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Home / Insects
The Insect Gallery contains over 2000 images within 12 sub-galleries grouped by insect type.
The Moths sub-gallery is a collection of over 1000 images of macro and micro moths and is a useful resource in moth identification.

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Mecoptera - scorpion flies
7 photos
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earwigs (Dermaptera)
1 photo
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Psocoptera - barklice, booklice, dustlice (or barkflies)
3 photos
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Ants, wasps, bees & Allies
165 photos
Ants, wasps, bees & Allies (Hymenoptera)
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Beetles (Coleoptera)
102 photos 98 photos in 1 sub-album
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Bugs (Hemiptera)
4 photos 157 photos in 12 sub-albums
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Butterflies
482 photos in 9 sub-albums
Butterflies can usually be told from moths (in the UK at least) by the clubbed antennae. Of course most moths are nocturnal but there are plenty of exceptions.
Butterflies and moths make up the Lepidoptera (tile-winged), insects which have small overlapping scales on their wings. These scales are clear in some of the moth photos on this site but you have to use a hand-lens to see them with the naked eye.
There are far more species of moths than butterflies in Europe. In the UK there are about 60 species of butterflies compared with nearly 2,500 moths... though many of these are quite rare and many are tiny.
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Damselflies
173 photos
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Dictyoptera: Cockroaches
1 photo
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Dragonflies
4 photos 291 photos in 13 sub-albums
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Flies - Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)
6 photos
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Grasshoppers and Crickets (Orthoptera)
86 photos
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Mantodea - Mantises
8 photos
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Moths
1313 photos in 21 sub-albums
Scientists have divided moths into 'macro-moths' (the larger ones) and 'micro-moths'. For more information, see the introductions in the two sub-galleries. Each category is then further divided into several different families, genera and species.
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Neuroptera
11 photos
Lacewings and allies
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True flies (Diptera)
75 photos 496 photos in 2 sub-albums
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caddis flies (Trichoptera)
2 photos