tropical insects
Equatorial creeping creatures
Tropical insects are insects native to or found in tropical regions—the warm, humid zones near the equator.
The phrase typically evokes the exceptional diversity and often large size of insects in rainforests and other tropical habitats: The field guide covered tropical insects from beetles to butterflies.
It may also reference species kept as exotic pets or studied for their unusual adaptations.
- rain forestWet, dense tropical woodland
- beetlesHard-winged insects
- jewel beetleIridescent wood-boring insect
- antsSocial colony insects
- fireflyBioluminescent nocturnal beetle
bees · antennae · wings · dragonflies · butterflies · atlas moth · termites · mosquitoes · mosquito net · bug spray · cocoon · moths · mantis · army ants · iridescent · cicada · tsetse · larva
- invertebrate ecologyecological niches, food webs, predator-prey, mutualism, parasitism
- insectsant, ants, bee, bees, butterfly