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Do you have an insect you want to identify?

Bert the beetle

There are about 25 different groups of insect, but most belong to one of six common groups - beetles, butterflies and moths, wasps, bees and ants, true bugs, flies, or grasshoppers and crickets.

Click on a group in the list below to find out about it.
You should be able to identify any insect you have found and learn a lot more about bugs too! Remember these pictures are not life-size!

Beetles Moths & butterflies Wasps, bees & ants True bugs Flies

Grasshoppers & crickets Dragonflies Lacewings Mayflies Caddisflies

Earwigs Scorpionflies Cockroaches Praying mantids Stick insects

Alderflies & snakeflies Stoneflies Fleas Parasitic lice Termites

Thrips Booklice & barklice Silverfish Bristletails Stylopids