Do you have an insect you want to identify?
There are about 25 different groups of insect, but most belong to one of six common groups: beetles; but terflies and moths; wasps, bees and ants; true bugs; flies; 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
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