Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

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Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

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National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

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Little spider Little spider Egira cognata Egira Hiemalis Aseptis Characta? Cat Faced Orb Weaver Araneidae Araneidae Zorocrates unicolor - female Zorocrates unicolor - female Zorocrates unicolor - female Catastia actualis? Monopis Unk. Limnephilidae Unk. Limnephilidae Stenoptilia coloradensis? insect Stenoptilia coloradensis? Unknown camel cricket Unknown camel cricket Unknown camel cricket Unknown spider in Alabama Unknown spider in Alabama Arizona Moth for ID

 
 
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