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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 Pentatomoidea

 
 
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Shield Bugs · Burrowing Bugs · Stink Bugs · Plataspidae · Shield-backed Bugs

Family Acanthosomatidae - Shield Bugs
shield bug - Elasmucha lateralis Red-Cross Shield Bug Nymph - Elasmostethus cruciatus Red-Cross Shield Bug - Elasmostethus cruciatus Elasmostethus cruciatus - male - female Light green beetle or bug in California - Elasmostethus cruciatus Pentatomidae - Elasmucha lateralis Pentatomid - Elasmucha lateralis Bugs nymphs - Elasmostethus cruciatus

Family Cydnidae - Burrowing Bugs
A very big Burrowing Bug - Dallasiellus californicus burrowing bug - Microporus Cyrtomenus ciliatus Burrowing Bug - Amnestus pusillus ., - Sehirus cinctus Pangaeus bilineatus (?) - Dallasiellus californicus

Family Pentatomidae - Stink Bugs
funny shaped head on this guy - Brochymena quadripustulata S.Bug-6 - Chlorochroa ligata Banasa calva 1205C01 - Oebalus pugnax Loxa species - Loxa pentatomid 5 - Podisus maculiventris Brochymena cariosa Stål - Brochymena cariosa Darmistus subvittatus ? - Mecidea minor

Family Plataspidae
Globular Stink Bug Nymph - Megacopta cribraria Bean Plataspid - Megacopta cribraria Small Bug - Megacopta cribraria Shiny Black Bug - Brachyplatys subaeneus Megacopta cribraria Brachyplatys subaeneus Kudzu Bug - Dorsal - Megacopta cribraria Kudzu Bug - Dorsal - Megacopta cribraria

Family Scutelleridae - Shield-backed Bugs
Homaemus proteus Stål - Homaemus proteus Scutelleridae - Pachycoris klugii beetle - Acantholomidea porosa Some kind of stink bug? - Diolcus chrysorrhoeus shield-backed bug??? - Orsilochides guttata Augocoris illustris (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae) - Augocoris illustris scutellerid - Homaemus parvulus shield-backed bug - Eurygaster amerinda

 
 
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