Images of invertebrates found and photographed across North America by wildlife photographer Rich Leighton.
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3 galleriesArachnids are an ancient group of predatory animals that include spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks, harvestmen and other interesting creatures like solifugids. Arachnids differ from insects because they have have only two body segments, have eight legs, no wings or antennae, and are unable to chew. -
5 imagesImages of crustaceans found and photographed along North America's beaches and coasts. -
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10 imagesImages of grasshoppers and locusts found and photographed across North America. -
31 imagesRoughly half of the lifeforms alive today on earth are insects. As wildly different as they are in appearance, behavior and the habitats where they live, they all have certain things in common: they all have an exoskeleton made of chitin, three pairs of legs, three main body parts (head, thorax and abdomen), compound eyes and one pair of antennae. It is believed that there are over a million species found around the world. That's a lot of bugs! -
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19 imagesImages of snails and other mollusks found and photographed across North America.