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Iridescent Insects – Bright Beetle

So what is the difference between an iridescent insect and a bug? Is there one well, for many of us we would have included spiders in there with this bugs but they are quite separate.

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Iridescent Insects – Green Fly

The difference is that bugs have a mouth that is like a straw and is used to suck juices out of plants, they also sometimes do it out to suck blood in the case of the assassin bug. There is another difference in that their front wings are thicker and coloured at the front.

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Iridescent Insects – Damsel Fly

Insects grow in spurts because they have an exoskeleton, once their shell is formed it sets solid, so they have to discard the old shell and push themselves into the new shell size whilst it is still soft and flexible.

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Dragonfly

Insects are not all slow crawling animals hawk moths can fly at 53 kph and a horsefly has been recorded at 145 kph but in fact we do not know enough about their flight yet to be sure.

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Dewy Insect

Insects have six legs and 3 parts to their body and differ from spiders which have 2 body parts and eight legs, there are no animals known that have an odd number of legs to get about with.

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