Top 20 Most Common Insects in Bhubaneshwar

The wingspan is about 2 cm. Adults are dark brown with some translucent white patches on each wing.

The male has a reddish-brown face, with eyes that are crimson above and brown on the sides. The thorax is red with a fine, purple pruinescence. The abdomen, the base of which is swollen, is crimson with a violet tinge. The wings are transparent with crimson venation and the base has a broad amber patch. The wing spots are a dark reddish-brown and the legs are black. The female has an olivaceous or bright reddish-brown face with eyes that are purplish-brown above and grey below. The thorax is olivaceous with brown median and black lateral stripes. The abdomen is reddish-brown with median and lateral black markings. The black markings are confluent at the end of each segment and enclose a reddish-brown spot. The wings are transparent with brown tips. The venation is bright yellow to brown and basal amber markings are pale. The wing spots are a dark brown and the lags are dark grey with narrow yellow stripes.

The wingspan is 74–90 mm in male and 72–104 mm in female. Male has minutely fasciculate antennae. Male with an erectile tuft of long hair from femur-tibial joint of forelegs. Tibia and hind tarsi not fringed with long hair, nor the hindwings clothed with long woolly hair on ventral side. The wings are grey suffused with slight fuscous brown. The forewings have the stigma usually reduced to spots or to two spots on discocellulars. The antemedial line is excurved below the costa then oblique to the inner margin. There is a double postmedial line, angled below the costa. The postmedial line is crenulate. The hindwings are fuscous brown with antemedial oblique lines. The medial and submarginal lines are crenulate and the inner margin is crimson. The darkest form is vespertilio which has the male dark brown; the costal and outer areas of forewing suffused with grey and olive; the stigma most developed; female much paler and greyer. The adult has been recorded as fruit-piercer.

Eastern honey bees communicate to one another about good sources of nectar and pollen through the "waggle dance". A bee will perform this descriptive dance to other bees, after which they can interpret the dance and find their way to the food source. When they need to defend their nest from a wasp, they will surround the wasp and vibrate their muscles to generate heat, eventually killing the wasp via "heat balling".

Telmatoscopus albipunctata is also known as the "mothfly" or "filter fly" due to the small hairs on their wings similar to a moth. The larvae live in mud, decomposing plant matter, and water, and the adults also like to live in dark, moist areas. They are commonly found in human residential areas in drains or sewers.

The lime swallowtail (Papilio demoleus) has a beautiful black and white pattern, but it's considered a major pest to citrus trees. It feeds on nearly any type of citrus, including oranges and limes. This butterfly's small, green larvae are capable of defoliating an entire nursery grove. They are truly trouble makers in the citrus orchard.

Male. Upperside dark violet-purple with very little gloss, the colour obscuring the marginal black borders. Forewing, costa and outer margin with a moderately broad blackish band, generally broadest on the latter. Hindwing with the costal band broad, the outer marginal band narrow, in most specimens a mere line; anal lobe marked with dull red. Cilia black, tail stout, with a black cilia. Underside rufous-brown. Forewing with a black line from the costa near the apex to the hinder margin beyond the middle, followed by a post-discal series of indistinct disconnected lunular black marks, not always visible, and sometimes indications of a sub-marginal series. Hindwing with a medial outwardly curved black line and an indistinct outwardly curved discal series of black dots marked with white points, both in continuation of the two lines of the forewing, and a series of sub-marginal similar black dots, the ground colour of the wing varying in tone in different examples. Female. Upperside very dull violet, sometimes almost violet-brown. Forewing with broad costal and outer marginal blackish-brown borders. Hindwing generally uniform dull violet-brown, without any borders, anal lobe as in the male. Underside varying in shade of colour from ochreous-grey to violet-brown, markings as in the male, but some of the darker-coloured examples have a band of suffused whitish marks in connection with the discal line. Antennae black, with an orange tip; head and body above and below concolorous with the wings.

The giant honey bee (Apis dorsata) is incredibly defensive of their territory. This may be related to humans' honey hunting, where honey is stolen from wild bees. Their nests are built from high, overhanging locations. Much like humans, they are unlikely to build onto an old building due to safety issues. Their nests need to be sturdy, as a colony can reach up to 100 thousand workers.