INSECTS

6-letter Insects that contain R

Insects with exactly 6 letters that contain R — full profile for each.

You're looking for 6-letter insects containing R — here are 4 matches, each linked to a full profile.

List of 6-letter Insects that contain R

    1

    Chafer

    Melolontha melolontha (cockchafer) and related Scarabaeidae

    Large, clumsy, nocturnal beetles that blunder noisily into windows and lights on warm summer evenings — the adults are harmless leaf-grazers but the larvae (white C-shaped grubs) live in soil for 3–4 years eating plant roots, damaging lawns and crops; badgers and rooks dig up turf to find them.

    2

    Earwig

    Forficula auricularia

    A nocturnal insect with prominent rear pincers and a famous (false) reputation for crawling into human ears, an attentive mother to its eggs and young.

    3

    Hornet

    Vespa crabro (European); Vespa mandarinia (Asian giant)

    A large social wasp with a particularly painful sting — including the European hornet that builds paper nests in tree hollows and the notorious Asian giant hornet, the "murder hornet" that decimates honeybee colonies.

    4

    Spider

    Araneae (order)

    An eight-legged predatory arachnid (technically not an insect but commonly grouped with them) — over 50,000 species worldwide, with prey-capture techniques ranging from web-building to ambush, jumping, lassoing, and net-casting.

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