Order Phasmatodea

• Minor pest/invasive

• Tend to be long, thin

• Legs evenly spaced

• Long thorax

• VERY tiny

• May be wingless or have 4 wings

• Feed on bark

• May also feed on books.

Order Psocoptera (book lice, bark lice)

Order Mallophaga (chewing lice)

• Feed on flakes of skin, feathers, hairs

• Most feed on birds, but some also mammals

• Flattened bodies, with heads larger than thorax

Order Anoplura (Sucking Lice)

• THE lice

• Suck the blood of mammals

• Very tiny head, smaller than thorax

• Wingless, broad/flattened bodies

Functionally diverse• ALL have a sucking

‘beak’• Most have wings,

distinctive• Includes: Water

Skimmers, Assassin Bugs, Stink Bugs, Harlequin Bugs, Bed Bugs and many many many more.

Hemiptera: Corixidae

• Water Boatmen

• Feed on algae

• Tiny forelegs scoop food into mouth

• Large hindlegs

Hemiptera: Notonectidae

• Backswimmers

• Upside down

• Large hind legs

• Small predatory for and mid legs