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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

Infraorder Gryllidea - Crickets

Mole Crickets · True Crickets · Scaly Crickets · Ant Crickets · Trigonidiidae

Family Gryllotalpidae - Mole Crickets
Mole cricket?? - Neoscapteriscus borellii - female Mole Cricket - Neoscapteriscus vicinus - male Unknown bug possibly in Nymph stage?? - Neocurtilla hexadactyla - female Unknown Clawed Insect - Neocurtilla hexadactyla What is this? - Neoscapteriscus vicinus Neoscapteriscus vicinus - female MyrtleBeachBug - Neoscapteriscus vicinus Florida Mole Cricket - Neoscapteriscus borellii

Family Gryllidae - True Crickets
two-spotted tree cricket - Neoxabea bipunctata - female Insect - Orocharis saltator - male cricket - Oecanthus nigricornis Tree Cricket - Oecanthus laricis - male some kind of bush cricket? - Orocharis saltator - female Cricket - Gryllus Ohio Orthoptera? - Neoxabea bipunctata - female Restless bush cricket - Hapithus agitator - male

Family Mogoplistidae - Scaly Crickets
Scaly Cricket - Cycloptilum - female mystery orthopteran = Cycloptilum - Cycloptilum trigonipalpum - male - female Cricket sp. - Cycloptilum - female Cricket - Cycloptilum - female Cycloptilum - female Cycloptilum - Cycloptilum slossoni - female Cycloptilum - female Hoplosphyrum boreale - female

Family Myrmecophilidae - Ant Crickets
tiny cricket - Myrmecophilus oregonensis Ant cricket - Myrmecophilus Myrmecophilus pergandei - Myrmecophilus pergandei M. pergandei - Myrmecophilus pergandei Ant Cricket? - Myrmecophilus pergandei - female Myrmecophilus pergandei - female Myrmecophilus pergandei - female Myrmecophilus pergandei

Family Trigonidiidae
Cricket - Cyrtoxipha columbiana - female Green... Cricket? - Cyrtoxipha columbiana - female Red-headed Bush Cricket (Phyllopalpus pulchellus) - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Phyllopalpus? - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - male Light brown cricket - Falcicula hebardi - male tiny hopper - Phyllopalpus pulchellus - female Anaxipha exigua - female On the Bin - Phyllopalpus pulchellus


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