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  1. aphids: tiny insects that suck juices from plants
  2. butterfly: diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
  3. centipedes: predaceous, chiefly nocturnal arthropods having elongated, flattened bodies composed of 15 to 173 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair being poison fangs
  4. daddy longlegs: spider-like arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs
  5. earthworm: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil
  6. fire ant: omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
  7. fruit fly: any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits
  8. grasshopper: terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
  9. honeybee: social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
  10. horsefly: large, swift, stinging fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals
  11. housefly: common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases
  12. June bug: any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring
  13. ladybug: small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
  14. mantis: predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions
  15. mealybug: scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion
  16. millipede: herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having cylindrical bodies of 20 -100+ segments most with two pairs of legs
  17. mosquito: two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
  18. moth: typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
  19. scorpion: arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous sting
  20. termite: whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood
  21. wasp: social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
  22. wolf spider: ground spider that hunts its prey instead of using a web