Table of Contents All About Bugs 4 Insects American Cockroach 8 American Grasshopper 10 American Hoverfly 12 Antarctic Midge 14 Atlas Moth 16 Australian Walking Stick 18 Bald-Faced Hornet 20 Bed Bug 22 Black Carpenter Ant 24 Blue Mud Dauber Wasp 26 Boll Weevil 28 Brazilian Treehopper 30 Brown Marmorated Stink Bug 32 Bullet Ant 34 Common Green Bottle Fly 36 Common Meadow Katydid 38 Common Scorpion Fly 40 Common Wasp 42 Dead Leaf Butterfly 44 Desert Locust 46 Dog Flea 48 East African Lowland Honeybee 50 Emerald Ash Borer 52 Emerald Swallowtail Butterfly 54 European Field Cricket 56 European Mantis 58 Formosan Termite 60 Fruit Fly 62 Giant Burrowing Cockroach 64 Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect 66 Giant Metallic Ceiba Borer 68 Giant Stag Beetle 70 Glasswing Butterfly 72 Golden Tortoise Beetle 74 Green June Beetle 76 Green Peach Aphid 78 Hercules Beetle 80 Honeybee 82 Housefly 84 Hummingbird Hawk Moth 86 Isabella Tiger Moth 88 Japanese Beetle 90 Large Blue Cuckoo Wasp 92 Little Barrier Giant Weta 94 Luna Moth 96 Milkweed Assassin Bug 98 Monarch Butterfly 100 Northern Mole Cricket 102 Northern Walking Stick 104 Orchid Mantis 106 Painted Grasshopper 108 Pharaoh Cicada 110 Rainbow Scarab Beetle 112 Regal Moth 114 Rosemary Beetle 116 Rosy Maple Moth 118 Saddleback Caterpillar Moth 120 Seven-Spotted Ladybird 122 Silverfish 124 Southern Flannel Moth 126 Tarantula Hawk 128 Thorn Bug 130 Yellow Fever Mosquito 132
Arachnids Centipedes Bird Dung Crab Spider 134 Black-Legged Tick 136 Brazilian Black Tarantula 138 Brown Recluse Spider 140 Camel Spider 142 Daddy Longlegs 144 Deathstalker Scorpion 146 Emperor Scorpion 148 Giant Huntsman Spider 150 Giant Whip Scorpion 152 Goldenrod Crab Spider 154 Goliath Bird Spider 156 Indian Red Scorpion 158 Mexican Red Knee Tarantula 160 Peacock Spider 162 Peacock Tarantula 164 Two-Spotted Spider Mite 166 Western Black Widow 168 Yellow Garden Spider 170 Amazonian Giant Centipede 172 Bark Centipede 174 Giant Desert Centipede 176 House Centipede 178 Millipedes American Giant Millipede 180 Giant African Millipede 182 Greenhouse Millipede 184 White-Legged Snake Millipede 186 Glossary 188 To Learn More 189 Index 190 Photo Credits 191
All About Bugs Bugs come in many shapes and sizes The world is full of bugs Some crawl and some fly Some burrow and others build elaborate webs They live in all sorts of climates Some can survive the extreme cold in Antarctica Others live in tropical rain forests Every creature has a unique and important role in its ecosystem The western black widow spider is a venomous arachnid 4
Arthropoda is an animal group that includes insects arachnids centipedes and millipedes These animals are all called arthropods People may refer to them as bugs But insect scientists use the word bug to describe certain insects Not all insects are bugs and not all arthropods are insects Arthropods are split into different categories based on the number of their legs and body parts There are approximately 100,000 known arachnid species The arachnid group includes spiders scorpions and ticks An arachnid has eight legs and two body parts Its lower body is called an abdomen Some scorpions have abdomens that are long and end in tails The abdomens of other arachnids including some spider species are shaped like big round balls The upper part of an arachnid’s body is the cephalothorax An arachnid’s legs are attached to this part of the body The arthropods with the most legs are centipedes and millipedes They typically have between 20 and 800 legs Their bodies have many segments Though centipedes and millipedes look similar to one another there are key differences They belong to different animal The giant African millipede is the largest millipede species in the world 5
