Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

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Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

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Upcoming Events

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

Order Siphonaptera - Fleas

Pulicidae · Ceratophyllidae · Hectopsyllidae · Hystrichopsyllidae · Leptopsyllidae

Family Pulicidae
Cat flea? - Ctenocephalides felis Cat flea? - Ctenocephalides felis Sticktight Flea, Echidnophaga gallinacea - Echidnophaga gallinacea - female Rabbit Flea - Cediopsylla simplex - Cediopsylla simplex Pulex irritans Pulex irritans Flea - Ctenocephalides Pulex irritans - Pulex irritans - male

Family Ceratophyllidae
NEW FAMILY Ceratophyllidae NEW FAMILY Ceratophyllidae NEW FAMILY Ceratophyllidae Not a Cat Flea squirrel flea - Orchopeas howardi Orchopeas howardi Oropsylla hirsuta Nosopsyllus fasciatus

Family Hectopsyllidae
Bat Parasite - Hectopsylla pulex Bat Parasite - Hectopsylla pulex SBBG-SCL-TIC_000154 - Hectopsylla

Family Hystrichopsyllidae
Hystrichopsylla dippiei - female Hystrichopsylla dippiei - female Hystrichopsylla dippiei - female Hystrichopsylla dippiei - female Hystrichopsylla dippiei - female Epitedia wenmanni Huge flea from Alberta - Hystrichopsylla occidentalis - female Huge flea from Alberta - Hystrichopsylla occidentalis - female

Family Leptopsyllidae
Hystrichopsylla schefferi - Dolichopsyllus stylosus Hystrichopsylla schefferi - Dolichopsyllus stylosus Hystrichopsylla schefferi - Dolichopsyllus stylosus Hystrichopsylla schefferi - Dolichopsyllus stylosus


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