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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

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

 
 
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Chelicerates · Crustaceans · Hexapods · Myriapods · Unidentified Tracks, Sign, and Other Mysteries

Subphylum Chelicerata - Chelicerates
Black and Yellow Argiope - Argiope aurantia - female Windscorpion - Eremocosta Scorpion - Uroctonites montereus Ixodes scapularis Say - Ixodes scapularis - female Atlantic Horseshoe Crab - Limulus polyphemus Sea Spider - Pycnogonum stearnsi Trombidium

Subphylum Crustacea - Crustaceans
Longtail Tadpole Shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) - Triops longicaudatus European Sowbug - Oniscus asellus Mexiweckelia hardeni Holsinger - Mexiweckelia hardeni Mangrove tree crab? - Aratus pisonii Sapphirina - male Northern crayfish - Faxonius virilis Nonbug (Order Cladocera?) - Simocephalus Pregnant tanaid: Zeuxo sp.? - Synaptotanais notabilis - female

Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods
Monarch - Danaus plexippus - male Uncommon ochodaeid - Codocera gnatho - male BG2278 E0187 - Cylindromyia Wood Cockroach - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica shore bug - Pentacora ligata springtail - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus Proturan found under bark of small branch. Diplura

Subphylum Myriapoda - Myriapods
millipede with eggs - Narceus americanus-annularis-complex - female Euryurus leachii Millipedes - Brachycybe lecontii Millipedes - Polyxenus Scutigera coleoptrata Centipede - Geophilus vittatus Symphylan + Eggs Pauropod

Unidentified Tracks, Sign, and Other Mysteries
worm Gall of some type? Trichoptera St. Andrews leaf tier on Solidago canadensis SA1871 2020 3.1 Jordan Lake Pea Ridge Road leaf miner on Zizaniopsis millacea D3256 2021 1 I need help Unknown larva from gall Insect signs on dried heads of wild bergamot ID Request

 
 
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