and greenheads
- slashing mouthparts
mosquitos
- diptera
- piercing mouthparts
- feed on vertebrates
bumblebee moth
- lepidoptera
- moth that looks like a bumblebee
saturniidae
- lepidoptera
- giant silk worms
gracildariidae
- lepidoptera
- phyllanorycter leaf miners
arctiidae
- lepidoptera
- tiger moths
wooly bears
- lepidoptera
- type of arctiidae
microlepidoptera
- lepidoptera
- super small
- leaf miners
papilonidae
- lepidoptera
- swallowtails
lycaenidae
- lepidoptera
- blues, hairstreaks, metalmarks, coppers, elfins
karner blue
- lepidoptera
- lycaenidae
- endemic to pine barrens
pieridae
- lepidoptera
- orange tips, whites, sulfurs
nymphalidae
- lepidoptera
- brushfooted butterflies
- mourning cloaks
hesperidae
- lepidoptera
- skippers
sphecids
- hymenoptera
- cicada killers
tarantula hawk
- hymenoptera
- type of hornet
solitary bees
- hymenoptera
- pollinate wild plants
carpenter bees
- hymenoptera
- drill holes and put larvae in them
yellow jackets
- hymenoptera
- type of wasp
- aerial or ground nests
ants
- hymenoptera
- wasps that have lost their wings, become social, and developed castes
leaf-cutter ants
- hymenoptera
- first farmers that harvested mushrooms
honey ants
- hymenoptera
- save sugary wine
bullhorn ants
- hymenoptera
- symbiotic relationship with acacia trees
suborder symphyta
- hymenoptera
- sawflies and horntails
- base of abdomen broadly joined to the thorax
- some leaf miners
parasitoids
- hymenoptera
- attack herbivorous insects
- use ovipositors to inject eggs
ichneumonoid wasp
- hymenoptera
- drills 2'' into wood
- cocoon before pupate inside host
- used in greenhouses to attack whitefly nymphs
myrmarid parasitoid
- hymenoptera
- some of the smallest insects (0.2mm)
- fringed wings
cuckoo wasps
- hymenoptera
- ball themselves up for defense