Predaceous Diving Beetle Pill Bug Banded Garden Spider Acilius abbreviatus N Armadillidium vulgare I Argiope trifasciata N This brochure includes 40 insects, 2 crustaceans, A resident of freshwater ponds, the Pill Bugs are another species of woodlice, This orbweaver spider has dark bands around Bugs in 1 centipede, 1 millipede, 1 harvestman, and Predaceous Diving Beetle preys on small but without the tail-like appendages and its body, and brown and black rings on its 8 spiders. Adult insects have 3 body parts, 6 legs, water animals, its flattened back legs with the ability to roll up when disturbed. legs. The large, concentrically patterned and 2 antennae; most also have wings. Spiders paddling its streamlined body through Woodlice do not cause damage to healthy web that it makes in tall grass and shrubby have 2 body parts and 8 legs. Crustaceans have the water. An air bubble trapped under plants. They are a useful part of the vegetation is able to hold large insects, such 5 or more pairs of legs, while centipedes and the wings allows it to breathe. composting process. as wasps and grasshoppers. millipedes have many body segments and many legs. Common Water Strider Stone Centipede Zebra Jumping Spider While some bugs destroy crops and spread disease, others pollinate flowers and food Aquarius remigis N Lithobius sp. I Salticus scenicus I crops. Bugs provide food for other animals, help control plant and animal populations, Water striders have long, slender This non-insect arthropod has 15 pairs Named for its vivid black-and-white colour, and break down dead things. Factors such as climate change and insecticides are legs, allowing their body weight to be of legs. A pair of front legs are modified this spider, like other jumping spiders, does causing Earth to lose 1-2% of its insects each year. In 2020, Delta was designated distributed over a large surface area. They as fangs to deliver venom to prey. When not build a web, but instead stalks and a Bee City by Bee City Canada for committing to protect pollinators and their habitat. feed on mosquito larvae living under the threatened, it can fling sticky liquid from its pounces on its prey. Before jumping, it glues Use the iNaturalist app or inaturalist.org to identify bugs and record their locations. surface, dead insects on the surface, and last pair of legs. Its diet consists of insects, a silk thread to a surface so that if it misses, other insects that land on the water. spiders, slugs, and worms. it can go back and try again. = Pollinator N = Native I = Introduced Carolina Grasshopper Yellow-spotted Millipede Running Crab Spider Western Honey Bee Dissosteira carolina N Harpaphe haydeniana N Philodromus dispar I Apis mellifera I This is one of the largest grasshoppers The yellow spots are a warning, as this Male Running Crab Spiders are shiny and Domesticated for honey production and in North America. It is usually not noticed millipede can produce cyanide as a defence. iridescent black with white edges. Females pollination, they transport pollen between until it takes wing, when it is often Found in forests along the Pacific Coast, it are variable in colour. They do not build plants and bring it back to the hive for food. mistaken for a butterfly. It is common breaks down leaf litter, freeing its nutrients webs, but catch insects by running them The hive consists of a single queen, a few in disturbed areas, such as dykes, where for other organisms. Males have 30 pairs down. They are named for their ability to hundred male drones, and thousands of it feeds mostly on grasses. of legs, females have 31. scuttle sideways or backwards. female worker bees. Two-striped Grasshopper European Harvestman Goldenrod Crab Spider Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Melanoplus bivittatus N Phalangium opilio I Misumena vatia N Bombus vosnesenskii N Yellowish-green, with a pair of pale yellow Sometimes called “daddy-longlegs”, This spider will change its colour to match This large bumble bee is the most abundant stripes along the top of its body, the Two- harvestmen, like spiders, have 2 body the flower where it is hunting. It feeds one on the West Coast. It has a yellow face, striped Grasshopper produces a low buzzing sections and 8 legs and do not have on insects such as flies, bees, butterflies, partly yellow thorax, a black body, and a sound by rubbing its hindwings against its antennae. Unlike spiders, the body sections grasshoppers, dragonflies, and hoverflies, yellow segment on the abdomen. BC’s 32 forewings. It feeds on a variety of plants. are joined, and they do not have web- using its small fangs to paralyze its prey species of native bumble bees are critical for spinning organs or poison glands. with venom. pollinating food crops and wild plants. European Earwig Giant House Spider Western Black Widow Common Eastern Bumble Bee Forficula auricularia I Eratigena duellica I Latrodectus hesperus N Bombus impatiens I Earwigs are slender nocturnal insects Like other spiders, this one has 8 eyes, The venom of female Black Widow Spiders Imported from eastern North America to with defensive pincers on the tip of 8 legs, and 2 appendages called pedipalps is active against a range of animals but BC as a pollinator, this bumble bee is now their abdomens. Though considered a on the front of the head, used to hold prey not fatal to humans. Symptoms are pain, established in the Lower Mainland. Like pest, they can also be seen as beneficial while eating. Its web is flat and messy, nausea, goosebumps, and localized other bees, it has long antennae, 4 wings, because they prey on agricultural pests, with a funnel at one end where it waits sweating. The female often has a red and hairy abdomen and legs. Head and including aphids. for prey to be trapped. mark on the lower abdomen. abdomen are black; thorax is yellow. Firebrat Cross Orbweaver Black-tailed Bumble Bee Thin-legged Wolf Spider N Thermobia domestica I Araneus diadematus I Pardosa sp. N Bombus melanopygus Firebrats and silverfish are similar in This common spider has a cross-shaped These predators move quickly, using their Also called Orange-rumped Bumble Bee appearance. These wingless, nocturnal marking on its back and builds a wheel- long legs to grab prey. Unlike most other because of the orange band on its abdomen, insects have 2 long antennae on their head shaped web of sticky silk. Prey insects spiders, they have excellent eyesight. This this bumble bee is unusual for sometimes and 3 long bristles at the back. Firebrats that blunder into the web are quickly female is carrying an egg sac. Once the eggs nesting above ground. Except for new prefer hot, moist areas. They like sugar and bitten, wrapped in silk, and stored hatch, the spiderlings will stay on the female’s queens, which hibernate during winter, starch, including glue in book bindings. for later consumption. abdomen for about a week before dispersing. bumble bee colonies die in late fall. Sow Bug Cross Orbweaver (spiderlings) Mason Bee Porcellio scaber I Araneus diadematus I Photos and text by members of the Osmia sp. N Like other woodlice, Sow Bugs are These tiny yellow and black spiders are Mason bees are solitary and do not produce crustaceans and breathe with gills. They newly hatched Cross Orbweavers. The female DELTA honey. Females make nest cells of mud, have armour-like shells made of 7 hard lays up to 800 eggs each autumn, covering NATURALISTS laying an egg in each cell and covering plates, 2 pairs of antennae, 7 pairs of legs, them with silk to protect them until they SOCIETY it with mud. They gather pollen for the and 2 appendages that look like tails. They hatch in spring. If disturbed, the bundle of © 2021 nests in a “brush” on the underside of their cannot roll up when they are disturbed. They spiderlings will disperse on tiny silken safety abdomen, instead of in hind-leg “baskets” feed on organic material in moist habitats. lines before forming a clump again. dncb.wordpress.com like most bees. European Wool Carder Bee Thread-waisted Wasp Spotted Asparagus Beetle Bronze Ground Beetle Anthidium manicatum I Ammophila sp. N Crioceris duodecimpunctata I Carabus nemoralis I These solitary bees have yellow stripes and/ This black wasp has a bulging abdomen This leaf beetle is orange with 12 black Beetles make up about 40% of all insect or spots. Females comb wool fibres from with an orange band near the hair-thin dots. The larvae feed only on the asparagus species, and about 25% of all animals. plants to use as nesting material. When waist. Adults feed on flower nectar berries, while adults prefer tender shoots Ground beetles have a tough shell for their “pollen brushes” are full, they are very and small insects such as caterpillars, and leaves. It is a serious pest of this plant. protection. They hunt at night. Many give yellow. Males use their abdominal spikes paralyzing them to take to their larvae The larvae are orange and slug-like with off bad-tasting chemicals. This flightless to drive off other insects. in underground nests. visible heads and legs. import preys on introduced slugs. Male Green Sweat Bee Narrow-headed Marsh Fly St John’s Wort Beetle Red Soldier Beetle Agapostemon sp. N Helophilus fasciatus N Chrysolina hyperici I Rhagonycha fulva I Although these small bees primarily feed Like other hoverflies, marsh flies mimic About the size of a lady beetle, this beetle Introduced from Eurasia, the Red Soldier on pollen and nectar, they must augment the colours of wasps and bees to ward off was introduced to control wild St John’s Beetle is shiny red with black antennae their diet with salt and moisture, which predators, but they cannot sting. They have Wort, which can be harmful to livestock. and black at the end of the wings. Adults attracts them to human sweat. They are short antennae and 2 wings. Hoverflies Eggs are deposited in July and August. The feed on aphids, pollen, and nectar. Larvae solitary and dig burrows in the ground to are the second most important group of larva feeds on root tissue for the following prey on ground-dwelling invertebrates, lay their eggs. pollinators after wild bees. year, then forms a pupa. such as slugs and snails. Bald-faced Hornet Flower Fly Black Vine Weevil Flower Longhorn Beetle Dolichovespula maculata N Syrphus sp. N Otiorhynchus sulcatus I Xestoleptura crassipes N Distinguished by their black-and-white Flower flies are also a type of hoverfly. The adult weevil is matte black with fused Several hundred species of longhorn colouring, these wasps build large, Adults feed on pollen and nectar, while wing covers, and is unable to fly. It feeds beetles live in our region, and they are hanging, paper nests that contain a queen larvae prey upon pest insects, including at night on the outer edges of leaves, probably the most important pollinating and up to 700 workers. Adults eat insects, aphids. In many flies, the eyes of males giving them a notched margin. Broad- beetle. They have long antennae and spiders, and fruit, but they feed flower meet on the top of the head and those leaved evergreen plants are particularly colourful bodies. Insects use antennae nectar to their larvae. of females are widely separated. prone to damage. for touch, smell, and taste. German Yellowjacket Carpenter Ant Western Tiger Beetle Lined June Beetle Vespula germanica I Camponotus sp. N Cicindela oregona N Polyphylla crinita N Like other wasps, they are smooth rather These large black ants, with red legs and Tiger beetles are active predators with large These are large beetles with stripes on than hairy, with a narrow waist and 4 yellow abdominal hairs, eat dead insects eyes, sickle-like mandibles, and thread-like their wing covers. They make a hissing wings. Yellowjackets have black antennae. and sugary liquids. They do not eat wood segmented antennae. This colourful species sound when disturbed. This local species They build paper-covered nests in wall but chew tunnels to make living spaces. lives in sandy or muddy soil near water. It is has “peach fuzz” on the front of the thorax. cavities, trees, and the ground. Wasps Wingless females do the work. Winged fast running and quick to fly. The larvae live Larvae feed on plant roots; the nocturnal are important predators of pest insects. males and females fly to form new colonies. in burrows and ambush insect prey. adults feed mostly on conifer needles. European Paper Wasp Thatching Ant Audouin’s Night-stalking Golden Jewel Beetle Polistes dominula I Formica sp. N Tiger Beetle Omus audouini N Buprestis aurulenta N Paper wasps have thinner bodies than Black with red heads, thatching ants This rare tiger beetle is restricted to small The adult beetle is iridescent green, with yellowjackets, and their antennae are produce large nest mounds covered by plant areas around Boundary Bay and Victoria. shining orange trim all around the wing orange. The nests, which hang upside material. There can be up to 40,000 adult It is distinguished by its uniformly dark covers. Adults feed on needles and bark. down and look like open honeycombs, workers per colony. They feed on plants, appearance, inability to fly, and nocturnal Larvae tunnel inside coniferous trees and are often built on human-made insects, and nectar from insects that they habits. Adults hunt down their prey; larvae can survive for several years in dry wood structures and house about 250 wasps. tend. Ants are excellent seed dispersers. attack prey close to their burrows. before emerging as adults. American Sand Wasp Seven-spotted Lady Beetle Oregon Stag Beetle Green Stink Bug Bembix americana N Coccinella septempunctata I Platycerus oregonensis N Chlorochroa sp. N This large, green-eyed, striped wasp There are about 5,000 species of lady Male stag beetles have large antler-like Stink bugs have needle-like mouth parts feeds on flower nectar. The female digs a beetles in the world. This one has been mandibles used to wrestle each other used to suck up the insides of plants. They nest in sandy soil and stocks it with flies introduced because both larvae and over food and mating sites. Larvae feed inject enzymes that break down plant for the single larva, opening and closing adults eat aphids. After about 10 days of for several years on rotting wood, while tissues, then vacuum up the resulting the hole each time she visits. They play a eating, larvae form a chrysalis. The adult adults feed on tree sap and decaying fruit. nutritional slurry. Stink bugs create smelly major role in controlling fly populations. emerges in about a week. This species lives in decaying hardwoods. chemicals to defend themselves. Larva Mud-dauber Wasp Asian Lady Beetle European Gazelle Beetle Western Conifer Seed Bug Sceliphron caementarium N Harmonia axyridis I Nebria brevicollis I Leptoglossus occidentalis N Another solitary wasp, the mud-dauber This species has zero to 22 black spots of This large European ground beetle is black or This species sucks the sap of growing collects mud balls for constructing a nest variable size. As a predator of aphids and dark brown, with brown legs and antennae. conifer cones. Groups may be seen of up to 25 cells. The female captures scale insects, it has been introduced into It preys on other insects. First seen in Oregon in congregated on branch tips or cones on spiders to put in the cells, then deposits a many countries. Like all lady beetles, when 2007, it was first found in the Lower Mainland the sunny side of the tree. They exude an single egg on the prey and seals the cells threatened, this species secretes an oily, in 2015. Its introduction may have been offensive odour as a defence mechanism with mud. When the larvae hatch, they foul-tasting fluid from its legs. The red colour through ship ballast or plant nursery material. when handled. will eat the spiders. Larva warns predators of their bad taste.