Wantsen

True bugs

Insects with a beak to pierce and suck, on land and on the water. Hover a picture, or tap it on a phone, to hear the name.

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Image credits

Photographs and drawings come from Wikimedia Commons and are reproduced under the licences below. All have been resized and converted to WebP for this site; they are otherwise unaltered.

de vuurwants — Firebug.jpg by Divotomezove, Attribution
de groene schildwants — Green_shield_bug_(Palomena_prasina)_3.jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
de pyjamaschildwants — Graphosoma_italicum_-_Kulna.jpg by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0
de bessenschildwants — Pentatomidae_-_Dolycoris_baccarum-001.JPG by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0
de roodpootschildwants — Pentatoma_rufipes_at_a_cherry_leaf.jpg by Alchemist-hp (www.pse-mendelejew.de), CC BY-SA 3.0
de zuringrandwants — Corée_marginée_(Coreus_marginatus).jpg by JackyM59, CC BY-SA 4.0
de bladpootrandwants — Leptoglossus_occidentalis_MHNT.jpg by Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0
de roofwants — Assassin_bug_(Rhynocoris_iracundus)_with_bee_(Apis_ssp)_prey.jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
de bedwants — Bed_bug,_Cimex_lectularius.jpg by Piotr Naskrecki / CDC, Public domain
de schaatsenrijder — Water_strider_(Gerridae_sp.)_Makiling.jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
het bootsmannetje — Notonecta_glauca1.jpg by Holger Gröschl, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
de waterschorpioen — Nepa_cinerea01.jpg by Jeffdelonge, CC BY-SA 3.0
de staafwants — Water_stick_insect_(Ranatra_linearis).jpg by Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0
de duikerwants — Hesperocorixa.castanea.-.lindsey.jpg by James K. Lindsey, CC BY-SA 3.0