Agromyzidae: The Serpentine Miner...

The leafminer belongs to the genus, Liromyzae is the economically important pest of most horticultural crops. The maggots are legless, yellowish green and can grow upto 3 mm. Maggots developed with thin and forward reaching mouthparts.

The video depicts how the serpentine miner damaging the mesophyll layer of leaf and its internal body movement during feeding.

Lucanidae: The Pinching Beetle...

The stage beetles mostly inhabit wooden logs or tree stumps in forest ecosystem. Nearly, 1200 species exist around the world. Male lucanids fight each other using their antlers, if they are interested in the same female. After successful mating the female lay egg under the bark of fallen or rotting logs. Interesting that stage beetle larvae are excellent decomposers of wood.

The female stag beetle is comparatively smaller than male and devoid of antlers.

Derbidae: The True Bug...

Derbids are varied in appearance, mostly host specific and nymph feed on fungi. The family was first described by Maximilian Spionala in 1839.

Asilidae: The Assassin fly...

The robber flies has the ability to capture the prey in air, often catch the prey which larger in size than itself. It inject  neurotoxin and proteolytic enzymes to paralyze the victm.

Scarabeidae: Flower Chaffer...

                Brilliant coloured, Oxycetonia versicolor spotted on rose.
       Heavy infestation may coincide during flowering stage of the crop.

Apidae: The Efficient Pollinator...

Honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during their collection trip

and flies up to 6 miles, as fast as 15 miles per hour.

Reduviidae: The Ambush Predator...

                                     Proficient predatory life style and better hunters too..

                                     

Papillionidae: Swallowtail...

The swallowtail larva is curiously patterned and possess eversible, protective scent organs.

Pentatomids Vs Cassidinae...

Predator Vs Prey

Cassidae: The Dancing Grub...

Spiny tortoise beetle grub having fecal material on their back, which helps camouflage against predators and parasites.

                                              

The pretty and spiny pupa of tortoise beetle