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

Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps

Cockroach Wasps · Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies · Thread-waisted Wasps

Family Ampulicidae - Cockroach Wasps
Wasp? - Ampulex ferruginea wasp - Ampulex canaliculata Ant? - Ampulex ferruginea Unknown Hymenopteran - Ampulex canaliculata Ampulex species - Ampulex canaliculata Ampulex species - Ampulex canaliculata Ant, wasp or termite? - Ampulex ferruginea Wasp - Dolichurus greenei

Family Crabronidae - Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies
Didineis nodosa??? - Didineis nodosa - female Wasp - Trypoxylon Eastern cicada killer (Sphecius speciosus) - Sphecius speciosus - male Wasp species? - Bembix americana Crabronidae- Sand Wasp ID please - Bembix Beewasp811 - Tachytes Alysson Hymenoptera - Philanthus

Family Sphecidae - Thread-waisted Wasps
Wasp - Isodontia elegans - male Grass-carrying Wasps Isodontia philadelphica - Isodontia philadelphica Wasp on Canadian Thistle - Sphex ichneumoneus Grass-carrying Wasp? - Isodontia elegans Sphex lucae? - Sphex lucae - male Sphex nudus? - Sphex nudus Hymenoptera - Prionyx - female Sphex pensylvanicus? - Sphex pensylvanicus


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