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	Ace Lacewing Occupation: Bug Detective Insect: green lacewing Scientific name: Chrysoperla rufilabris Motto: "Bad bugs are my business." Favorite food: Aphids ( stir fried, a la mode, lo mein, cajun style, fricasseed, boiled, barbecued, etc.) Motham City's favorite bug detective. Where there's a crime, Ace is on the case.

	Dr. Xerces Blue Occupation: Doctor ( Not the kind of doctor who could take your tonsils out .The kind of doctor who studies bugs...dead bugs.) Insect: butterfly Scientific name: Glaucopsyche xerces Favorite food: Deerweed nectar Xerces has known Ace ever since she was a little caterpillar. Not only is she ravishingly beautiful but she has the brains too. She has also saved Ace from being squashed more than once.
	Queenie Bee Occupation: Owner, representative and spokesbee for The Hive Rise Honey Company Insect: honey bee Scientific name: Apis Mellifera Favorite food: You guessed it...honey! One of Motham City's most popular and loved residents. Queenie's Hive Rise Honey Company makes the best honey in town. She loves being in the limelight promoting Hive Rise Honey and enjoys seeing herself on billboards and posters all over town. Click below to learn more about honeybees.

	Princess Pollen Occupation: Aspiring actress Insect: honey bee Scientific name: Apis Mellifera Favorite food: Royal jelly and honey Queenie Bee's younger sister wants it all. She dances, she sings and she dreams of being an actress. Those who have seen her "Pollen Dance" call it " simply hypnotic." How far will she go to make her dreams come true?
	Zito the Mosquito Occupation: Motham Police Sergeant Insect: mosquito Scientific name: Culex nigripalpus Favorite food: nectar, donuts Ace's friend and sidekick. They've known each other ever since they were pupae at the Larva Country Day School. Zito is one of Motham City's finest cops and is the first one to arrive at a crime scene usually holding a donut. Zito wants everyone to know that it's the female, not the male, mosquito that sucks blood.
	Twig Occupation: Mime ( loves to immitate tree branches) Insect: walkingstick Scientific name: Diapheromera femorata Favorite food: cherry leaves In addition to being a mime, Twig also enjoys slow walks on the beach and jogs (very slowly) around town. Twig sometimes finds himself in the middle of all the action at a crime scene. He hopes to finish the Motham Marathon this year before everyone begins it next year.
	The Roach Brothers Occupation: Professional pests and suspects Insect: cockroach Scientific name: *Periplaneta americana* Favorite food: everything The roaches seem to be everywhere in Motham City and have a habit of scattering whenever lights are turned on. Because they are always scurrying around town and running from something they are usually the first to be brought in for questioning by the Motham Police.
	Maggot Occupation: Unknown Insect: Seedcorn maggot Scientific name: *Delia platura* Favorite food: Corn Maggots are generally found in large groups, but this one likes to work alone. Most of the time you can see him squirming around Motham City minding his own business. It's not really known if he has eyes.
	Smooch Occupation: You don't want to know Insect: assassin bug Scientific name: *Zelus renardii* Favorite food: bug juice Nobody in Motham City wants anything to do with the assassin bugs let alone get near their kisser. These bugs sometimes are known as "kissing bugs" and they are poisonous to humans too. After injecting their prey with poison the assasin bugs long straw like rostrum allows them to suck out the liquified tissues in much the same way we use a straw to drink a milkshake! Yum!

	Katie Occupation: Singer songwriter Insect: katydid Scientific name: *Panacanthus cuspidatus* Favorite food: fruit and flowers There's nothing like the sound of katydids singing on a hot humid night in Motham City. However sometimes Katy overdoes her singing and brings a lot of attention to herself. When asked if it was her who was singing, Katy replies "Katydid, Katydid" and sometimes"Katydidn't, Katydidn't." So did the Katydid do it? Who knows?
	Sunny and Sonny Occupation: street lamps Insect: glow worms Scientific name: *Coleoptera Phengodidae* Favorite food: Snails and slugs If it wasn't for glow worms like Sunny and Sonny Motham City would be a dark and dreary place . These glowing beetles give the city a luminescence all it's own. When daylight comes you'll see them on every street corner taking a nap until the sun goes down and Motham City comes alive. See if you could find the burnt out glow worm about to be replaced on the title page of Ace Lacewing Bug Detective.

	Jack and Stretch Insect: giraffe beetle Scientific name: *Trachelophorus giraffa* Favorite food: plants Jack and Stretch make their home in the Motham City Beetle Zoo with all the other beetles. They are actually weevils which are not only the largest family of beetles, but also the largest family in the entire animal kingdom! In the Beetle Zoo you'll also find, rhinoceras beetles, elephant beetles, kangaroo beetles, skunks beetles, zebra beetles and tiger beetles.
	Hover Occupation: Police helicopter Insect: Damselfly Scientific name: *Odonata Zygoptera* Favorite food: gnats Hover is a Motham Police Department helicopter. He's called onto the crimes scene when police need the area illuminated and suspects are fleeing. Hover will fly above them with the spotlight (usually a glow worm) until the police could nab them.
	Hops Occupation: Street musician Insect: Green fool Grasshopper Scientific name: *Acrolophitus hirtipes* Favorite food: alfalfa Some grasshoppers rub their wings together to create music, others snap their wings together while flying, and others just rub their hind legs across their front wings. But Hops plays saxophone. At night you'll usually see him in Motham City or down by Cricket Creek under the streetlights wailing away. Ace loves when Hops plays below the window to his office.
	Bug Family Insect: Parent bug Scientific name: *Elasmucha grisea* Favorite food: sap The Parent bug is one of the rarities of the insect world in that it cares for it's young. The female can sometimes be seen with it's young walking the streets of Motham City. At the slightest alarm, the mother herds her brood to shelter while staying exposed herself to act as decoy to any would-be predators.
	Dung and Dunger Occupation: Sanitation engineers (trash bugs) Insect: Dung Beetles Scientific name: Scarabaeus sacer Favorite food: Dung. They think it's delicious. It's the job of Dung and Dunger to keep the streets of Motham City clean and tidy. Late at night you'll see them rolling their dung ball through the streets picking up dung and trash other bugs have left behind. Dunger has been known to say," It's a good job with good pay and all you could eat. I love my job!"
	Drago Occupation: Security Guard Insect: Praying Mantis Scientific name: Tenodera Sinensis. Favorite food: butterflies, bees, beetles, frogs, spiders, mice, lizards, and small birds. What better insect to have as a security guard than a praying mantis. It's a fierce hunter, they have very good eyesight and they are very quick. Al the drone certainly knows their value because he uses them to guard Drone Honeyworks. What preys on a praying mantis? Bats. Most kinds of mantid have a hollow space inside their bodies, which helps them hear the high-pitched sounds that bats, one of their main predators, make.
	Tiny Insect: Tiger beetle Scientific name: Coleoptera Cicindelidae Favorite food: Sand fleas and gnats Just like the giraffe beetles, Jack and Stretch, Tiny makes his home in the Beetle Zoo. Tiger Beetles, by nature, ambush and consume other insects and small creatures. However Tiny has been so well fed at the Beetle Zoo that he hardly knows how to ambush or hunt for himself. If he gets out of his cage and escapes from the zoo he has been found cuddling with lacewings who are too scared to move.
	Aphids Insect: aphid Scientific name: Aphis gossypii Favorite food: plants This is Ace's favorite food. He's loved them ever since he was a little larva and that's why Ace has his office right above Cafe Aphid. Ace will accept being paid for solving a crime with aphids.