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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

Family Corydalidae - Dobsonflies and Fishflies

Dobsonflies · Fishflies · unidentified eggs, larvae, and pupae

Subfamily Corydalinae - Dobsonflies
Dobson Fly - male I think - Corydalus cornutus - male Mystery Bug - Corydalus cornutus - female What the heck is this? - Corydalus cornutus - male Big Bug - Corydalus cornutus - male Corydalus cornutus Found in suburban shopping complex parking lot (already dead, but primarily intact) - Corydalus cornutus Dobsonfly - Corydalus cornutus - male Female, Corydalus texanus? - Corydalus texanus - female

Subfamily Chauliodinae - Fishflies
Aquatic larva - Nigronia serricornis Fishfly larva? - Nigronia fasciata fishfly - Chauliodes pectinicornis Neuropteran? - Chauliodes rastricornis Crestline Critter - Neohermes filicornis Dobsonfly - Chauliodes pectinicornis Nigronia serricornis Nigronia fasciata? - Nigronia fasciata

unidentified eggs, larvae, and pupae
Dobsonfly larva Chauliodinae? Hellgrammite - Dobson fly larvae Michigan Bugger Michigan Bugger Larva - Fishfly? Larva - Fishfly? Eastern Dobsonfly??


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