Smiling Dragonfly

Photographer: Kapil Raichana

Insect

Photographer: Thomas Philip

Helicopter or Dragon Fly?

Photographer: Kapil Raichana

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Honey bee

Butterfly

caterpillar

Praying Mantis

photography by Thomas Philip

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A Common name for the order is "Praying mantises", bcoz of its typical "prayer-like" stance.In Europe, the name "praying mantis" refers to Mantis religiosa.and  the most  closest relatives of mantises are the  termites and cockroaches. They are sometimes confused with stick/leaf insects and other elongated insects such as grasshoppers and crickets.An interesting fact about this insect is that, while they are mating, the female mantis eats the males mantis head.The female praying mantis "sexual predator or misunderstood"? still no one knows why?it maybe because of the protein in the male body that helps the eggs to develop. Praying mantis have excellent eye sight and they can view objects till 18meters.

Spider

Photography by Thomas Philip

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Spiders are invertebrates,which means that they don't have backbones.spiders help plants reproduce my pollinating them.Spiders are a  vital source of food for birds,small mammals and fish.without spiders and other insects there wont be food for the ones dependent on them,as a result it will effect the food chain badly .Spiders are not counted in insects as insects body is divided into three and has six legs.Whereas spiders have eight legs and their body is divided into two(the abdomen and the thorax).the silk spinning glads that spiders have are called as spinsters,which is located at the tip of their abdomen.not all spiders spin web.its found that there are more than 30,000 species of spiders.Spiders are oviparous,which means they give eggs.another interesting fact is most spiders have either six or eight eyes.most spiders inject venom with the help of fangs.Spider bites can be very painfull and also may prove to be fatal

Ant

Photography by Thomas Philip

Like most insects, Ants have six legs.Wherein Each leg has three joints. Their legs are very strong, they can run very quickly.if a man could run as fast as ant does as per his size then he could run as fast a racehorse.Another interesting thing is ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. Their   antenae is not only used for touch but also for sense of smell.Their jaws open and shut sideways similar to a pair of scissors.Its found that  Adult ants  are not able to chew and swallow solid food, instead they swallow the juice from the piece of food and throw away the leftover dry part.They have two eyes,wherein each eye is made of many smaller eyes.which are called as compound eyes .the outer body of the ants are covered with a hard armour which is called as exoskeleton.till date there are over 10000 known species of ants and i dont know what type of ant is shown in the pic above ,lol.And each of the ant colonies has one or more Queens 

Bee

Photography by Thomas philip

Honey bees'wings beat so fast that it goes upto 11,400 times/minute and its flight speed averages to only 15miles/hour.Bees have five eyes.They can easily perceive movements that are separated by 1/300th of a sec. Whereas humans can only sense movements that are separated by 1/50 of a sec.If a Bee were to enter a cinema hall then it would easily sense each individual movie frame being projected.another fact about bees is that they cannot recognise red color.Stringer bees have barbs which anchors the stringer in the victims body.

bees communicate with one another by dancing mostly to give directions of the flowers.a bee hive can contain upto 40000-45000 bees.The queen bee is the only sexually developed female in the beehive.and she only mates once in her lifetime and can lay about 3000 eggs a day.The life expectency of a Queen bee is upto 2years

Cock-Bird

photography by Thomas philip

Macro

photography by Thomas

Beautiful shot

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Grasshopper

photography by Thomas philip

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                         Grasshoppers are found everywhere in the world except in colder regions such as the south and north poles.A typical grasshopper can jump up to 20 times the length  of its own body.this huge jump is possible because of the contraction of the muscles.grasshoppers can destroy an entire crop on cotton or other grains causing huge losses.

Clippedwing Grasshopper (Metaleptea brevicornis)

Photography by Thomas Philip

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Grasshoppers have 5 Eyes but No Ears
Grasshoppers possess two large eyes (each with thousands of single lenses) on either side of the head, thereby enabling them to see in all directions. Of the remaining three small eyes, two are found at the base of each antennae and the fifth eye is found between the two antennae. However, the function of these smaller eyes is still unknown. Grasshoppers do not possess ears for hearing; instead they use organs called 'tympana' to carry out the hearing function. These tympana are circular membranes located in the first abdominal segment of the body, where the hind legs are attached. 

Grasshoppers Sing Songs
One attractive feature of grasshoppers is their ability to sing. Different subfamilies of grasshoppers produce the songs differently. Some types are found to clatter their wings together in flight, to produce a song, while some rub their wings together to make sound while others rub the pegs on their hind legs to make sounds. Then there are those types that do not make any sound at all. Male grasshoppers are the ones that sing and they do it in order to attract the females or to warn off the other males.