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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Possible 2026 BugGuide gathering in Texas?

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

Order Blattodea - Cockroaches and Termites

Blaberoidea · Blattoidea · Corydioidea · Unidentified oothecae

Superfamily Blaberoidea
Parcoblatta or something? - Parcoblatta pennsylvanica cockroach - Parcoblatta americana Parcoblatta fulvescens - male nymph - Pycnoscelus surinamensis Supella longipalpa - female Lightning bug with tails - Pseudomops septentrionalis Parcoblatta? - Parcoblatta virginica - female Parcoblatta - female

Superfamily Blattoidea
7005460 Termite - Amitermes parvulus Western Drywood Termite (Incisitermes minor) reproductive stage - Incisitermes minor Unknown Bug - Periplaneta australasiae Small Cockroach - Periplaneta australasiae Periplaneta americana? - Periplaneta americana Termite - Reticulitermes 3036301 roach - Periplaneta Light Western Drywood Termite - Marginitermes hubbardi

Superfamily Corydioidea
Desert cockroach Arenivaga sp male 2 - Arenivaga erratica - male Order Blatteria - Arenivaga tonkawa Desert Roach with 4 spots - Arenivaga - male Male, Arenivaga genitalis? - Arenivaga - male Small roach - Compsodes schwarzi Arenivaga tenax? - Arenivaga tenax - male Cockroaches - Arenivaga Ectobiidae - Arenivaga

Unidentified oothecae
Please help- German or Wood Roach Oothecae? Please help- German or Wood Roach Oothecae? Please help- German or Wood Roach Oothecae? Cockroach ootheca Cockroach ootheca Cockroach ootheca


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