Others
Leptoglossus phyllopus
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More about Other Pollinators
Many other insects occasionally visit flowers. They may not be gathering pollen or helping plants reproduce in any way, but we use “pollinator” here to simply mean an animal that is found on, or near, a flower. It can be helpful to simply know it's not a bee, beetle, butterfly, or wasp so you can then classify them as an "other". Some of the other familiar insects that are sometimes found on flowers are: preying mantises, earwigs, stick insects, lacewings, and cockroaches.
True bugs are very abundant and often found on flowers. They can have a shell-like appearance, similar to beetles, but they don't make a T-shape like beetles, more like a Y-shape.
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Grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids have large and muscular hind legs for jumping. Sometimes they feed on flowers.
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Ants are typically wingless, are very "leggy", and have elbowed antennae
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Dragonflies and damselflies have 2 sets of long veiny wings are are powerful fliers
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