Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Ladybirds

Insect follows Coccinellidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-5 mm, wings are red with 11 black spots, thorax and head are black with white spots. Adults and larvas are predators to Aphids, and have important role in biological control programs of Aphids.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Ladybirds

Insect follows Coccinellidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 6.5-10 mm, wings are red with 7 black spots, thorax and head are black with white spots. Adults and larvas are predators to Aphids, and have important role in biological control programs of Aphids.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 10-15 mm, and has black colour. It is a desert insect, appears during day light and is very fast.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 10-15 mm, and has black colour. It is a desert insect, appears during day light and is very fast.

Kingdom : Assassin bugs, Bugs, Insects

Insect follows Reduviidae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is 9 mm, and is silverin colour. It exists on herbal plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 15-20 mm, and has black colour. It is a desert insect.

Kingdom : Cockroach, Cockroaches, Insects

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Ladybirds

Insect follows Coccinellidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 1.7-2.2 mm, and wings are between yellowish to reddish brown with a middle vertical black stripe. It is a predator to several kinds of insects including Aphids and Scale Insects.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 8 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Dragonflies, Insects, Skimmers or Perchers

Insect follows Libellulidae family, and Odonata order. It is glossy black with yellow spots and wings are membranous. Size is about 35-45 mm. Adults have strong wings, help them fly fast and chase prey. Adults are predators to flying insects especially flies and mosquitoes. Nymphs live in water, and are predators to mosquito’s larvas and […]

Kingdom : Brush-footed butterflies or Four-footed butterflies, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Nymphalidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Half wing is velvet black from the base, and the other is blue with orange spots on the wing. Wing is 40 mm long. Larvas attack big number of plant families.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 2.5 mm, and has brown colour.

Kingdom : Dragonflies, Insects, Skimmers or Perchers

Insect follows Libellulidae family, and Odonata order. It is bright red and wings are membranous. Size is about 32-40 mm. Adults have strong wings, help them fly fast and chase prey. Adults are predators to flying insects especially flies and mosquitoes. Nymphs live in water, and are predators to mosquito’s larvas and micro-organisms living in […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 3.5-5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 20-28 mm, has a black colour, with big thorax, and produces malodor from a gland on abdomen side. It is a predator and fast insect.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 20-28 mm, black, and with big thorax. It is a predator and fast moving insect.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-6 mm, and has blackish brown colour.

Kingdom : Bugs, Cicadas, Insects

Insect follows Cicadidae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 20-24 mm, and is grey and brown in colour. Larvas feed on tree roots, causing great harm to trees. Adults are distinguished with a unique squeaking noise during daylight when mating.

Kingdom : Insects, Leaf miners, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Geometridae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is light brown, wing is 5mm long. Larva are dangerous pests for citrus and some other plants. Larva dig tutas in leaves, causing dryness and leaf fall.

Kingdom : Beetles, Click beetles, Insects

Insect follows Elateridae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 13 mm, and has rusty red colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 4 mm, and has yellowish brown colour.

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Whites, Yellows, or Sulphurs

Insect follows Pieridae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wing is yellowish orange and ends are black. Wing is about 45-62 mm long. Larvas attack various plants of Leguminosae, causing great harm to fodder plants including clover and Lucerne.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 8 mm, and has brown colour.

Kingdom : Hawk moths, Sphinx moths, and Hornworms, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Sphingidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wing is grey; abdomen is black, rose and white lines. Wing is about 80-105 mm long. Larvas attack bindweed leaves and some plants of Convolvulaceae, Araceae , and Leguminosae.

Kingdom : Birds, Cormorant

Slightly smaller than the Great Cormorant, it has a slimmer head and neck. Adult has sooty black plumage with bronze green wings and back, and without white face and chin patch of Great Cormorant. Bill is much slimmer than that of Great Cormorant and appears paler against dark head. In breeding plumage, more glossy and […]

Kingdom : Bugs, Insects, Plant bugs

Insect follows Miridae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 8-10 mm, and is black and white colour. It feeds by sucking on plants.

Kingdom : Birds, Coursers and Whimbrels

Adapted to desert habitat, well camouflaged; runs quickly with plover-like behaviour and sudden stops, prefers running away rather than flying. Mainly sandy buff with distinctive black and white head markings joining in ‘V’ on nape, bill short and down-curved. When standing has an erect posture with long pale legs. Flight rapid with long, slightly rounded […]

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Tiger moths

Insect follows Arctiidae family, and Hemiptera order. It has white with black and red spots, and wing is 30-42 mm. Butterfly flies during daylight. Larva feed on Al Ramram plant (Heliotropium bacciferum). It breeds more than once in a year.

Kingdom : Birds, Crow

A slim crow with a scrawny appearance. It has a domed crown, a long deep bill and a long tail.The grey nape, neck and breast clearly demarcated from black face and remaining black plumage. Gregarious.

Kingdom : Grass moths, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Crambidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wings colour is white with dark brown marks. Wing is 30 mm long. Butterfly is diurnal. Larvas feed on Hodgsonia male plants (marrow). Pest causes great harm to marrow plant. The insect breeds more than once a year.

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5.5-7 mm, and has glossy black colour. Body is arched and lives in deserts.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 24-27 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 23-27 mm, and has black colour. It lives in desert.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Insect follows Scarabaeidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 35-40 mm, and has glossy black colour. It is considered a pest of palm trees, as larvas dig long tutas in palm leaves and clusters, so they fall.

Kingdom : Hawk moths, Sphinx moths, and Hornworms, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Sphingidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Frontal wing color is brown, with yellow waves. Back wing is yellow with brown waves. Wing is about 90-130 mm long. Female lays eggs individually on lower surface of Solanales especially sesame and potato. Moreover, it attacks other plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 3.5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. It is big-sized (between 35-40 mm) black beetle, with white spots. It is a predator for other kinds of insects, and moves fast.

Kingdom : Birds, Dove

Medium-small, sandy brown dove with narrow black half-collar on hindneck (absent in juvenile). Told from Turtle by unspotted sandy brown forewing (rufous, spotted blackish in Turtle), black neck-collar, whitish underwing (dark in Turtle), plainer uppertail (bolder patterned in Turtle), absence of well defined whitish belly-patch (present Turtle) and by less rapid flight with less jerky […]

Kingdom : Birds, Dove

Small, dark red-brown dove, recalling Collared in proportions but plumage closer to Turtle; smaller than both. Black-spotted patch on fore-neck and upper breast, unspotted red-brown upperparts with large, dull blue-grey area in outer-coverts distinguish it. Uppertail less contrasting than in Turtle. Juvenile lacks patch on fore-neck and is less richly coloured. Flight closer to Collared’s […]

Kingdom : Birds, Dove

Unmistakable at all ages. Very small blue-grey or grey-brown dove with long black central tail-feathers, recalling large Budgerigar in shape. In flight, black primaries show large red-brown patch. Male has black face and upper breast, which are brownish grey in female. Juvenile barred black and buff on crown, throat, wing-coverts and back. Very rapid flight […]

Kingdom : Birds, Dove

Medium-sized, compact, pale blue-grey pigeon, with two broad black bands across secondaries above and whitish or greyish rump. Underwing white with dark band at rear, black band on outer tail.The ancestor of the Feral Pigeon, some of which are very similar to Rock, others are blackish, whitish or reddish buff, but black bands on wing, […]

Kingdom : Dragonflies, Insects, Skimmers or Perchers

Kingdom : Birds, Duck

Slightly smaller than Tufted Duck, shape of head close to that of Pochard. No crest but higher crown than Tufted Duck. It has a flatter sloping forehead and longer dark grey bill with black nail when compared with Tufted Duck. Male is rich chestnut brown with white eye, sharply defined pure white undertail coverts and […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Insect follows Scarabaeidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 25-35 mm, and has black colour. Body is wide oval. Adult females fly to organic fertilizer piles, make different-sized balls sometimes bigger even than a beetle, and then roll it to suitable place and store underground.

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Snout moths

Insect follows Pyralidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wing is white, with brown spots. Wing is about 17-23 mm long. Larvas attack eggplants. Early hitting causes shoot tips of plant and plant decay. But in advanced stages, larvas dig tutus in eggplants that become unmerchantable.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 12-16 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Checkered beetles, Insects

Insect follows Cleridae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 19 mm, black with a wide white line in the middle, and thorax is reddish brown. Larvas are predator to Tuta Absoluta lavas inside trees.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 14-17 mm, and has black colour. Body is wide.

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Acrididae family, and Orthoptera order. It is light brown with black spots, size is about 20-25 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Back legs are strong and long, help them move through jumping. Adults lay eggs in groups in soil.

Kingdom : Geometer moths, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Geometridae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is green or light green, wing is 20 mm long. Larva feed on herbs.

Kingdom : Crickets, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Gryllidae family, and Orthoptera order. It is glossy black with two yellow spots. Size is about 30-35 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Male makes sounds through rubbing outer wings with each other all night to attract female and warn other males.

Kingdom : Bugs, Firebug, Insects

Insect follows Pyrrhocoridae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 11-13 mm, and is red and black in colour. It feeds by sucking on plants.

Kingdom : Cockroach, Cockroaches, Insects

Kingdom : Insects, Mantis

Insect follows Mantidae family, and Mantodea order. It is green and size is about 100 mm. The insect is a predator to other insects.

Kingdom : Birds, Grebe

The biggest Grebe in the region. Swims while keeping its long body low, with its graceful, long white neck held upright. During flight it keeps the neck extended and feet under the line of the body. It has a large white patch on the secondaries, white border to front of underwing and on shoulders along […]

Kingdom : Birds, Grebe

The smallest Grebe in the region. Identified by small size, blunt-ended body, short neck and bill, and absence of white in upperwing. Adult birds have dark brown throat and cheeks with a yellow gape patch. In the winter, adult and juveniles paler brown above, pale buff below, variably mixed with dull chestnut on fore-neck (adult). […]

Kingdom : Green lacewings, Insects, Net-Winged Insects

Insect follows Chrysopidae family, and Neuroptera order. It is green, size is about 12-20 mm. Adults feed on flower nectars, whereas nymphs are predators to Aphids.

Kingdom : Bugs, Insects, Milkweed bugs or Seed bugs

Insect follows Lygaeidae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 11-13 mm, and is red and black in colour. It feeds by sucking on plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Leaf beetles

Insect follows Chrysomelidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-6 mm, red grey and has fluff. It attacks Acacia tree seeds, and may cause harm to seed stocks. In some countries, it attacks Tamarind trees.

Kingdom : Diggers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Gryllotalpidae family, and Orthoptera order. It is brown, size is about 30-35 mm. Adults dig tunnels under soil, attack stems of plants, vegetables and trees; causing the death of young plants. It causes economic harms for crops especially when they are buds.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-6 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Grass moths, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Crambidae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is brown, wing is 22-24 mm long. Butterfly is diurnal. Larva feed on spinach, beta vulgaris, cotton, corn, and soya beans. It feeds on lower parts of plants. Larva are large, somewhat like leaf veins. Growing up to 19 mm in length.

Kingdom : Birds, Lark

Large, slender lark, easily identified by its long decurved bill, rather long pale legs, long tail and, in flight, bold black and white bands through wings. Upperparts unstreaked sandy grey-buff, underparts whitish, often spotted black on breast; whitish supercilium, dark eye and malar-stripe. Juvenile spotted on mantle but almost without breast-spots; bill less decurved. Speedy […]

Kingdom : Flies, House flies or Stable flies, Insects

Insect follows Muscidae family, and Diptera order. They are of the most widespread insects around the world and exist in all areas of planet earth, and may transfer dangerous infections. Size is between 5-8 mm, thorax is grey with four dark vertical lines on back. Hair covers whole body, and it has a pair of […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 10 mm, and has black colour with short yellow hair. Body is long.

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Acrididae family, and Orthoptera order. It is light brown with black, size is about 20 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Back legs are strong and long, help them move through jumping. Adults lay eggs in groups in soil.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Jewel beetles

Beetle follows Buprestidae family, and Coleoptera order. The beetle is big-sized (between 29-31 mm), has a glossy green colour with glossy yellow spots. It feeds on wild tree flower’s nectar from Aril to June. Larva has a flattened head and lives as diggers inside wild trees.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 15-18 mm, and has grey colour.

Kingdom : Birds, Lark

Resembles Desert Lark in general appearance but smaller, with more upright stance, rounder head and with orange-yellow bill shorter and finer, also told from Desert by clear-cut black band to tip of reddish brown tail, best seen when tail spread in flight (in Desert, dark brown tail gradually merges into paler brown base) and by […]

Kingdom : Birds, Lark

Rather stocky, pot-bellied, short-tailed lark; long spiky crest always visible; bill fairly long, slightly curved. Upperparts buffish grey or rusty, rather uniform, diffusely streaked darker on hindneck/upper mantle; breast more heavily streaked. Flight with flapping wing-beats on broad wings showing rusty buff underwings and blackish brown short tail with cinnamon sides. Juvenile heavily pale-spotted above. […]

Kingdom : Birds, Lark

Dumpy, short-tailed lark with broad, rounded wings and floppy, slow, undulating flight. Colour variable, grey-brown with much variation; generally, they are unstreaked above except for vague mottling on mantle in some; underparts buffish or greyish white, unmarked in some, but diffusely streaked breast in others; rufous tinge to rump, flight-feathers and underwings in many. Longish, […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5.8-6.3 mm, and has black or blackish brown colour. It is a desert insect. Antennas and body have dense short yellow hair. It is a dangerous pest for food storage, and a significant transporter of poultry diseases and parasites.

Kingdom : Flies, Fruit flies, Insects

Insect follows Tephritidae family, and Diptera order. Larvas grow in fruits of vast group of pumpkin and wild crops such as cucumber, watermelon and marrow. Fly lays eggs under fruits’ crust, breeds after 1-2 days. Larva feed inside fruit for 5-6 days, then returned to soil or under host plant. Adults appeart after 2-4 weeks. […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Longhorn beetles

Insect follows Cermbycidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 30-45 mm, and is reddish brown. Larvas are white, dig inside palm trees, and have long antennas. Adults appear at night.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Longhorn beetles

Insect follows Cermbycidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5-8 mm, yellowish brown, and nocturnal. It was found in Doha Ziziphus. Larvas dig inside tree branches. Adults have unique long antennas.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 2.5-3 mm, and has brown colour. It is a dangerous pest in grain storage.

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Acrididae family, and Orthoptera order. It is light brown with black, size is about 25 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Back legs are strong and long, help them move through jumping. Adults lay eggs in groups in soil.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 2-2.5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Insects, Mantis

Insect follows Mantidae family, and Mantodea order. It is dusty and legs are brown spotted. Size is about 35 mm. Wings are short, with the same colours of rocks and sands where they live. It is a predator to other insects especially grasshopper and worms.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 11.5-14.5 mm, and has black colour. Body is long.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 12-15 mm, and has brown colour. Usually, larvas are used in petfoods (reptilia, fish and birds), and is useful because body contains high vitamins levels.

Kingdom : Bugs, Insects, Jumping plant lice

Insect follows Psyllidae family, and Hemiptera order. It was first discovered in Qater’s Masaed Town (Sealine resort). Size is 2 mm; male is green and female is black. It feeds by sucking on plants.

Kingdom : Birds, Hen

A dark waterhen with prominent red bill and shield, white flank line and constantly flirting tail, exhibiting white undertail-coverts both when walking and swimming. Swims with vigorous nodding movements and body stooped forward unlike Coot. Juvenile paler, grey-brown with dark bill, and distinguished from young Coot by white flank line and undertail pattern. Swims often […]

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Acrididae family, and Orthoptera order. It is light brown with black, size is about 25 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Back legs are strong and long, help them move through jumping. Adults lay eggs in groups in soil.

Kingdom : Antlion lacewings, Insects, Net-Winged Insects

Insect follows Myrmeleontidae family, and Neuroptera order. It is dark brown and sides are yellow. Size is about 20-30 mm. Nymphs are small, without wings, make traps in sand to catch insects especially ants. Adults have clear membranes wings and body is thin and long.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scavenger Scarab beetles

Insect follows Hybosoridae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 7-9 mm, and has glossy black colour. Adult feeds on both invertebrates and vertebrate’s carcasses in early decay stages.

Kingdom : Cockroach, Cockroaches, Insects

Kingdom : Birds, Eagle

Easily told by long, narrow wings, distinctly angled when gliding, white under-surface with black carpals and band through centre of underwing, white crown and dark eye-mask. Variable dusky band across fore-neck (usually boldest in female). Juvenile has whitish scales and white line on greater coverts above. Flies with very steady shallow wing-beats, glides on smoothly […]

Kingdom : Birds, Owl

Small owl with round, flat-crowned head and long legs; often sits in the open in daytime on buildings or telegraph-poles. Distinctly white-spotted crown and nape and white-blotched upperparts and wings; boldly streaked underparts; eyes yellow, framed white. Flight deeply undulating (alternating rapid flapping with closing of wings) unlike straighter flight of the scops owls. If […]

Kingdom : Brush-footed butterflies or Four-footed butterflies, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Nymphalidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Half wing is velvet black from the base, and the upper part is black with white spots on the wing. Wing is 40-50 mm long. Larvas attack big number of plant families, reaches about 300 plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 10-12 mm, and has silver colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 10 mm, and has grey colour.

Kingdom : Gossamer-winged butterflies, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Lycaenidae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is blue and brown, wing is 24-32 mm long. Larvas feed on flowers, seeds, and cores of many Leguminous plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5-7 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-5 mm, and has brown colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 17-20 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Whites, Yellows, or Sulphurs

Insect follows Pieridae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wing is white and black from ends. Wing is about 45-60 mm long. Larvas attack plants of Capparaceae, causing great economic harm to cabbages.

Kingdom : Brush-footed butterflies or Four-footed butterflies, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Nymphalidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Butterfly body is black with white spots, wings are yellowish black. Wing is 70-80 mm long. It flies from dawn till dusk. Female lays one oviparous on lower surface of leaves, then on the upper surface making several holes in leaves. Butterfly attacks several plant families including; Asclepiadoideae […]

Kingdom : Aphids, Bugs, Insects

Insect follows Aphididae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 3-4 mm, and has green (sometimes rose) colour. It feeds on perennial herbs, potato buds, lettuce inside glass houses, tomato and cabbage. It feeds on buds and the lower surfaces of leaves.

Kingdom : Birds, Warbler

Small, plain, pale grey and buff warbler with long graduated tail, which is frequently raised. Streaked on crown, mantle and back. Round head, pale face and prominent eye. Tail dark above, pale below with black and white tips. Underparts off-white and streaked. Bill fine, black in breeding male, brown in female. Active and tame, raely […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 8-10 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5-7 mm, and has yellow colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 7 mm, and has grey colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 2-3 mm, and has rusty red colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-5 mm, and has yellow colour.

Kingdom : Grasshoppers, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Insect follows Acrididae family, and Orthoptera order. It is light brown with green, size is about 20-25 mm. Adults and nymphs feed on herbal plants. Back legs are strong and long, help them move through jumping. Adults lay eggs in groups in soil.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 8-10 mm, and has black colour. Body is long.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5-7 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 7 mm, and has black colour. Body is long.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 13-15 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Weevils

Insect follows Dryophthoridae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 20-50 mm, and has rusty red colour. Larvas dig Tutas inside palm trees, causing tree death. It is one of the most dangerous insect pests for palm trees. Adults weakly feed on palm trees, and female lays about 200 eggs during life.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 2-3 mm, and has rusty red colour. It is a pest spread all over the world on stored products especially food grains. Moreover, it attacks flour, pasta, biscuits and beans.

Kingdom : Beetles, Checkered beetles, Insects

Insect follows Cleridae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 3.5-7 mm, has glossy greenish blue metallic colour; red legs and antennas. Insect feeds on meat fly larvas (Calliphora). Adult feeds on host surface whereas larvas feed inside dry or smoked meat, causing greater harm. Additionally, insect attacks bones, leather, coconut, dried egg, cheese and […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Insect follows Scarabaeidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 35-40 mm, and has glossy black colour. Adult females have frontal head antenna. It causes harm to palm trees, especially for palm clusters and leaves.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Insect follows Scarabaeidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 7-9 mm, and has reddish brown colour. Adult females are active in spring and summer, and though nocturnal beetles, they are attracted to light. Adult females feed on leaves, buds, and flowers of several plants, but larvas feed on plant roots.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Scarab beetles

Insect follows Scarabaeidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 20 mm, and has black colour. Larvas feed on crops such as corn and sugar beet. Moreover, larvas feed on grass roots.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 36 mm, black, and with big thorax. Front legs are raptorial for digging. It is nocturnal, hides at daytimes in sand. It is distinguished with parallel lines on upper body surface.

Kingdom : Bugs, Insects, Scentless plant bugs

Insect follows Rhopalidae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is 7 mm, and is brown in colour. It feeds on herbal plants.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Leaf beetles

Insect follows Chrysomelidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-6 mm, and is dark red with grey. Larvas feed on green or dry seeds of plants. In Africa, it is used in biological control to get rid of harmful grasses.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is 5 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Weevils (snout beetles)

Insect follows Curculionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 4-7 mm, and has grey colour. Adults feed on leaves especially peas and clover, whereas larvas feed on roots and root knots.

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Weevils (snout beetles)

Insect follows Curculionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 10.5-17 mm, grey colour and covered with yellow hair. Larvas dig inside plant stems, whereas adults feed on flowers and leaves.

Kingdom : Broad-headed bugs, Bugs, Insects

Insect follows Alydidae family, and Hemiptera order. Size is between 8-11 mm, and has bright brown colour. It feeds on cultivated and wild plant juices.

Kingdom : Birds, Finches and Sparrows

A common wide-spread sparrow. Male has a grey crown, chestnut brown sides to head, pale greyish cheeks, large black bib on chest and grey rump. Mantle and wing coverts are rufous-chestnut brown with a broad white wing bar on median coverts. Female and juvenile lack contrasting head and throat pattern, being buffish brown above, boldly […]

Kingdom : Birds, Finches and Sparrows

Resembles House Sparrow, but male has typically rufous brown crown and larger bib, extending to bold black streaks on breast and flanks. Back is boldly streaked black, marging at sides with black of breast. Cheeks are whitish, and the belly is white. It is not easy to distinguish female and juvenile from House Sparrow counterparts. […]

Kingdom : Birds, Lark

Small stocky lark with stout, deep-based, pale blue-grey bill with curved culmen. Male unmistakable with bold black and white head pattern, black underparts and underwing-coverts. Female has unstreaked pale sandy grey upperparts, faintly streaked crown, pale face and hindneck, pale buff underparts, faintly streaked across upper breast; blackish underwing-coverts always separate it from other small […]

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Tuft moths

Insect follows Nolidae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is white and green; wing is 17-23 mm long. This butterfly is a dangerous pest for okra plant. Female lays oviparous on okra; larvas penetrate, feed on it and become unmerchantable.

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Owlet moths

Insect follows Noctuidae family, and Lepidoptera order. It is grey-brown; wing is 36-50 mm long. Larvas feed on gramineous plant leaves in fields and farms.

Kingdom : Insects, Moths and Butterflies, Swallowtail butterflies

Insect follows Papilionidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Wing is yellow and black with two lower red spots. Wing is about 80-100 mm long. Larvas attack plants of Rutaceae, causing great economic harm to them.

Kingdom : Birds, Hen

Smaller but similar to Purple Swamphen, but colour of body, head and mantle is bluish purple and wings are dirty greenish. Habitat is mainly swampy areas with reed beds and tall grass.

Kingdom : Birds, Hen

Almost twice the size of Moorhen; huge red bill and frontal shield; red legs prominent. Plumage mostly uniform bluish with greyish head and neck. Swims with body stooped forward like Moorhen; white undertail-coverts often striking. In flight, shape like huge Moorhen with blue wings and long red legs. Juvenile drabber with greyish underparts, dull red […]

Kingdom : Crickets, Grasshoppers, Crickets and Locusts, Insects

Kingdom : Dragonflies, Hawkers or Darners, Insects

Insect follows Aeshnidae family, and Odonata order. It is brown with blue spots, wings are clear membrane. Size is about 60-70 mm. Adults have strong wings, help them fly fast and chase prey. Adults are predators to flying insects especially flies and mosquitoes. Nymphs live in water, and are predators to mosquito’s larvas and micro-organisms […]

Kingdom : Empusid, Insects, Mantis

Insect follows Empusidae family, and Mantodea order. It is green and white spotted. Size is about 60 mm. It is a predator to other insects. Adults can move head and thorax one side, but movement is slow.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 12-15 mm, colour is brassy bronze with white spots mostly connected to each others. Adults are diurnal and very active, whereas larvas live in holes. Adults and larvas are predators to smaller invertebrates and plays important role in biological insects’ control.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 9-12 mm, brassy brown; adults are diurnal and very fast whereas larvas live in holes. Adults and larvas are predators to smaller invertebrates, and plays important role in biological insect control.

Kingdom : Beetles, Ground beetles, Insects

Beetle follows Carabidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 18-22 mm, metallic green, and is a predator to smaller invertebrates.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 20-25 mm, and has grey colour.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 5-7 mm, and has black colour.

Kingdom : Birds, Warbler

Similar to Great Reed Warbler, but slightly smaller and slimmer with longer bill. A long more rounded tail, short wings with only 4 – 5 primary tips showing beyond tertials. Colder grey-brown plumage than Great Reed with less pronounced supercilium. Legs steely grey or or slate brown. Pale brown in Great Reed. Song is important […]

Kingdom : Beetles, Insects, Weevils (snout beetles)

Kingdom : Hawk moths, Sphinx moths, and Hornworms, Insects, Moths and Butterflies

Insect follows Sphingidae family, and Lepidoptera order. Frontal wing colour is dark brown, with black stripes. Back wing is black with a rose stripe. Wing is about 65-90 mm long. Larvas attack grapes, Herbs, sallow apples and tomatoes.

Kingdom : Beetles, Darkling beetles, Insects

Insect follows Tenebrionidae family, and Coleoptera order. Size is between 8-10 mm, and has black colour.