δA² Nature

Insects

With more than a million known species, insects make up two-thirds of the animal kingdom: thanks to their small size, they have been able to colonize a wide variety of environments with often difficult access.

Bee

Great cicada

Crane fly

Bumblebee

Red cabbage bug

Ladybird

Insects have a segmented body in three distinct parts: the head, the thorax and the abodmen. Most of them have six legs and often two pairs of wings.

List of the main groups of insects:

Odonata (e.g .: dragonflies)
Ephemeroptera (ephemeral)
Thysanura

Paranéoptères

Hemiptera (e.g .: cicada )
Heteroptera (e.g .: bugs)
Psocoptera, Phthyraptera, Thysanoptera

Oligoneoptera

Coleoptera (e.g .: beetles), streptones
Lepidoptera (butterflies), tricopters
Diptera (e.g .: mosquito)
Hymenoptera (e.g .: bee )
Siphonaptera (e.g .: fleas) and mites
Raphidioptera, megaloptera, neuroptera

Polyneoptera

Dermaptera (e.g. earwig)
Orthoptera (e.g .: grasshoppers)
Phasmoptera (stick insects)
Dictiopterans (e.g .: mantes)
Plecoptera, Notoptera, Zoroptera