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The grape leaf skeletonizer moth lays eggs on the underside of grape leaves. The larvae eat all the veins of the leaf, leaving a skeleton
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An owlet moth – the nocturnal insects can detect the sonar call of bats to avoid being eaten
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The cuckoo wasp is parasitic and lays its eggs in other wasps’ nests
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The assassin bug injects its prey with a lethal cocktail of poison and digestive enzymes
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A bean leaf beetle, which spends all its life stages on bean plants
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Big Dipper fireflies light up the nights of the eastern United States
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A carpenter ant – with its chisel-like mandibles it carves out galleries in wood, leaving a fine sawdust
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Spider wasps lay single eggs in paralysed spiders. The egg hatches and the larva eats the still-living spider
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The green immigrant leaf weevil entered North America in the 1900s from Germany
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The mantis is a predator, equipped to ambush and eat its prey
