Common insects and other backyard bugs with an identifying feature and their ecological role, one bug per card.
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- Round red beetle with black spots that preys on aphids and scales
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Ladybug (ladybird beetle)- Golden-fuzzy insect that produces honey and pollinates flowers
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Honeybee- Tiny insect living in colonies with queen and worker castes, farms aphids or spreads seeds
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Ant- Brown or green insect with enlarged hind legs for jumping, eats plant matter
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Grasshopper- Large insect with huge compound eyes and two pairs of wings, hunts mosquitoes and small flies
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Dragonfly- Scaled-wing insect with bright colors that drinks nectar and pollinates flowers
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Butterfly- Black insect that chirps at night by rubbing wings and eats grass and plants
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Cricket- Nocturnal insect with dull-colored scaled wings, attracted to lights, pollinates flowers
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Moth- Eight-legged arachnid that weaves webs and eats insects
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Spider- Smooth stinging insect with thin waist, builds paper nests, hunts insects for larvae
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Wasp- Small fly with sponging mouthparts, breeds in decaying matter, spreads disease
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Housefly- Biting fly with needle-like mouthparts that feeds on blood and spreads disease
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Mosquito- Slender insect with narrow wings held along body, hunts small insects near water
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Damselfly- Triangular-headed insect with raptorial front legs that rotates head and eats live insects
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Praying mantis- Multi-legged arthropod with one pair of legs per body segment, hunts at night in soil
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