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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

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


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John Schneider, Contributing Editor
Contact:
jbsho(removethis)uston (at) sbcgl(removethistoo)obal.net
City, state, country:
Houston, Texas
Biography:

Observing and photographing insects since 2007. Bugguide contributor since 2008. Thank you to everyone who IDs my images.

I generally crop images to "just the bug," except for moths, which I crop square in case they are used at Moth Photographers Group.

All contributions
"Life cycles" (including partial ones and host/parasitoid series)
First images for a taxon on BG (BG1)
First larva/nymph images on BG (BGimm1)
Texas state records (putative) (TX1)
Contribs from the 2024 BG Gathering in Idaho

All contributions of:
Auchenorrhyncha (leafhoppers, planthoppers, and treehoppers)
Miridae (plant bugs)
Parasitoid wasps
Diptera (flies)
Hymenoptera (ants, wasps, and bees)
Moths
Coleoptera (beetles)
Psocodea (barklice)
Thysanoptera (thrips)
Butterflies
Heteroptera (true bugs)
Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions, and allies)
Trichoptera (caddisflies)
Sternorrhyncha (aphids, whiteflies, and other plant-parasitic hemipterans)
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)
Blattodea (cockroaches)