prothorax

Tropical beetle ventral view showing large hind legs and metallic red and green colouration

Buprestid metallic wood boring beetle cut to whtie showing its extraordinary rainbow colouration

Banded jewel beetle Chrysochroa buqueti rugicollis with wings outstetched and banded elytra on show, red metallic thorax

Colorado Potato beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata life cycle with adult, egg, pupa, and colourful orange grub all cut to whtie

Cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis adult and larva and pupa, the latter two inside developing cotton bolls

Dicronorrhina derbyana Derby’s flower chafer

Driver ant Dorylinae in balck and white, side view

Dorcadion scopoli Longhorn beetle cut to white

Sabre wasp Rhyssa persuasoria using her long ovipositor to lay an egg with her long terminal cerci pointing upwards

Dung beetle Oxysternon conspicillatum dorsal view

Honey bee Apis mellifera visiting the pear blossom in spring

Bilberry bumblebee Bombus monticola in amongst heath plants and heather with distinctive orange furry abdomen

Honey bee Apis mellifera detailed illustration of the worker

White tailed bumble bee Bombus lucorum showing fluffy hairs and stripes, wings outstretched, cut to white

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest with an inverted flower pop and a length of hose pipe as the entryway

Wildlife home diagram for a bumblebee nest showing a wooden box full of hay or straw, in a hole under a stone with a pipe for access

Yellow meadow ant Lasius flavus carrying an egg across the dirt

Spruce Bark beetle Ips typographus inset illustration against a background showing maternal and larval galleries in bark

Rosemary beetles on rosemary showing metallic markings, cut to white