Un Covered Specias Of Nature..

Fully macro view of Bee

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Spiders-2

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Its looks a small dinosaurs.....

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Its looks a small dinosaurs.....

Mix

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Butterflys-2

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Beautiful Bees

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Dangerous Spiders

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Garden Spider
Wolf Spider
Long Jawed Spider

Trap Door Spider
Fishing Spider
Cob Web Spider

Some Rare Butterflys

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Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (Superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (Superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some are known to migrate over large distances. Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. Butterflies are important economically as one of the major agents of pollination. In addition, a number of species are pests, because they can damage domestic crops and trees.
Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.

Tachnid fly(Diptera)

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Hoverflies mating in flight The flies are one of the most diverse insect lineages and by far the most agile insects in the air. Flies are recognized by the posession of a single pair of wings, their hind wings reduced into knobby flight-stabilizing structures called halteres. Flies are abundant in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem where they play important ecological roles as pollinators, detritivores, predators, and parasites.

Lovely Butterflys

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A butterfly is an insect of the order Lepidoptera . Like all Lepidoptera, butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a larval caterpillar stage, an inactive pupal stage, and a spectacular metamorphosis into a familiar and colourful winged adult form. Most species are day-flying so they regularly attract attention. The diverse patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic yet graceful flight have made butterfly watching a fairly popular hobby.

Leaches

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LEECHES and earthworms are members of a large group of animals known as annelids, or segmented worms. The leech's body is always divided into segments.
Leeches are temporary parasites which feed upon the blood of higher animals. You know that the animal upon which a parasite feeds is called a host. Frogs, turtles, cattle, and sometimes human beings, may be the hosts of leeches.

Blood is not the only food of leeches. They will eat tadpoles, snails, worms, and other small animals living in ponds. Different kinds of leeches have somewhat different food habits. Thus, a leech may be a cannibal, a scavenger, a parasite, or a free-living animal, but it is said that he will usually make a meal of blood when he can get it.
Years ago many people believed that letting blood from a patient's body would cure his illness. The large medicinal leech which was often used for this purpose can take two or three times its own weight in blood into its body at one feeding. The leech's saliva mixes with the blood of the host and prevents it from clotting while the leech is feeding. After a meal, its body is short and broad, and it will drop off the host of its own accord. A leech digests blood slowly and can live on a single meal for a long time.
Leeches usually have three jaws and make a Y-shaped incision. The Australian land leech has only two jaws and makes a V-shaped incision. Australian leeches can vary in size from about 7 mm long to as much as 200 mm when extended.

A leech does not have gills or lungs for respiration. Many fine blood vessels near the surface of his body take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
You may see leeches swimming through the open water or moving over submerged plants or logs. A sucker is located at each end of the leech's body. The mouth is in the oral or anterior sucker. The posterior sucker is at the other end of the leech's body. Like his relative, the common earthworm, a leech does not have legs. His suckers are useful not only to attach his body to some object but assist him in locomotion as well. When he moves he may remind you of a measuring worm.

Large leeches are about six inches long. Adults of others are from one to four inches in length, but you may find young ones which are quite small. Leech eggs are usually covered with a cocoon which the parent attaches to stones or other objects. A few leeches bury their egg cocoons in moist earth. Others living in streams on the under surface of stones have the odd habit of attaching their eggs to their own bodies. After the eggs have developed into young leeches, you may see dozens of them clinging to the under side of the parent's body.

Lady-beetle-close-up

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Lady-beetle-close-up

Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, comprising around 80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others, collectively known as the true bugs. They range in size from 1 mm to around 15 cm, and share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts

Exploring the wonderful world of Mantises

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Chorthippus biguttulus-

Orthopteroid (Polyneoptera)- Mantids can turn their heads 180 degrees to scan their surroundings with two large compound eyes and three other simple eyes located between them.Praying mantids’ excellent eyesight allows some to see movement up to 60 feet (18 meters) away.Typically green or brown and well camouflaged on the plants among which they live, mantis lie in ambush or patiently stalk their quarry. They use their front legs to snare their prey with reflexes so quick that they are difficult to see with the naked eye. Their legs are further equipped with spikes for snaring prey and pinning it in place.

Grasshopper-

Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from bush crickets or katydids, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts .Grasshoppers have antennae that are almost always shorter than the body (sometimes filamentous), and short ovipositors. Those species that make easily heard noises usually do so by rubbing the hind femurs against the forewings or abdomen (stridulation), or by snapping the wings in flight.

Chinese mantis-

The Chinese mantis looks like a long and slender praying mantis, with different shades of brown. The adult has a green lateral line down its wing. It is typically larger than most other mantises, growing up to 10 cm (4 inches) in length, and are the largest mantis species in North America.

Beetles

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There are more than 800,000 species of insects on earth, more than all the other plants and animals combined. Of this great number of insects, nearly half are beetles. Unlike other insects, beetles have a pair of leathery protective wings called elytra that cover their membranous flight wings. During flight, the elytra are spread apart and the two flight wings are unfolded and extended. Beetles come in a variety of shapes and colors, from red "ladybugs" and metallic green fig beetles to lightning beetles that glow in the dark and huge horned beetles resembling a miniature rhinoceros. Colorful beetles are used for jewelry and pins, and shiny tropical scarab beetles are strung together to make unusual necklaces. Beetles range in size from less than a millimeter (1/100 of an inch) to tropical giants over six inches long. The largest giants may weigh 40 million times more than their lilliputian relatives.

Beetles are the group of insects with the largest number of known species. They are placed in the order Coleoptera, meaning "sheathed wing", which contains more described species than in any other order in the animal kingdom, constituting about 25% of all known life-forms.[1] 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 350,000 species[1]), and new species are frequently discovered. Estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at between 5 and 8 million.

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Dragonfly

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A dragonfly is a type of insect belonging to the order Odonata , the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera. It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes , two pairs of strong, transparent wings , and an elongated body. Dragonflies are similar to damselflies , but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most dragonflies are held away from, and perpendicular to, the body when at rest.

Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, and other small insects like flies, bees, ants and butterflies. They are therefore valued as predators, since they help control populations of harmful insects. Dragonflies are usually found around lakes, ponds, streams and wetlands because their larvae, known as "nymphs",

Damselflies -

The Damselfly (Suborder Zygoptera) is an insect in the Order Odonata. Damselflies are similar to dragonflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most damselflies are held along, and parallel to, the body when at rest. Furthermore, the hindwing of the damselfly is essentially similar to the forewing, while the hindwing of the dragonfly broadens near the base, caudal to the connecting point at the body. Damselflies are also usually smaller, weaker fliers than dragonflies, and their eyes are separated.

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The bees of the world

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