Insects and other arthropods
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European chafer is a stocky brown beetle, about 1.5 cm long, with short, clubbed antennae.
ClassInsectaOrderColeopteraFamilyScarabaeidae -
Honey bees have hairy bodies with thick waists. Their mouthparts are the licking-chewing type. They have two pairs of wings on the thorax held together with hooks. There are three castes in the species: the queen, workers and drones.
ClassInsectaOrderHymenopteraFamilyApidae -
Fleas are tiny, dark-coloured, wingless insects. They have a laterally flattened body and powerful long legs (especially the hind ones) well adapted for jumping.
ClassInsectaOrderSiphonaptera -
These insects look like large, slender wasps. They have a yellow head with a dark stripe between the eyes. The thorax and abdomen are dark, either black or dark brown.
ClassInsectaOrderHymenopteraFamilyIchneumonidae -
The giant water bug is the largest aquatic insect in Quebec. Its flat, hydrodynamic body and the long hairs on its middle and back legs make it a fast and efficient swimmer. It has large compound eyes on its head.
ClassInsectaOrderHemipteraFamilyBelostomatidae -
These spiders, like the other Thomisidae, have characteristics normally associated with crabs: their first two pairs of legs are longer and often held apart, ready to catch their prey, and they scuttle sideways when disturbed.
ClassArachnidaOrderAraneaeFamilyThomisidae -
These large, oval beetles are 1.7 to 3 cm long. Their colour varies from yellowish orange to reddish brown. Their short antennae end in clubs made of plates called lamellae, which unfurl into a fan.
ClassInsectaOrderColeopteraFamilyScarabaeidae -
Come see the gratte-couï bush cricket in the Tête-à-tête room at the Insectarium.
ClassInsectaOrderOrthopteraFamilyTettigoniidae -
These insects owe their name to the short golden hairs that cover the thorax and head.
ClassInsectaOrderHymenopteraFamilySphecidae -
Adults have bright rust-coloured wings with several black spots. Females have black marks on the edges of their wings.
ClassInsectaOrderLepidopteraFamilyNymphalidae