Bombyx
The mulberry is famous for its caterpillars, the silkworm. The butterfly does not fly and not feeding. It is the only truly domesticated insect man, he no longer live in the wild.
Bee
This solitary bee burrow into the soil a gallery divided into cubicles that caters pollen before they lay their eggs. His long tongue allows it to reach the nectar at the end of the corolla.
Owl butterfly
This large butterfly of the rainforest thrives on rotting fruit, sap or liquid that draws on corpses or feces. It is distinguished only when it is resting on a trunk.
Weevil
The scaly patches of this weevil return all the colors of the rainbow sky. By hiding the shape of her body and they serve as camouflage amid the lush tropical vegetation.
Bluebottle
We do not like this fly because it lays on the meat. Yet its role in nature is essential: by eating the corpses, their larvae, maggots, help recycle organic matter. Transformed into humus, it can then be used by plants.
Cetonia
The green color of this flower beetle is due to the withdrawal of light on thin slices stacked in the thickness of the shell. Its larva is a large white worm that lives in soil and eat the wood rotted.
Lamp Holder
To frighten his enemies, fly coffee Guiana abruptly dismisses her wings and sets the two huge “eyes” of its hind wings.
Grasshopper
The conocephale common reed wetlands vegetation to tall reeds, sedges, grasses and weeds.
Ant
The red ants protect the forest by removing trees from their insect pests. They are protected because their nests are threatened by fires and forest degradation.
Polyommatus daphnis
It is a butterfly from 18 to 19 mm wingspan. It lives in dry grasslands. His trunk dredge consists of two contiguous grooves in a flexible tube.
Tarnished harlequin
Mating takes several hours, then we see them move on umbels tied in pairs by the abdomen.
Butterfly disparate
This butterfly is called “disparate” because adults are very different: the large white female can not fly, while the male, and small brown flies well. The caterpillar on his forehead bears two black spots resembling eyes.
False hornet
Syrphids by their colors, their flight buzzing often imitate the perfection of wasps or bees. Although harmless, they are so afraid to predators who are wary of poisonous insects.
Phasme
These chewing insects mimic plants they eat. Similar to a smooth or spiny branch, or a leaf, stick insects can remain motionless for hours in blending perfectly with their environment.
Weevil Madagascar
The weevils carry their antennae and chewing mouthparts at the end of a long snout or trunk. They feed on all plants. The smallest is 1 mm long and the largest, 7 cm.
Capricorn
The horned beetles or are identified by their very long antennae. The larvae bore into the wood. The beautiful colors of these Sternotomis Africa are due to end down colored scales covering their shells.
Horsefly
The adults feed on nectar and pollen but the female must also make blood meal to ensure the maturation of its eggs. They bite mostly cows and horses, rarely men.
Tarnished
The smell of bugs like the taste of whiskey are due to the same substance: trans-2-hexenal. The bright colors, red and black, this insect warn predators that it is inedible.