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John VanDyk, Contributing Editor
Full name:
John VanDyk
City, state, country:
IA
Biography:

John VanDyk has maintained BugGuide since February 2006.

Please do not email images directly to John for identification; because of the volume of email he receives he is unable to reply to individual requests for identification.

Rather, upload the image(s) on the ID Request page.

If you wish to use an image from BugGuide, please understand that individuals uploading images to BugGuide retain the copyright to those images. Thus, you will need to contact the photographer (not John) for copyright permission. You can find the photographer's contact information by clicking on the copyright statement at the lower left of each BugGuide image.

BugGuide was begun in 2003 by Troy Bartlett. Here's a picture of John and Troy together at the 2011 BugGuide Gathering.