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Crickets

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Crickets can be awfully noisy and sometimes destructive. There are several types of crickets, three of the most popular are the house cricket, camel cricket and the field cricket.

Camel cricket Field cricket

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Springtails

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Springtails are very tiny (.25-1mm long) insects with humpbacks, scales, 6 legs and have no wings. Colours range, transparent, white and various greys or black. 

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Springtails-NC State University, Springtail-Carlo Denegri Foundation

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Leaf Cutting Bees

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Leaf-cutting bees (also called mason bees) are similar in colouration to the common honeybee but are a little smaller and darker with light yellow bands on their abdomen.

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Leaf cutting bee-photo unknown

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Dragonflies & Damselflies

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Dragonflies have long stout bodies with 2 pair of transparent wings. Damselflies have thinner bodies & many species have metallic colourations. Both dragonfilies and damselflies sport large coloured eyes. 

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Dragonfly (left)-Mark Simmons, Damselfly (right)-M. Reeder

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