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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Upcoming Events

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

John VanDyk, Publisher & Editor

Full name:
John VanDyk
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http://www.ppem.iastate.edu/people/john-vandyk
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Biography:

John VanDyk has maintained BugGuide since February 2006.

Please do not email images directly to John for identification; because of the volume of email he receives he is unable to reply to individual requests for identification.

Rather, upload the image(s) on the ID Request page.

If you wish to use an image from BugGuide, please understand that individuals uploading images to BugGuide retain the copyright to those images. Thus, you will need to contact the photographer (not John) for copyright permission. You can find the photographer's contact information by clicking on the copyright statement at the lower left of each BugGuide image.

BugGuide was begun in 2003 by Troy Bartlett. Here's a picture of John and Troy together from the 2011 BugGuide Gathering.
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