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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

Superfamily Lygaeoidea

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods

Subphylum Hexapoda - Hexapods

Class Insecta - Insects

Order Hemiptera - True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies

Suborder Heteroptera - True Bugs

Infraorder Pentatomomorpha

Superfamily Lygaeoidea

Family Artheneidae
Family Berytidae - Stilt Bugs
Family Blissidae
Family Cymidae
Family Geocoridae - Big-eyed Bugs
Family Heterogastridae
Family Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs
Family Ninidae
Family Oxycarenidae
Family Pachygronthidae
Family Piesmatidae - Ash-gray Leaf Bugs
Family Rhyparochromidae - Dirt-colored Seed Bugs

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