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          Source: 1 Aquarel made by Else Bostelmann for National Geographic 1944. The print is expanded and corrected . 

The fire bug is a brightly red colored   1  forest bug or red-legged shield bug or Pentatoma rufipes 2   Italian striped bug or minstrel bug or Graphosoma lineatum 3 assassin bug or Rhinocoris iracundus 4 syromaster marginatus 5 rape bug, the crucifer shield bug, the cabbage bug or the brassica bug or .  6 Firebug or Pyrrhocoris apterus  7European Tortoise Bug or Eurygaster maura 8 Black Garden Ant or Lasius niger and green aphids or Aphidoidea 12 Chorosoma schillingi  9

black cockroach      Leitfaden der Zoologie für höhere Lehranstalten. 1. Teil Wirbeltiere  Marvels of Insect Life, by E. Step, (Volumes I & II), 1915, McBride, Nast & Co

the red-banded sand wasp The sandwesp is a common wasp in North-Europe. They live solitary, and have a striking, easy to recognize appearance: a orange band around a very long  “waist” of two segments. These wasps are famous for there beheavior (brood parasitism and mass provision) and are remarkable for there good memory. Mass provisioning The

  European green woodpecker This is an easy to recognize European bird : it is mostly green colored with  a red crown and nape. yellow-green bird is the largest woodpecker The belly is light yellow. Green woodpeckers are often found in pairs or family groups. bird song or call The call of the green woodpecker  is more often heard than seen, betraying

Bougainvillea   Bougainvillea are popular ornamental plants in most areas with warm climates. are evergreen where rainfall occurs all year, or deciduous if there is a dry season. Bougainvillea are relatively pest-free plants, but they may suffer from worms, snails and aphids. The larvae of some Lepidoptera species also use them as food plants, for example the giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia).Although it is frost-sensitive  Its high salt tolerance makes

European green woodpecker This is an easy to recognize European bird : it is mostly green colored with  a red crown and nape. The belly is light yellow.   European green woodpecker feeds on ants The European green woodpecker feeds on  ants of the genera Lasius and Formica.  It also eats other insects, frogs ands lizards. They  also drills for insects in  softwood