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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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

Bob Kipfer, Contributor

Full name:
Bob Kipfer
E-mail address:
rkipfer_at_gmail.com
Homepage:
Springfieldmn.blogspot.com
Contact:
Contact us at the email box on our blog at Springfieldmn.blogspot.com
City, state, country:
Springfield, MO
Biography:

My wife and I have retired from medical careers to full time naturalists activities. Our home base is the Springfield Plateau Chapter of Missouri Master Naturalists. We work with a number of wonderful conservation organizations and like-minded individuals. Much of our time is spent working on our creek valley and woodland, managing it for habitat, glade restoration, fighting invasive species and photographing any previously unidentified species, animal or plant.

We are particularly interested in educating young naturalists, both formally in schools and through other organizations. We use Bugguide extensively including the Creative Commons photographs for our Master Naturalist blog at Springfieldmn.blogspot.com.

We are indebted to all the contributor and editors of Bugguide and especially those who share their knowledge and photograph through Creative Commons. Our blog is highly dependent upon those high quality photographs by "real" photographers to document our findings.
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