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

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods


Gradual metamorphosis of a grasshopper

Example future logo Nearctic ecozone

Neotropic ecozone

Ommatidium of Machilis

Fly proboscis

Pulvilli

Asclepias pollinia on Danaus plexippus

Beetle Thorax Beetle Thorax Beetle Thorax

Palearctic ecozone

Phenology of Andrena and Megachile Phenology of two bee genera and a fly Phenology of two bee genera

Scopa - female

Siphunculi or cornicles

Tracheal system of insects--diagram

Insect wing diagram--regions

Insect wing venation Wing venation of a fly, Anisopus

Isopod or Bristletail? ~44,000 year old beetle elytron from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, southern California. Likely extant and nearby occurring. ~44,000 year old beetle pronotum from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, southern California. Likely extant and nearby occurring.