Nectar Feeders
465 species with this diet
Abbott's Sphinx Moth
Sphecodina abbottii
A unique hawk moth with scalloped brown wings and a yellow and brown banded body resembling a large hornet. Its flight i...
Achemon Sphinx Moth
Eumorpha achemon
A robust hawk moth with pink and tan-brown forewings and bright pink hindwings. It is closely related to the Pandorus sp...
Acraea Butterfly
Acraea acerata
A medium-sized butterfly with translucent orange wings and dark veins, giving it a delicate, window-like appearance. It ...
Adonis Blue
Lysandra bellargus
Males are an intense sky-blue with a chequered fringe; females are brown. Restricted to chalk and limestone grasslands....
African Bulldog Ant
Myrmecia regularis
A large aggressive ant with excellent vision and powerful mandibles. It can leap and deliver a painful sting when threat...
African Commodore Butterfly
Precis pelarga
A medium-sized butterfly with warm orange-brown wings and subtle eyespots near the wing margins. It is common in open bu...
African Fig Wasp
Ceratosolen capensis
A tiny wasp with an obligate mutualistic relationship with African fig trees. Females enter figs through a narrow openin...
African Giant Swallowtail
Papilio antimachus
The largest butterfly in Africa with a wingspan of up to 250 mm. It flies at great heights in the canopy and is rarely s...
African Grass Blue
Zizeeria knysna
Tiny blue butterfly with spotted gray-brown undersides. One of the smallest butterflies in Africa....
African Honey Bee
Apis mellifera scutellata
The African subspecies of the western honey bee, known for its defensive behavior and high productivity. It is slightly ...
African Migrant Butterfly
Catopsilia florella
A large white to greenish-yellow pierid butterfly that undertakes massive migrations across Africa. Males are white whil...
African Mud Dauber
Sceliphron spirifex
A slender black and yellow wasp with an extremely narrow petiole waist. It constructs mud nests on walls and ceilings, p...
African Net-winged Beetle
Lycus trabeatus
A brightly orange-red beetle with distinctive net-like wing venation and broad expanded elytra. It is toxic and serves a...
African Sand Wasp
Bembix capensis
A fast-flying sand wasp with black and yellow banding that nests in sandy ground. Females provision nests with captured ...
African Sapphire
Iolaus iulus
Brilliant sapphire-blue upper wings with a dark margin and twin tails on hindwings. Found in African woodlands and fores...
African Scoliid Wasp
Megascolia vittata
A very large black and yellow-banded scoliid wasp from sub-Saharan Africa. It parasitizes goliath beetle and other large...
African Stingless Bee
Meliponula bocandei
A small dark stingless bee that nests in tree hollows and produces a prized thin honey. Colonies can number several thou...
African Velvet Ant
Dasylabris maura
A large black and white velvet ant found across North Africa and the Mediterranean. Females are densely covered in silve...
Alpine Blue
Albulina orbitulus
A small, silvery-blue butterfly found only in high alpine grasslands. Males have pale blue uppersides while females are ...
Alpine Bumblebee
Bombus alpinus
A large bumblebee with distinctive orange-red tail and dark body covered in dense fur. It is found at high elevations in...
Alpine Grizzled Skipper
Pyrgus andromedae
A small, dark skipper butterfly with white checkered markings. It flies low over alpine turf in quick, darting flights....
Alpine Hover Fly
Sericomyia silentis
A large hover fly with bold yellow-and-black banding mimicking a wasp. It visits alpine flowers for nectar in mountain m...
Alpine Soldierfly
Oxycera morrisii
A small, brightly patterned soldierfly found near mountain springs and seepages. Its larvae develop in calcareous spring...
Amazon Sphinx Moth
Cocytius antaeus
One of the largest sphinx moths in the Americas with a long, narrow body and pointed wings. Its tongue can exceed 30 cen...
Amazonian Uranid Moth
Urania leilus
A day-flying moth with iridescent green, blue, and black bands on swallowtail-shaped wings. It undertakes massive season...
American Bumble Bee
Bombus pensylvanicus
A large bumble bee with a yellow thorax, black band between the wings, and a mostly yellow abdomen. Once one of the most...
Angola White Lady Swallowtail
Graphium angolanus
A large swallowtail with black-and-white banded wings and a distinctive tail on each hindwing. It is a strong flier foun...
Anthricinan Yellow-Faced Bee
Hylaeus anthracinus
One of seven Hawaiian yellow-faced bees federally listed as endangered. These small native bees are critical pollinators...
Antlion
Myrmeleon formicarius
Larvae build conical sand pit traps to catch ants and other small insects. The larva waits buried at the bottom and flic...
Apache Paper Wasp
Polistes apachus
A large paper wasp of the American Southwest with yellow and reddish-brown coloring. It constructs open paper comb nests...
Arctic Bumblebee
Bombus polaris
A large, densely furred bumblebee with yellow and black banding adapted to extreme cold. Its thick pile of hair provides...
Arctic Clouded Yellow
Colias tyche
A medium-sized butterfly with pale greenish-yellow wings and prominent dark borders. The underside has a silvery-white d...
Arctic Fritillary
Boloria chariclea
A small, orange-brown fritillary butterfly of arctic and alpine tundra. Its underside has distinctive silvery-white mark...
Arctic Ringlet
Erebia disa
A dark brown ringlet butterfly of arctic and alpine bogs. It flies low over sedge tussocks in a slow, bobbing flight pat...
Arctic Sulphur
Colias nastes
A pale greenish-white butterfly with dusky wing margins and small dark discal spots. Its subdued coloration helps it abs...
Ashy Mining Bee
Andrena cineraria
A striking black and grey solitary bee with silvery-white hair bands on its thorax. It nests in compacted soil and is on...
Asian Mud Dauber
Sceliphron curvatum
A dark-bodied mud dauber originally from Central Asia now invasive across Europe. It builds mud nests inside buildings a...
Australian Flower Wasp
Campsomeris tasmaniensis
A hairy black and orange scoliid wasp endemic to Australia. Males patrol flowers while females dig into soil to parasiti...
Australian Grapevine Moth
Phalaenoides glycinae
A day-flying moth closely related to Joseph's Coat Moth, with dark wings bearing white and orange spots. It is a common ...
Australian Large-headed Bee
Stenotritus greavesi
A robust, fast-flying bee endemic to Australia with a disproportionately large head and powerful mandibles. It belongs t...
Australian Painted Lady
Vanessa kershawi
An orange, black, and white butterfly closely related to the cosmopolitan painted lady. It undertakes seasonal migration...
Banded General Soldier Fly
Stratiomys potamida
A large, boldly marked soldier fly with a broad flat abdomen bearing yellow lateral markings. Its aquatic larvae are elo...
Banded Hairstreak
Satyrium calanus
A small dark brown butterfly with conspicuous bands of white-edged dark dashes on its hindwing underside. It has a short...
Banded Peacock Butterfly
Anartia fatima
A medium-sized butterfly with dark brown wings crossed by a broad creamy-white band and orange wing bases. It is a fast,...
Banded Swallowtail
Papilio demolion
A medium-large swallowtail with dark brown-black wings bearing a broad pale greenish-yellow band across both forewings a...
Banded Velvet Ant
Dasymutilla occidentalis africana
A wingless wasp covered in dense orange and black velvety hair. Despite the name, it is actually a solitary wasp, not an...
Bedstraw Hawk Moth
Hyles gallii
A striking hawk moth with olive-green forewings bearing a buff median band and pink hindwings. It is a migratory species...
Bee Fly
Bombylius major
A fuzzy bee mimic with a long fixed proboscis used for hovering in front of flowers to drink nectar. Despite its innocen...
Bee-fly Hawk Moth
Macroglossum bombylans
A small day-flying hawk moth that mimics a bumblebee with its furry body and buzzing flight. It visits flowers in garden...
Bhutan Glory
Bhutanitis lidderdalii
A spectacular swallowtail from the eastern Himalayas with multiple tail streamers and intricate black, white, and red wi...
Bicolored Pennant Ant
Tetraponera rufonigra
A large, slender arboreal ant with a painful sting found across tropical Asia. Workers are bicolored with an orange head...
Bicolored Trailing Ant
Monacis bispinosa
A neotropical dolichoderine ant with two prominent spines on its thorax. It forms long foraging trails on tree trunks an...
Birdwing Butterfly
Ornithoptera alexandrae
The largest butterfly in the world with a wingspan up to 31 cm. Found only in a small area of Papua New Guinea. Females ...
Bitter Blue
Theclinesthes miskini
Small blue and brown butterfly with spotted gray undersides. Commonly found around its host plant in Australian coastal ...
Black and Gold Velvet Ant
Dasymutilla nigripes
A medium-sized velvet ant with golden-orange hair on the thorax contrasting with its black legs and abdomen. It is found...
Black and Yellow Longhorn
Rutpela maculata
A slender wasp-mimicking beetle with yellow elytra marked with black bands and spots. It is a common flower visitor in E...
Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Black butterfly with yellow spot bands and blue hindwing patches; orange and black eyespot on each hindwing. Common in g...
Blackburn's Sphinx Moth
Manduca blackburni
The largest native insect in Hawaii, this sphinx moth has a wingspan up to 120 mm. It was once widespread across the isl...
Blind Ringlet
Erebia pharte
A small, dark ringlet butterfly with reduced or absent eyespots. It flies in damp alpine meadows during the short mounta...
Blue Ant
Diamma bicolor
Despite its name, the Blue Ant is actually a wingless flower wasp, not an ant. Females are metallic blue-green with a po...
Blue Mason Bee
Osmia caerulescens
A small, metallic blue-black solitary bee that nests in pre-existing cavities in wood and walls. It is common in gardens...
Blue Mormon
Papilio polymnestor
A large, spectacular swallowtail butterfly with deep black wings overlaid with brilliant blue bands. It is one of the la...
Blue Orchard Bee
Osmia lignaria
A metallic dark blue solitary bee that nests in pre-existing holes in wood. It is an exceptionally efficient pollinator ...
Blue Pansy
Junonia orithya
A medium-sized butterfly with stunning bright blue hindwings bearing large eyespots and brown forewings with smaller ora...
Blue Triangle
Graphium sarpedon
A swift-flying black swallowtail with a band of translucent blue-green spots across both wings. It is common along the e...
Blue-Banded Bee
Amegilla cingulata
A striking Australian native bee with iridescent turquoise bands on its abdomen. They are important buzz pollinators of ...
Blue-winged Scoliid Wasp
Scolia dubia
A black and reddish-brown wasp with iridescent blue wings commonly seen on flowers in late summer. It parasitizes green ...
Bolas Spider Moth Mimic
Celaenia excavata
An Australian moth whose eggs are so tough they resemble seeds and can survive passage through a bird digestive tract — ...
Boreal Bumblebee
Bombus borealis
A medium-sized bumblebee with yellow bands on the thorax and a white-tipped abdomen. It nests underground in abandoned r...
Brazilian Skipper
Calpodes ethlius
A robust brown skipper butterfly with translucent white spots on the forewings. Its larvae build leaf shelters on canna ...
Brazilian Stingless Bee
Melipona quadrifasciata
A robust stingless bee with a dark body and four pale abdominal bands. It is the most culturally important stingless bee...
Brazilian Thorn Moth
Cyanopepla huillensis
A day-flying moth with brilliant metallic blue forewings and bright red or orange hindwings, warning predators of its to...
Bright-eyed Ringlet
Erebia oeme
A dark brown ringlet with prominent white-pupiled eyespots. It frequents damp, grassy slopes in subalpine and alpine zon...
Brimstone
Gonepteryx rhamni
Males are vivid sulphur-yellow; females are pale greenish-white. Leaf-shaped wings provide excellent camouflage at rest....
Bristly Tachinid Fly
Nowickia ferox
A large, heavily bristled tachinid fly with a gray-checkered pattern on the abdomen. It is conspicuously spiny and frequ...
Broad-Bordered Bee Hawk-Moth
Hemaris fuciformis
A day-flying sphinx moth with transparent wings that mimic a bumblebee. The scales on its wings fall off on its first fl...
Broad-faced Sweat Bee
Lasioglossum platycephalum
A rare and distinctive European furrow bee with an unusually broad, flattened head. It nests in sandy or gravelly soils ...
Broad-footed Colletes
Colletes halophilus
A rare coastal specialist plasterer bee that forages on sea aster in saltmarsh habitats. It is restricted to a narrow ba...
Bronze Furrow Bee
Halictus tumulorum
A small, dark metallic furrow bee with a subtle bronze sheen widespread across the Palearctic. It is primitively eusocia...
Brown Argus
Aricia agestis
A small chocolate-brown butterfly with a row of bright orange crescent-shaped spots around the wing margins. Despite its...
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Bombus terrestris
A large, familiar bumblebee with black fur, a yellow collar, a yellow abdominal band, and a distinctive buff-white tail....
Bulldog Ant
Myrmecia gulosa
A large aggressive ant with long mandibles and excellent vision found in Australia. It can jump and sting simultaneously...
Bullet Ant
Paraponera clavata
Named for its extremely painful sting, rated 4+ on the Schmidt Pain Index. Indigenous Satere-Mawe people use them in war...
Cape Honey Bee
Apis mellifera capensis
A unique honey bee subspecies where workers can lay diploid female eggs without mating. It is restricted to the winter r...
Cape Oil-collecting Bee
Rediviva neliana
A South African oil-collecting bee with extraordinarily long front legs used to extract floral oil from deep-spurred Dia...
Carolina Sphinx Moth
Manduca sexta
A large gray sphinx moth whose caterpillar, the tobacco hornworm, is a well-known pest of tomato and tobacco plants. The...
Cellophane Bee
Colletes thoracicus
A spring-flying plasterer bee native to eastern North America with dense reddish-brown thoracic hair. It lines its brood...
Central Asian Apollo
Parnassius actius
A large, high-altitude Apollo butterfly of the Pamir and Tian Shan mountains. It has a powerful gliding flight over barr...
Chimera Birdwing
Ornithoptera chimaera
A large montane birdwing butterfly found in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. It occurs at elevations between 1200 and ...
Chimney Sweeper Moth
Odezia atrata
A small, entirely sooty-black day-flying moth with white-tipped wing fringes. It flies over grasslands where pignut grow...
Chinese Peacock Swallowtail
Papilio bianor
A large swallowtail with dark wings that shimmer with brilliant blue-green iridescence. Its hindwings feature red and bl...
Chinese Windmill Butterfly
Byasa alcinous
A dark swallowtail with red-spotted hindwings that rotates its wings in a slow windmill-like pattern during flight. It i...
Chocolate Mining Bee
Andrena scotica
A medium-sized bee with warm brown fur, common across the British Isles. It visits a wide range of spring and early summ...
Cinnamon Caddis
Ceratopsyche morosa
A medium-sized net-spinning caddisfly with warm cinnamon-brown wings. Larvae build intricate silk capture nets in fast r...
Citrus Swallowtail
Papilio demodocus
A common large swallowtail with cream and black patterned wings and blue-red eyespots on the hindwings. It is widespread...
Claudina Metalmark
Mesosemia claudia
A small, dark-winged metalmark butterfly with fine silvery-blue spots along the wing margins. It rests with wings spread...
Clouded Apollo
Parnassius mnemosyne
A delicate, semi-translucent white butterfly with dark wing veins and small dark spots. It flies slowly through woodland...
Clouded Skipper
Lerema accius
A dark brown skipper with small glassy white spots on its forewings. It is one of the most common grass skippers in the ...
Cloudless Sulphur
Phoebis sennae
Large unmarked lemon-yellow butterfly; females may have faint spots. Common and conspicuous across the southern United S...
Coccygomimus Wasp
Pimpla turionellae
A cosmopolitan black ichneumonid used in biological control of pine shoot moths. Females sting and paralyze host pupae b...
Coffee Bee Hawk Moth
Cephonodes picus
A smaller clearwing hawk moth with transparent wings and a compact olive and yellow body. It is often found around coffe...
Colorful Ichneumon
Ichneumon sarcitorius
A medium-sized ichneumon with a black body, yellow scutellum, and orange-tipped abdomen. It is one of the most commonly ...
Common Blue Butterfly
Polyommatus icarus
A small butterfly where males are vivid violet-blue and females are brown with orange spots. It is the most widespread b...
Common Carder Bee
Bombus pascuorum
A fluffy ginger-brown bumblebee that builds nests on the ground surface using moss and grass. It has one of the longest ...
Common Crow Butterfly
Euploea core
Dark brown wings with rows of white marginal spots. Highly toxic due to alkaloids sequestered from its larval food plant...
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bombus impatiens
A robust fuzzy bumble bee with a black body and yellow thoracic band that is widely used as a commercial greenhouse poll...
Common Furrow Bee
Halictus rubicundus
A widespread sweat bee found across the Northern Hemisphere that displays flexible social behavior. In warmer regions th...
Common Graphium
Graphium leonidas
A striking swallowtail butterfly with black wings marked with pale blue-green translucent spots. It is a fast and powerf...
Common Green Furrow Bee
Lasioglossum malachurum
A small, primitively eusocial sweat bee in which a single queen overwinters and founds a colony with successive worker b...
Common Leopard
Phalanta phalantha
A medium-sized tawny butterfly with black spots arranged in a leopard-like pattern across the wings. It has a rapid, gli...
Common Lime Butterfly
Papilio demoleus
Black swallowtail covered in pale yellow spots and lacking hindwing tails. A major pest of citrus across Asia and recent...
Common Mime
Papilio clytia
A polymorphic swallowtail butterfly that exists in two main forms: one mimicking the toxic Common Crow and the other mim...
Common Mormon
Papilio polytes
Males are plain black with a cream band; females occur in multiple forms mimicking different toxic species. A textbook e...
Common Potter Wasp
Eumenes fraternus
A North American potter wasp that builds small globular mud cells on plant stems and twigs. The female suspends her egg ...
Common Rose Swallowtail
Pachliopta aristolochiae
A striking black and crimson swallowtail butterfly common across South and Southeast Asia. Its body contains toxins sequ...
Common Sootywing
Pholisora catullus
A very small sooty-black skipper with scattered tiny white spots on the forewings. It is a common but easily overlooked ...
Common Thick-headed Fly
Sicus ferrugineus
A distinctive orange-brown fly with a disproportionately large, inflated head and a curved abdomen. It perches conspicuo...
Common Tree Nymph
Idea stolli
A very large butterfly with translucent white wings heavily veined and spotted in black. It flies with a slow, lazy, pap...
Common Windmill
Byasa polyeuctes
A black swallowtail with red body spots and white-patched hindwings that flutter in a distinctive windmill pattern. It f...
Convolvulus Hawk-moth
Agrius convolvuli
A powerful migrant hawk-moth with a streamlined grey body and pink-banded abdomen. It possesses an extraordinarily long ...
Copper Jewel
Hypochrysops ignitus
Brilliant coppery-orange upper wings with iridescent purple-blue reflections. One of Australia's most striking lycaenid ...
Copper-tailed Cuckoo Wasp
Chrysis succincta
A medium-sized cuckoo wasp with a metallic green forebody and a warm coppery-gold abdomen. It parasitizes the nests of c...
Coppery Sweat Bee
Augochloropsis sumptuosa
A stout metallic bee with brilliant coppery-green iridescence found across South America. It is a solitary ground-nestin...
Coral Hairstreak
Satyrium titus
A tailless hairstreak butterfly with a row of bright coral-red spots along the hindwing margin. Its brown wings lack the...
Corvus Skipper
Trapezites symmomus
A robust dark skipper butterfly with orange-spotted wings found in sedge-rich wetlands. It is endemic to southeastern Au...
Cranberry Blue
Plebejus optilete
A small butterfly with violet-blue upperwings in males and dark brown in females. The hindwing underside has a diagnosti...
Crotch's Bumblebee
Bombus crotchii
A western North American bumblebee that has declined by over 90% from its historical range. Once common in California's ...
Cuckoo Wasp
Chrysis ignita
A stunning metallic jewel-toned wasp that lays eggs in other wasps nests. Can curl into an armored ball when attacked. I...
Cynthia's Fritillary
Euphydryas cynthia
A striking black-and-white checkered fritillary with orange markings. Males and females differ dramatically in coloratio...
Dainty Swallowtail
Papilio anactus
A small, elegant swallowtail butterfly that is the most widespread Papilio species in Australia. It has black wings with...
Dance Fly with Feathered Legs
Rhamphomyia sulcata
A small dance fly where females have distinctive feathered or pennate leg scales used to attract males. Females inflate ...
Dark Green Fritillary
Speyeria aglaja
A fast-flying fritillary with a powerful gliding flight over open grasslands. Its underside features large silver spots ...
Dark-edged Bee-fly
Bombylius major discolor
A subspecies of the bee-fly with slightly different wing patterning found in eastern populations....
Davies' Colletes
Colletes daviesanus
A small solitary bee that lines its nest cells with a cellophane-like secretion. It often nests in mortar joints of old ...
Dawson's Burrowing Bee
Amegilla dawsoni
A large solitary bee endemic to Western Australia that nests in massive aggregations in hardpan clay. Males engage in vi...
Desert Digger Bee
Centris pallida
A large, fuzzy solitary bee of the Sonoran Desert that nests in burrows in hard-packed soil. Males patrol nesting areas ...
Desert Globe Mallow Bee
Diadasia diminuta
A specialist solitary bee that visits only globe mallow flowers in the American Southwest. It lines its underground nest...
Desert Honeybee
Apis mellifera jemenitica
A small, heat-tolerant subspecies of honeybee native to the deserts of Africa and Arabia. It can forage at temperatures ...
Desert Large-headed Bee
Ctenocolletes nigricans
A dark-bodied, heat-tolerant bee found in arid inland Australia. It forages during the hottest parts of the day when mos...
Dewy Ringlet
Erebia pandrose
A widespread alpine ringlet with grayish-brown wings and small eyespots. It is found across many mountain ranges from Sc...
Dominican Clearwing Butterfly
Greta diaphanus
A glasswing butterfly found in Hispaniola with nearly transparent wings. Its wings have tiny nanopillars that reduce lig...
Doris Longwing
Heliconius doris
A highly variable Heliconius butterfly that occurs in multiple color forms including blue, red, and green morphs. All fo...
Dotted Bee Fly
Bombylius discolor
A spring-flying bee fly distinguished from its commoner relative by spotted wings and a darker fur coat. Its larvae para...
Double-banded Scoliid
Scolia bicincta
A robust black wasp with two prominent yellow bands across the abdomen. It is a beneficial garden insect that parasitize...
Drone Fly
Eristalis tenax
A large hoverfly that is an excellent mimic of the honey bee, complete with similar coloring and buzzing flight. Its aqu...
East African Sugar Ant
Camponotus maculatus
A large, polymorphic ant with major workers having disproportionately large heads. Workers vary in color from reddish-br...
Eastern Calligrapher
Toxomerus geminatus
A tiny hoverfly with intricate black calligraphic markings on a yellow abdomen. It is one of the most abundant flower fl...
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa virginica
A large robust bee that resembles a bumble bee but has a shiny black hairless abdomen. It excavates nesting tunnels in w...
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Cupido comyntas
Tiny blue butterfly with thin tails on the hindwings and orange spots near the tail. One of the smallest and most common...
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
A large yellow butterfly with bold black tiger stripes and blue and orange markings on the hindwing margins. Females can...
Elephant Hawk-moth
Deilephila elpenor
A stunning pink and olive-green moth that hovers at flowers like a hummingbird at dusk. Its caterpillar has eyespots and...
Emerald Cockroach Wasp
Ampulex compressa
A brilliant emerald-green wasp that zombifies cockroaches. It delivers precise stings to the cockroachs brain, removing ...
Emerald Cuckoo Wasp
Stilbum cyanurum
One of the largest and most spectacular cuckoo wasps with a vivid metallic green and blue body. It parasitizes mud daube...
Emerald Swallowtail
Papilio palinurus
A stunning swallowtail butterfly with broad bands of emerald green on black wings. The green color is produced by yellow...
Emperor Swallowtail
Papilio ophidicephalus
South Africa's largest butterfly with bold black and yellow-green markings. Its caterpillar mimics a bird dropping in ea...
End Band Net-Winged Beetle
Calopteron terminale
A net-winged beetle with orange elytra that become black at the tips, common in eastern North American forests. It forms...
Erratic Ant
Tapinoma erraticum
A small dark ant common in southern Europe that runs in characteristic erratic zigzag patterns. It nests in dry, warm ha...
European Corn Borer Parasite
Macrocentrus grandii
A slender braconid wasp introduced to North America to control the European corn borer. It lays polyembryonic eggs that ...
European Oil Bee
Macropis europaea
One of only two Northern Hemisphere bees that collect floral oils instead of nectar as a food provision. It collects oil...
Executioner Wasp
Polistes carnifex
The largest Neotropical paper wasp, with a sting that produces immediate searing pain and potentially causes tissue necr...
Eye Gnat
Liohippelates pusio
A tiny, shiny black fly attracted to eye and wound secretions of humans and animals. It is a suspected mechanical vector...
Fatal Metalmark
Calephelis nemesis
A tiny dark brown butterfly with fine metallic silver lines across the wings and minute checkered fringes. Despite its o...
Fever Fly
Dilophus febrilis
A small, shiny black march fly with spiny front tibiae used for digging. It was once believed to cause fevers in humans,...
Fiery Skipper
Hylephila phyleus
A small bright orange skipper with short antennae and a fast darting flight. Males have a prominent black stigma on the ...
Fiji Blue Spotted Crow
Euploea tulliolus
A dark-winged butterfly with distinctive blue-white spotted margins, found in Fiji and other Pacific islands. It belongs...
Fiji Moth
Heterallactis baibakoua
A day-flying forester moth endemic to Fiji, with metallic blue-black wings. It is found in native forest where its larva...
Fiji Tree Ant
Paraparatrechina oceanica
A native ant species found in tropical forests of Fiji, where it nests in tree cavities and under bark. Pacific Island a...
Firefly
Photinus pyralis
Famous for bioluminescent signals produced by a chemical reaction in their abdomen. Each species has a unique flash patt...
Five-bar Swordtail
Graphium antiphates
An elegant swallowtail with pale creamy-white wings crossed by bold black zebra-like stripes and exceptionally long, nar...
Five-Spotted Hawk Moth
Manduca quinquemaculata
A large mottled gray moth whose caterpillar is the familiar tomato hornworm with a distinctive black horn. The adult has...
Florida Twig Ant
Pseudomyrmex ejectus
A small yellowish ant that nests in dead twigs in the canopy of southeastern US forests. It is arboreal and rarely desce...
Forelius Ant
Forelius pruinosus
A tiny fast-running ant found across the Americas that is often the first to discover food sources. It has a pruinose co...
Four-banded Furrow Bee
Halictus quadricinctus
A large, robust halictid bee with four prominent white hair bands across its dark abdomen. It is one of the biggest swea...
Four-barred Swordtail
Protographium leosthenes
A distinctive swallowtail with translucent wings crossed by four dark bars and a long sword-like tail. It has a rapid, d...
Four-spotted Cuckoo Bee
Nomada leucophthalma
A wasp-like cuckoo bee with reddish-brown and yellow markings that parasitizes Andrena mining bees. It is one of the ear...
Four-toothed Mason Wasp
Monobia quadridens
A solitary black and white mason wasp that nests in hollow stems and old carpenter bee tunnels. It provisions cells with...
Frangipani Hawk Moth
Pseudosphinx tetrio
A large gray hawk moth whose larvae are among the most spectacular caterpillars in the world, with bold black and yellow...
Franklin's Bumble Bee
Bombus franklini
The world's most range-restricted bumble bee, found only in a small area between southern Oregon and northern California...
Frigga Fritillary
Boloria frigga
A medium-sized fritillary with tawny-orange wings and a bold pattern of dark lines. The hindwing underside has a distinc...
Gatekeeper
Pyronia tithonus
A common warm-brown butterfly often seen basking on hedgerow flowers in high summer. It has distinctive twin white pupil...
Gaudy Sphinx Moth
Eumorpha labruscae
A spectacular hawk moth with blue-green and brown patterned forewings that create an extraordinary leafy camouflage. It ...
Giant Grey Hawk Moth
Agrius cingulata
A massive hawk moth with gray-streaked forewings and a pink and black banded abdomen. It is one of the largest and faste...
Giant Honey Bee
Apis dorsata
The largest honey bee species, building huge exposed single-comb nests on cliff faces and tall buildings. Colonies can c...
Giant Leopard Moth
Hypercompe scribonia
A striking white moth covered in black hollow ring spots with an iridescent blue-black body with orange markings underne...
Giant Resin Bee
Megachile sculpturalis
A large solitary bee originally from East Asia now invasive in North America and Europe. It uses tree resin and mud to s...
Giant Swallowtail
Papilio cresphontes
The largest butterfly in North America with dark brown wings crossed by yellow bands. Larvae resemble bird droppings for...
Giant Swallowtail of the Andes
Papilio thoas
One of the largest swallowtail butterflies in South America, with bold yellow and black striped wings and long tail stre...
Giant Tachinid Fly
Tachina grossa
The largest tachinid fly in Europe, covered in dense black bristles. It parasitizes large moth caterpillars and is often...
Giant Twig Ant
Pseudomyrmex spinicola
One of the largest acacia-ant species, nesting in the massive swollen thorns of Central American bullhorn acacias. Queen...
Glandon Blue
Agriades glandon
A tiny high-altitude blue butterfly with distinctive underside spotting. It flies close to the ground in exposed alpine ...
Glasswing Butterfly
Greta oto
Remarkable for its transparent wings, created by nanopillar structures that reduce light reflection to just 2%. This mak...
Gold Cuckoo Wasp
Chrysis fasciata
A brilliant green and gold metallic cuckoo wasp found across southern Europe. It parasitizes the nests of potter wasps a...
Gold-fringed Mason Bee
Osmia aurulenta
A distinctive solitary bee that nests inside empty snail shells on warm hillsides. Females cover the shell with grass an...
Golden Birdwing
Troides aeacus
A large birdwing butterfly with velvety black forewings and brilliant golden-yellow hindwings. It is found across a wide...
Golden Kaiserind
Teinopalpus aureus
An extremely rare swallowtail butterfly from southern China with brilliant golden-green coloration. It is one of the rar...
Golden Northern Bumble Bee
Bombus fervidus
A large bumble bee with an almost entirely yellow-furred thorax and anterior abdomen. It is a generalist pollinator foun...
Golden Orchid Bee
Eufriesea surinamensis
A stunningly beautiful orchid bee with a metallic golden-green body and reddish legs. It is a solitary nester that build...
Golden Spiny Ant
Polyrhachis ammon
A striking Australian spiny ant with golden pubescence covering a black body. Workers have prominent paired petiolar spi...
Golden-tailed Bull Ant
Myrmecia chrysogaster
A strikingly coloured bull ant with a distinctive golden-yellow gaster and reddish-brown head and thorax. Like other Myr...
Golden-tailed Hoverfly
Chrysotoxum cautum
A wasp-mimicking hoverfly with bold yellow and black bands and long antennae. It flies with a distinctive slow, wasp-lik...
Goldeneye Lacewing
Chrysopa oculata
A common North American green lacewing with prominent golden eyes and a distinctive black head marking. Frequently found...
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle
Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus
A familiar autumn beetle of eastern North America, commonly seen in large numbers on goldenrod flowers. Its yellow-and-b...
Goliath Birdwing
Ornithoptera goliath
One of the largest butterflies in the world, found in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea and nearby islands. Males are ...
Graceful Twig Ant
Tetraponera aethiops
A slender black African twig ant that nests in hollow stems and branches. Workers are elongate with a narrow waist and d...
Great Banded Furrow Bee
Halictus scabiosae
One of Europe's largest halictid bees, with prominent white abdominal hair bands. It is a eusocial species expanding its...
Great Golden Digger Wasp
Sphex ichneumoneus
A large solitary wasp with a golden-furred thorax and orange-red legs that digs burrows in sandy soil. It provisions its...
Great Helen
Papilio iswara
A large, elegant swallowtail with dark velvety black wings bearing a broad white band across the hindwings and blue subm...
Great Purple Hairstreak
Atlides halesus
The largest hairstreak in North America with brilliant iridescent blue upperside wings and a bright red-orange abdomen. ...
Great Spangled Fritillary
Speyeria cybele
Large orange butterfly with heavy black markings and silver spots on the hindwing underside. Common across much of North...
Greater Bee Fly
Bombylius canescens
A pale greyish bee fly with a long proboscis and clear wings. It parasitizes ground-nesting bees in arid Mediterranean h...
Green Dragontail
Lamproptera meges
A diminutive swallowtail butterfly with translucent green-tinted wings and extraordinarily long, slender tail streamers ...
Green Metallic Bee
Augochloropsis metallica
A large, robustly built metallic green sweat bee common throughout eastern North America. It is a ground-nesting communa...
Green Protea Beetle
Smaragdesthes oertzeni
A small but brilliantly metallic green beetle found in Central African forests. It is a frequent visitor to flowering tr...
Green Tree Ant
Oecophylla smaragdina subnitida
An Australian subspecies of the Asian weaver ant with distinctive bright green coloring. Indigenous Australians have tra...
Green-banded Swallowtail
Papilio nireus
A striking black swallowtail with brilliant metallic blue-green bands across both wings. It is a fast flier often seen m...
Greenland Copper
Lycaena phlaeas polaris
The Arctic subspecies of the small copper butterfly, smaller and darker than its temperate counterparts. The forewings a...
Greenland Noctuid Moth
Sympistis zetterstedtii
A small, cryptically patterned moth with mottled gray and brown forewings. It is one of the few noctuid moths that has a...
Guedin's Hawk Moth
Macroglossum gyrans
A small day-flying hawk moth with olive-brown forewings and orange-yellow hindwings. It hovers at flowers like a humming...
Gulf Fritillary
Dione vanillae
Bright orange wings with black markings above and elongated silver spots below. Despite its name, it belongs to the pass...
Hairy-footed Flower Bee
Anthophora plumipes
A fast-flying, plump solitary bee with males covered in tawny hair and females jet black. It is one of the earliest spri...
Hairy-saddled Colletes
Colletes succinctus
A late-summer plasterer bee that is a specialist on heather, secreting a cellophane-like lining in its underground nest ...
Haldeman's Tumbling Flower Beetle
Mordella haldemani
A small black tumbling flower beetle found in eastern North America. It is commonly seen on composite flowers in summer ...
Hawaiian Assimulans Yellow-faced Bee
Hylaeus assimulans
A rare endemic bee from the Hawaiian Islands, once found on several islands but now severely reduced in range. It nests ...
Hawaiian Yellow-faced Bee
Hylaeus longiceps
An endemic Hawaiian bee with distinctive yellow facial markings, found in dry coastal and lowland habitats. It nests in ...
Hawk Moth (Australian Privet Hawk Moth)
Psilogramma menephron
One of Australia's largest hawk moths, with a robust grey body and intricately patterned wings that provide superb camou...
Heath Bee Fly
Bombylius minor
A small, late-summer bee fly with greyish fur and clear wings. Its larvae parasitize solitary wasps in sandy habitats....
Heineken Hoverfly
Rhingia campestris
An unmistakable hoverfly with a long, beak-like snout used to reach nectar in tubular flowers. It has an orange abdomen ...
Heliconius Hecale Longwing
Heliconius hecale
A large Heliconius butterfly with black wings marked by broad orange and yellow patches. It is one of the most widesprea...
Heliconius Hewitsoni
Heliconius hewitsoni
A rare Heliconius butterfly with black wings and a distinctive bright yellow forewing band. It is restricted to Pacific-...
Helicopter Metalmark
Chorinea octauius
Transparent forewings with red and black hindwing tails that twirl in flight. The spinning tails create a helicopter-lik...
High Brown Fritillary
Fabriciana adippe
A large, fast-flying fritillary with rich tawny-orange wings and a complex pattern of silver spots beneath. It is one of...
High-altitude Hover Fly
Platycheirus alpinus
A small hover fly with flattened front legs, found in alpine and arctic habitats. It is an important pollinator of mount...
Holly Blue
Celastrina argiolus
Pale silvery-blue butterfly with small black dots on the underside. Alternates between holly and ivy as host plants betw...
Honey Bee
Apis mellifera
The worlds most important pollinator. Lives in complex colonies of up to 80,000 individuals with a single queen. Communi...
Honey Pot Ant
Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Certain workers called repletes serve as living food storage vessels. They hang from the ceiling, gorged with honey and ...
Honeypot Ant
Myrmecocystus mimicus
A honey ant species that engages in ritualized territorial tournaments between neighboring colonies. Workers are amber-c...
Hover Fly
Syrphus ribesii
A bright yellow and black banded hoverfly that is an excellent wasp mimic. It hovers motionless in sunbeams before darti...
Hoverfly
Episyrphus balteatus
Excellent Batesian mimics of wasps and bees. Important pollinators often overlooked. Can hover perfectly stationary in m...
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth
Hemaris thysbe
A day-flying sphinx moth with transparent wings bordered in reddish-brown that closely resembles a hummingbird. It hover...
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
Macroglossum stellatarum
A day-flying moth that hovers at flowers and produces an audible hum, almost perfectly mimicking a hummingbird. Has exce...
Hunt's Bumble Bee
Bombus huntii
A medium-sized bumble bee with orange, black, and yellow banding commonly found in the western United States. It is an i...
Imperial Jezebel
Delias harpalyce
A striking butterfly with white uppersides and vivid red and yellow undersides. It flies high in eucalypt canopy and is ...
Indian Flower Wasp
Scolia quadripustulata
A robust black scoliid wasp with four yellowish spots on its abdomen found across South Asia. It targets white grubs of ...
Indian Fritillary
Argyreus hyperbius
Orange wings with rounded black spots; females have darker forewings with white patches. Females mimic the toxic Danaus ...
Indian Giant Ant
Camponotus compressus
One of the largest and most common carpenter ants in India, with shiny black coloration and a robust build. Major worker...
Indian Honey Bee
Apis cerana indica
A small, dark-banded honey bee native to the Indian subcontinent and the primary managed bee species in traditional Indi...
Indian Tortoiseshell
Aglais caschmirensis
A beautiful butterfly with rich orange-brown wings edged with blue spots and irregular dark markings. It is found in the...
Jamides celeno
Jamides celeno
Small pale blue butterfly with white-striped underside and orange-crowned eyespots near the tail. Common in tropical Asi...
Japanese Clouded Yellow
Colias erate
Known as 'monjiro-cho' in Japanese, a common yellow butterfly found in open grasslands. Males are bright yellow while fe...
Japanese Copper
Lycaena phlaeas daimio
The Japanese subspecies of the small copper butterfly, known as 'beni-shijimi.' A small but brilliantly colored butterfl...
Japanese Honeybee
Apis cerana japonica
The Japanese subspecies of the Eastern honeybee, known as 'nihon-mitsubachi.' Smaller and darker than the European honey...
Japanese Oakblue
Arhopala japonica
A beautiful lycaenid butterfly with brilliant metallic blue upperwings and cryptic brown underwings. Found in oak forest...
Japanese Scoliid Wasp
Scolia oculata
A large black wasp with distinctive eye-like yellow spots on the abdomen found in East Asia. It parasitizes the larvae o...
Japanese Spicebush Swallowtail
Papilio protenor
A striking all-black swallowtail known as 'kuro-ageha' in Japanese. The hindwings have subtle red and blue markings. Com...
Japanese Swallowtail
Papilio xuthus
A common Asian swallowtail with pale yellow wings striped with black tiger-like bands. It is one of the most frequently ...
Japanese Yellow Swallowtail
Papilio machaon hippocrates
The Japanese subspecies of the Old World swallowtail, known as 'ki-ageha.' A large and elegant butterfly with bright yel...
Kaiseri-i-Hind Butterfly
Teinopalpus imperialis
An elusive swallowtail from Himalayan cloud forests. Its name means Emperor of India. Rarely seen due to its preference ...
Keyhole Wasp
Pachodynerus nasidens
A mud-nesting wasp notorious for building nests inside aircraft pitot tubes. It has caused aviation incidents by blockin...
Koschevnikov's Honey Bee
Apis koschevnikovi
A reddish-orange cavity-nesting honey bee found in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. It prefers lowland dipterocarp forest...
Lapland Bumblebee
Bombus lapponicus
A medium-sized bumblebee with a distinctive orange tail and yellow collar band. It is well adapted to cold, windy condit...
Large Copper Butterfly
Lycaena dispar
Once widespread across European wetlands, the English subspecies went extinct in the 1850s. Remaining populations are de...
Large Garden Bumble Bee
Bombus ruderatus
A long-tongued bumble bee introduced to New Zealand in the early 1900s to pollinate red clover. They have one of the lon...
Large Sallow Mining Bee
Andrena apicata
A rare, early-spring mining bee that specializes on sallow and willow catkins. It has declined significantly across Euro...
Large Scoliid Wasp
Megascolia maculata
Europe's largest wasp, with a massive black body marked with bold yellow spots. Females burrow underground to parasitise...
Large Skipper
Ochlodes sylvanus
A robust golden-orange skipper with a distinctive swift darting flight. Males have a prominent dark scent brand across t...
Large Wall Brown
Lasiommata maera
A medium-sized brown butterfly with large apical eyespots and warm orange patches on the forewings. It frequents rocky t...
Large White
Pieris brassicae
A common white butterfly with black wingtips and one or two black spots on the forewing. Its green-yellow caterpillars a...
Large Yellow-faced Bee
Hylaeus signatus
One of the larger masked bees in Europe with prominent yellow face patches. It is a specialist on wild mignonette and re...
Large-headed Resin Bee
Heriades truncorum
A tiny black resin bee with a disproportionately large head that nests in beetle holes and hollow stems. It uses plant r...
Latreille's Hawk Moth
Theretra latreillii
A medium-sized hawk moth with olive-brown forewings bearing a distinctive pale stripe. It is common in eastern Australia...
Lemon Migrant
Catopsilia pomona
Variable coloring from white to deep yellow with a reddish spot on hindwing underside. A widespread and migratory tropic...
Long Hoverfly
Sphaerophoria scripta
A small, elongated hoverfly with a slender yellow-and-black striped abdomen. Males have an abdomen longer than their win...
Long-horned Bee
Eucera longicornis
Males are unmistakable with their extraordinarily long antennae, nearly as long as the body. It nests in the ground in w...
Long-Legged Desert Ant
Cataglyphis bicolor
A large, bicolored desert ant with a distinctive red thorax and black head and gaster. Workers are solitary foragers wit...
Long-legged Oil Bee
Rediviva longimanus
An extraordinary South African bee whose front legs are nearly twice its body length, the longest of any bee relative to...
Lovebug
Plecia nearctica
A small black march fly famous for flying in mated pairs connected end to end for days. Massive swarms occur twice yearl...
Lunar Ichneumon Wasp
Megarhyssa lunator
A striking ichneumon with a yellow and brown banded body. It parasitizes pigeon tremex horntail larvae inside hardwood t...
Madagascan Giant Swallowtail
Pharmacophagus antenor
A large black swallowtail butterfly with red and white markings, endemic to Madagascar. It is the island's largest butte...
Madagascan Sphinx Moth
Xanthopan praedicta
A hawkmoth with an extraordinarily long proboscis, endemic to Madagascar. Darwin famously predicted its existence based ...
Madagascan Sunset Moth
Chrysiridia rhipheus
Often considered the most beautiful insect in the world. Its rainbow-colored wings with metallic hues are caused by opti...
Madagascar Swordtail Butterfly
Graphium evombar
An elegant swallowtail butterfly with elongated sword-like tails on the hindwings and pale green to white bands across d...
Magellan Birdwing
Troides magellanus
A large Philippine birdwing with black forewings and vibrant golden hindwings. It is endemic to the Philippines and part...
Malabar Banded Peacock
Papilio buddha
A striking swallowtail endemic to the Western Ghats with broad green bands across dark wings. Males congregate at mud pu...
Malabar Tree Nymph
Idea malabarica
A very large, elegant butterfly with translucent white wings patterned with dark veins and spots. It flies slowly and gr...
Malagasy Emerald Moth
Chrysiridia croesus
A day-flying uraniid moth closely related to the sunset moth but smaller, with iridescent green and gold scales across t...
Malagasy Mud Dauber Wasp
Sceliphron madecassum
A striking black and yellow wasp with a dramatically elongated, thread-like petiole connecting the thorax to the abdomen...
Malagasy Orchid Bee
Liotrigona madecassa
A tiny stingless bee that is one of Madagascar's most important pollinators. It has a black body with pale wing membrane...
Malay Lacewing
Cethosia hypsea
A vividly colored butterfly with deep orange-red wings outlined in black with white spots along the margins. The undersi...
Margined Colletes
Colletes marginatus
A small, pale plasterer bee found in sandy coastal habitats across Europe. It nests in loose sand and forages on wild mi...
Margined Leatherwing
Chauliognathus marginatus
An early-summer soldier beetle found across eastern North America with yellow elytra edged in dark margins. It visits a ...
Marmalade Hoverfly
Episyrphus balteatus balteatus
A common hoverfly with distinctive double black bands on an orange abdomen. One of the most effective migrant pollinator...
Marshalli Flower Beetle
Smaragdesthes africana
A small brilliant green flower chafer commonly found on flowers in open woodland. It is an important pollinator of savan...
Mason Wasp
Ancistrocerus nigricornis
A small black and yellow solitary wasp that nests in pre-existing holes and hollow stems. It provisions each cell with p...
Meadow Argus
Junonia villida
A medium-sized brown butterfly with prominent eyespots on each wing. It is one of Australia's most common and widespread...
Mexican Cactus Fly
Copestylum mexicanum
A large, dark hoverfly whose larvae develop in decaying cactus tissue. Adults are strong fliers visiting flowers in arid...
Mexican Twig Ant
Pseudomyrmex pallidus
A pale yellowish twig-nesting ant found from the southern United States through Central America. Small colonies occupy s...
Mnestra's Ringlet
Erebia mnestra
A dark alpine ringlet with bright orange patches on its forewings. It inhabits steep, rocky grasslands at high elevation...
Mocker Swallowtail
Papilio dardanus
A remarkable swallowtail where females mimic several different toxic butterfly species while males look completely diffe...
Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
A small butterfly with dark brown wings covered in white spots arranged in irregular bands. Several of its subspecies ar...
Mountain Bumblebee
Bombus monticola
A colorful bumblebee with bright red-orange tail, yellow thorax bands, and a black midriff. It is found at high altitude...
Mountain Fritillary
Boloria napaea
A small fritillary with rich orange-brown wings marked with black spots. It occurs in damp alpine meadows alongside stre...
Mountain Hover Fly
Arctophila superbiens
A furry, bumblebee-mimicking hover fly of alpine meadows. Its dense body hair helps it retain heat in cold mountain envi...
Mud Dauber Wasp
Sceliphron caementarium
A slender black and yellow solitary wasp that builds tubular mud nests on walls and structures. It stocks each cell with...
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Merodon equestris
A bumble bee-mimicking hoverfly that comes in multiple color forms matching different bumblebee species. Its larvae bore...
Narrow-banded Hoverfly
Meliscaeva auricollis
A small hoverfly with narrow yellow crescent markings on a dark abdomen. It is among the first hoverflies to appear in s...
Narrow-winged Bee Fly
Systoechus vulgaris
A small, hairy bee fly with a rounded body and a short proboscis compared to Bombylius species. It hovers at flowers in ...
Neotropical Blue Hairstreak
Pseudolycaena marsyas
A brilliant iridescent blue hairstreak butterfly with delicate tail streamers on the hind wings. Its underside is pale g...
Neotropical Paper Wasp
Polistes canadensis
A large reddish-brown paper wasp with dark wings that builds open-comb nests under eaves and branches. It is one of the ...
Neotropical Stingless Bee
Tetragonisca angustula
A tiny stingless bee whose honey has been harvested by indigenous peoples for centuries....
Nessus Sphinx Moth
Amphion floridensis
A day-flying sphinx moth with dark chocolate-brown wings and two bright yellow bands across the abdomen. It hovers like ...
Net-winged Beetle
Calopteron reticulatum
A toxic beetle with raised net-like veins on its elytra and aposematic coloration....
Noble Chafer
Gnorimus nobilis
A scarce metallic green beetle with small white flecks on the elytra. It is associated with old orchards and ancient fru...
Nocturnal Sweat Bee
Megalopta genalis
One of few bees adapted to forage in near-total darkness in tropical forests....
Northern Clouded Yellow
Colias hecla
A bright orange-yellow butterfly with broad dark borders on the upperwings. The underside is greenish-yellow with a prom...
Numata Longwing
Heliconius numata
A remarkable butterfly that exists in over a dozen wing pattern forms, each mimicking a different species of toxic Melin...
Nymphidium mantus
Nymphidium mantus
White butterfly with dark wing edges resembling a tiny pierid. Caterpillars are tended by ants in a mutualistic relation...
Orange Sulphur
Colias eurytheme
Orange-yellow butterfly with black wing borders and a pink-rimmed silver spot on the hindwing underside. Often hybridize...
Orange-tip
Anthocharis cardamines
Males have bright orange wingtips; females are plain white with black tips. A herald of spring in European woodlands....
Orchard Swallowtail
Papilio aegeus
A large black swallowtail where females display white and red markings mimicking toxic butterflies. Males are mostly bla...
Orchid Bee
Euglossa imperialis
Dazzling metallic-colored bees that collect aromatic compounds from orchids. Males use collected scents to attract femal...
Ordinate Large-headed Bee
Ctenocolletes ordensis
A rarely collected bee from the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. It is known from very few specimens and ...
Pacific Cuckoo Wasp
Chrysis pellucidula
A brightly metallic cuckoo wasp with green-blue head and thorax and a coppery red abdomen. It parasitizes solitary mason...
Painted Bat Moth
Alcidis zodiaca
A day-flying moth with iridescent blue-black wings marked with bands of brilliant orange and white patches. Its flight i...
Painted Dark Sweat Bee
Lasioglossum pictum
A small dark furrow bee with fine punctation on its thorax found in western Europe. It nests in sparsely vegetated groun...
Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
The most widely distributed butterfly in the world, found on every continent except Antarctica and South America. Known ...
Painted Mining Bee
Andrena fucata
A handsome spring bee with a red-brown thorax and banded abdomen. It is common in woodland clearings and gardens across ...
Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow
Colias werdandi
A pale greenish-yellow butterfly with very faint dark wing borders. It is closely associated with Scandinavian mountain ...
Pale Brown Hawk Moth
Theretra nessus
A sleek hawk moth with uniform brown coloring and darker lateral stripes along the body. It is widespread across tropica...
Pale Grass Blue
Zizeeria maha
One of the smallest and most common butterflies in Japan, known as 'yamato-shijimi.' Found everywhere from city sidewalk...
Pale Green Lacewing
Chrysoperla pallida
A light-colored lacewing recently distinguished from the carnea species complex. Identified partly by its unique courtsh...
Pale Triangle
Graphium eurypylus
A fast-flying swallowtail with pale blue-green triangle markings on black wings. It frequently puddles on wet sand and m...
Paradise Birdwing
Ornithoptera paradisea
A spectacular birdwing butterfly endemic to Papua New Guinea, notable for the elongated tails on the male's hindwings. M...
Parasitic Bee Fly
Winthemia rufopicta
A medium-sized tachinid fly that parasitizes armyworm caterpillars and other crop pest larvae. It is found across multip...
Patagonian Bumble Bee
Bombus dahlbomii
The largest bumble bee in the world, with queens reaching up to 40 mm in length and covered in dense orange fur. Its pop...
Peacock Butterfly
Aglais io
Reddish-brown wings with four large blue and yellow eyespots resembling peacock feathers. Undersides are nearly black, p...
Peak White
Pontia callidice
A white butterfly with greenish marbling on the underside of its hindwings. It is one of the highest-flying European but...
Pearly-banded Bee
Nomia melanderi
A ground-nesting bee with pearly white abdominal bands vital for alfalfa pollination. Large nesting aggregations in alka...
Pellucid Hawk Moth
Cephonodes hylas
A strikingly beautiful day-flying hawk moth with entirely transparent wings and a bright green and yellow body. It hover...
Pepe Para Riki (Common Copper)
Lycaena salustius
New Zealand's most common endemic butterfly, a small copper-coloured species found in open habitats throughout the count...
Phasia Tachinid
Phasia hemiptera
A parasitic fly with distinctive dark-tipped wings that parasitizes shieldbug species. Males have broader wings than fem...
Philippine Birdwing
Troides rhadamantus
A large birdwing butterfly endemic to the Philippines with black forewings and bright golden-yellow hindwings. The body ...
Pine White
Neophasia menapia
Delicate white butterfly with black forewing veins. Uniquely among pierids, larvae feed on conifer needles rather than b...
Pitted Resin Bee
Anthidiellum strigatum
A small, stout bee with bold yellow and black markings that constructs free-standing resin nests on rocks and walls. It ...
Plain-faced Dronefly
Eristalis arbustorum
A small, dark dronefly with a distinctive bare facial stripe. It is one of the most common hoverflies visiting garden fl...
Plasterer Bee
Colletes hederae
A solitary bee discovered in 1993 that is a specialist pollinator of ivy flowers....
Polar Fritillary
Boloria polaris
A small butterfly with warm orange upperwings marked with dark spots and zigzag lines. The underside has a distinctive p...
Police Car Swallowtail
Graphium policenes
A striking swallowtail butterfly with black wings covered in small pale green spots resembling a police car's livery. It...
Potter Wasp
Delta unguiculatum
A solitary wasp that constructs small urn-shaped mud nests on walls and branches. Each pot is provisioned with paralyzed...
Priamus Birdwing
Ornithoptera priamus
A large and variable birdwing butterfly found across Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and parts of northern Austra...
Progressive Bee Fly
Exoprosopa fasciata
A large bee fly with boldly banded wings in dark brown and clear patterns. It is a fast and agile flyer, frequently hove...
Punched Metalmark
Adelotypa annulifera
Brown metalmark with distinctive pale-ringed dark spots giving a punched-hole appearance. Active in the forest understor...
Punctate Sweat Bee
Lasioglossum punctatissimum
A tiny, dark furrow bee with dense punctation covering its thorax and head. It is one of the most common but overlooked ...
Red Dwarf Honey Bee
Apis florea
The smallest honey bee species, building single exposed combs hanging from tree branches. They are important wild pollin...
Red Lacewing
Cethosia biblis
A large butterfly with brilliant red-orange wings boldly bordered in black and white. The underside features an elaborat...
Red Soldier Beetle
Rhagonycha fulva
A very common soldier beetle in Europe with orange-red elytra tipped in black. It is one of the most familiar beetles on...
Red Velvet Ant
Dasymutilla magnifica
A large, brilliantly red-haired velvet ant found in the arid regions of the American Southwest. Females are wingless and...
Red-banded Hairstreak
Calycopis cecrops
Small dark butterfly with a prominent red-orange postmedian band on the underside. Hindwings bear false head pattern wit...
Red-banded Jezebel
Delias mysis
A tropical butterfly with white upper wings and vivid red bands on the hindwing underside. It is found in the rainforest...
Red-legged Jewel Beetle
Castiarina rufipennis
A medium-sized jewel beetle with reddish-brown elytra and metallic green thorax. It visits flowers in eucalypt woodlands...
Red-spotted Jewel Beetle
Castiarina erythroptera
A strikingly beautiful jewel beetle with bright red elytra spotted with dark markings. It is commonly found visiting wil...
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Bombus lapidarius
A jet-black bumblebee with a vivid orange-red tail that is unmistakable in flight. It commonly nests underground in old ...
Red-tipped Flower Beetle
Malachius bipustulatus
A small metallic green beetle with bright red tips on each elytron. Males can evert orange vesicles from their thorax as...
Red-tipped Flower Longhorn
Stictoleptura rubra
A sexually dimorphic flower longhorn where males have tawny-yellow elytra and females are bright red. Common across Euro...
Regent Skipper
Euschemon rafflesia
A large, strikingly colored skipper butterfly with black wings marked by bold yellow and blue patches. It is the only sk...
Resin Bee
Megachile campanulae
A solitary bee that collects plant resins and sap to construct its brood cells....
Rice Stem Borer
Scirpophaga incertulas
A small white moth whose larvae bore into rice stems, causing the devastating symptoms known as 'dead heart' in vegetati...
Richmond Birdwing
Ornithoptera richmondia
A large subtropical birdwing butterfly with green and black males and brown females. It is threatened by habitat loss an...
Robust Large-headed Bee
Stenotritus pubescens
A heavily built bee covered in dense pale pubescence found in southern Australia. It is one of the fastest-flying bee sp...
Rustic Sphinx Moth
Manduca rustica
A striking hawk moth with dark brown forewings marked with white patches and a banded abdomen. It is a strong flier foun...
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
Bombus affinis
A once-common bumble bee named for the rust-colored patch on the second abdominal segment of workers. It was the first b...
Samoan Swallowtail
Papilio godeffroyi
A rare and beautiful swallowtail butterfly endemic to Samoa. It has dark wings with pale markings and is found in native...
Sand Wasp
Bembix rostrata
A robust wasp that digs burrows in sandy soil and provisions them with flies. It progressively feeds its larvae fresh pr...
Sandpit Mining Bee
Andrena barbilabris
A pale, sandy-colored mining bee that specializes in nesting in loose sandy soils. It is commonly found in sand pits, co...
Sara Longwing
Heliconius sara
A striking longwing butterfly with velvety black wings marked by brilliant blue iridescent bands. It roosts communally i...
Sara Orangetip
Anthocharis sara
Small white butterfly with vivid orange forewing tips and mottled greenish hindwing undersides. Flies early in spring in...
Sertania Metalmark
Sertania circumdata
Small brown butterfly with orange patches and metallic scaling on the underside. Endemic to the Brazilian cerrado biome....
Seven-spotted Green Lacewing
Chrysopa septempunctata
A green lacewing marked with seven dark spots on its head. Common across Europe and temperate Asia in vegetated habitats...
Shepherd's Fritillary
Boloria pales
A variable fritillary butterfly of high alpine pastures. Its wing pattern varies greatly between populations across diff...
Silky Hairstreak
Pseudalmenus chlorinda
A small dark butterfly with metallic blue-green sheen and orange-spotted hindwing tails. Its larvae have a mutualistic r...
Silver Y
Autographa gamma
A migratory moth marked with a bright silvery Y or gamma symbol on each forewing. Billions migrate northward across Euro...
Silver-striped Hawk Moth
Hippotion celerio
A medium-sized hawk moth with olive-brown forewings and bright pink hindwings, featuring silver stripes along the body. ...
Silver-washed Fritillary
Argynnis paphia
A large, fast-flying butterfly with bright orange upperwings marked with black spots and streaks. The hindwing underside...
Silvery Leafcutter Bee
Megachile leachella
A coastal specialist bee with silvery-white hair on the underside of the abdomen. It nests in sandy ground near the coas...
Skipper Butterfly
Epargyreus clarus
A stout-bodied butterfly with hooked antennae, brown wings with golden spots on the forewing, and a distinctive silver p...
Sleepy Orange
Eurema nicippe
Bright orange butterfly with irregular black borders and a small dark spot on the forewing. Named for a sleepy-eye-shape...
Small Apollo
Parnassius phoebus
A high-altitude alpine butterfly with translucent white wings bearing small red and black spots. It flies weakly over al...
Small Carpenter Bee
Ceratina calcarata
A tiny metallic blue-green bee that nests in the pithy stems of broken twigs. It is one of the few bee species showing r...
Small Copper
Lycaena phlaeas
A vivid little butterfly with burnished copper-orange forewings spotted with black. It is feisty and territorial for its...
Small Elephant Hawk Moth
Deilephila porcellus
A smaller relative of the elephant hawk moth, with delicate pink and yellow-olive coloring. It is found in grasslands an...
Small Heath Butterfly
Coenonympha pamphilus
A small, plain orange-brown butterfly that always rests with its wings closed. It is one of the most widespread grasslan...
Small Postman
Heliconius erato
A neotropical butterfly with black wings and vivid red, yellow, or white bands depending on the geographic race. It is a...
Smeathman's Furrow Bee
Lasioglossum smeathmanellum
One of the smallest bees in the world, this tiny metallic species nests in old mortar joints and earthen banks. It is su...
Snowberry Clearwing
Hemaris diffinis
A bumblebee mimic with largely transparent wings bordered in dark brown, a fuzzy olive thorax, and black and yellow band...
Sonoran Blue
Philotes sonorensis
Tiny blue butterfly with orange and black hindwing spots. One of the earliest-flying butterflies of the year in the Amer...
Sonoran Honeypot Ant
Myrmecocystus navajo
A honeypot ant species native to the high deserts of the Colorado Plateau. Repletes store amber-colored honeydew in thei...
Sooty Ringlet
Erebia pluto
One of the darkest European butterflies, almost entirely black. It inhabits the highest scree slopes and rock faces in t...
South American Swallowtail
Heraclides thoas
A large swallowtail butterfly with black wings bearing bright yellow band patterns and prominent tail extensions. It is ...
Southeast Asian Stingless Bee
Heterotrigona itama
A popular managed stingless bee in Malaysia and Indonesia valued for its medicinal honey. They construct their nests in ...
Southern Birdwing
Troides minos
India's largest butterfly, with a striking black and bright yellow color scheme. Males display velvety black forewings a...
Southern Dogface
Zerene cesonia
Yellow butterfly with a pointed forewing showing a poodle-dog-face pattern in black. Males have a warm orange flush on t...
Soybean Aphid Parasite
Binodoxys communis
A tiny Asian braconid wasp studied as a biocontrol candidate for the invasive soybean aphid in North America. It is high...
Spanish Festoon
Zerynthia rumina
A brightly patterned butterfly with zigzag black markings and red and yellow patches on its wings. It is a spring-flying...
Speckled Yellow
Pseudopanthera macularia
A bright yellow day-flying moth with brown speckles across the wings. It flutters through woodland clearings and along s...
Spined Sweat Bee
Agapostemon splendens
A brilliantly iridescent green sweat bee with bluish reflections found in the eastern United States. Both sexes are enti...
Spiny Ant
Polyrhachis dives
A distinctive Asian ant with paired spines on the petiole and propodeum. Workers are metallic dark brown and build nests...
Spoonwing Lacewing
Nemoptera bipennis
A graceful insect with spatula-shaped hindwing extensions, giving it an ethereal appearance in flight. Common in Iberian...
Spotted Jezebel
Delias aganippe
A boldly patterned butterfly with black-bordered white wings and red-spotted undersides. It is the most widespread Delia...
Spotted-eye Hover Fly
Eristalinus taeniops
A large hover fly with distinctively striped compound eyes and a bee-like body. It is an excellent pollinator found thro...
Squash Bee
Peponapis pruinosa
A solitary ground-nesting bee that specializes exclusively in pollinating squash, pumpkin, and gourd flowers. It begins ...
Sugar Ant
Camponotus consobrinus
A common Australian ant with an orange-brown thorax and black head and abdomen. It is mainly nocturnal and frequently en...
Sugarbag Bee
Tetragonula carbonaria
A tiny Australian stingless bee commonly kept in backyard hives for pollination and honey. They build distinctive spiral...
Sulawesi Honey Bee
Apis nigrocincta
A cavity-nesting honey bee endemic to Sulawesi and nearby islands. It was only recognized as a distinct species in 2000 ...
Sunbeam Butterfly
Curetis thetis
Dark upper wings contrast with brilliant silvery-white undersides. Fast-flying and sun-loving, often found darting aroun...
Sweat Bee
Halictus ligatus
A small, dark metallic bee that is attracted to human perspiration for its salt content. It exhibits variable social beh...
Sweat Bee of the Desert
Lasioglossum titusi
A small metallic green bee found in arid regions of western North America. It nests communally in sandy desert soil....
Swiss Brassy Ringlet
Erebia tyndarus
A dark butterfly with a greenish metallic sheen on its upperside. It is endemic to alpine meadows in the Swiss Alps....
Swollen-thorn Acacia Ant
Pseudomyrmex peperi
An obligate acacia-ant mutualist that nests exclusively within the hollow thorns of Vachellia trees. Workers patrol the ...
Synchronous Firefly of India
Pteroptyx maipo
A small firefly known for its remarkable ability to synchronize its flashing with neighboring individuals. Mangrove tree...
Tapered Drone Fly
Eristalis pertinax
A large hoverfly resembling a honeybee but distinguished by its yellow-tipped front tarsi. It is active from early sprin...
Tawny-edged Skipper
Polites themistocles
A small brown skipper with a warm orange-tawny leading edge on the forewing. It is one of the most common grass skippers...
Teak Defoliator Moth
Hyblaea puera
A medium-sized moth with orange-brown forewings and bright orange hindwings bordered in black. Its caterpillars are the ...
Teddy Bear Bee
Amegilla bombiformis
A plump, densely furred native Australian bee that closely resembles a bumblebee. Despite its cuddly appearance, it is a...
Tersa Sphinx Moth
Xylophanes tersa
A sleek hawk moth with narrow, pointed forewings in lavender-gray with darker streaks. It is a fast and agile flier foun...
Texas Striped Sweat Bee
Agapostemon texanus
A widespread metallic green sweat bee found across much of North America. Males have distinctive black and yellow abdomi...
Thick-legged Flower Beetle
Oedemera nobilis
A metallic green beetle with splayed elytra that expose the wings. Males have distinctively swollen hind femora....
Thistledown Velvet Ant
Dasymutilla gloriosa
A strikingly beautiful velvet ant covered in long white hair that resembles a piece of thistledown blowing across desert...
Tiger Hoverfly
Helophilus pendulus
A distinctive hoverfly with bold yellow and black stripes on the thorax. It breeds in muddy, organically enriched water....
Tiger Moth of the Amazon
Idalus herois
A striking moth with bold black and white striped forewings and orange hind wings with black spots. The bright colors se...
Tiny Dark Sweat Bee
Lasioglossum villosulum
A tiny, inconspicuous furrow bee widespread across the Palearctic region. Despite its small size, it is an important pol...
Tormus Bee
Perdita minima
The smallest known bee in the world at under 2 mm in length. It is a solitary ground-nesting species found in the southw...
Transparent Burnet
Zygaena purpuralis
A day-flying moth with semi-transparent red-streaked forewings. It is found in calcareous grasslands where wild thyme gr...
Tres Marias Firefly
Photinus knabi
A small firefly native to Mexico with a yellowish-green flash. It has a dark body with a pale-bordered pronotum and is f...
Trimmer's Mining Bee
Andrena trimmerana
A widespread spring mining bee with brownish-grey fur and a distinctive tooth on the hind femur. It forages on a wide ra...
Turtle Ant
Cephalotes atratus
A large, flat-bodied arboreal ant with a broad disc-shaped head used to block nest entrances in tree holes. Workers can ...
Twin-spot Centurion
Sargus bipunctatus
A metallic bronze-green soldier fly with two characteristic pale spots on the frons. It is one of the most common strati...
Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly
Chrysotoxum bicinctum
A striking wasp-mimicking hoverfly with bold yellow and black banding. Distinguished from wasps by its hovering flight a...
Two-coloured Mason Bee
Osmia bicolor
A distinctive bee with a black head and thorax and bright orange abdominal hair. It uniquely nests inside empty snail sh...
Ulysses Butterfly
Papilio ulysses
A large swallowtail with electric blue uppersides and cryptic brown undersides. It is an iconic symbol of tropical north...
Unequal Cellophane Bee
Colletes inaequalis
An early spring bee that forms large nesting aggregations in sandy soil. It lines its cells with a waterproof secretion ...
Velvet Ant
Dasymutilla occidentalis
Not actually an ant but a wasp. Females are wingless and covered in dense, colorful hair. Known as "cow killers" for the...
Verdant Sphinx Moth
Euchloron megaera
A large green and brown hawk moth that pollinates tropical flowers at dusk....
Vine Hawk Moth
Hippotion velox
A sleek olive-brown hawk moth with a distinctive pale dorsal stripe. It is widespread across Africa and Asia, and is one...
Wallace's Longwing
Heliconius wallacei
A relatively rare Heliconius species with dark wings marked by a distinctive yellow band on the forewing and red patches...
Wallacea Giant Bee
Megachile pluto
The worlds largest bee at 39 mm long with a 63 mm wingspan. Thought extinct for 38 years until rediscovered in Indonesia...
Wallaces Golden Birdwing
Ornithoptera croesus
Named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who called it the finest specimen he ever captured. Males are brilliant orange-gold a...
Waved Sphinx Moth
Ceratomia undulosa
A large gray hawk moth with wavy dark lines across the forewings, providing superb bark camouflage. It is one of the mos...
Western Bumble Bee
Bombus occidentalis
A once-common bumble bee of western North America that has experienced dramatic population declines since the late 1990s...
Western Large-headed Bee
Ctenocolletes smaragdinus
A metallic green bee endemic to Western Australia that belongs to the ancient family Stenotritidae. It nests in sandy so...
White-banded Hoverfly
Leucozona lucorum
A dark hoverfly with a broad white band across the abdomen. It is associated with shaded habitats and visits white umbel...
White-banded Sweat Bee
Lasioglossum leucozonium
A solitary dark brown furrow bee with conspicuous white hair bands on its abdomen. It is one of the most widespread and ...
White-footed Ant
Technomyrmex difficilis
A small black ant with pale tarsi that forms enormous colonies numbering in the millions. It is a serious pest in Florid...
White-Lined Sphinx Moth
Hyles lineata
A common sphinx moth with bold white stripes on its forewings and a pink-banded hindwing. It hovers at flowers like a hu...
Willoughby's Leafcutter Bee
Megachile willughbiella
A large, furry leafcutter bee common across Europe that nests in a variety of above-ground cavities. It is named after t...
Willowherb Hawk Moth
Proserpinus proserpina
A compact hawk moth with olive-green forewings and bright orange hindwings with a dark border. It flies at dusk and is f...
Winter Ant
Prenolepis imparis
A small brown ant unique for being most active during cold months when other ants are dormant. Replete workers store liq...
Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee
Megachile ligniseca
A large, dark leafcutter bee that nests in rotten wood and dead tree stumps across Europe. Females cut large leaf pieces...
Wool Carder Bee
Anthidium manicatum
A robust yellow-and-black solitary bee whose females scrape plant hairs to line their nests. Males are territorial and a...
Yam Hawk Moth
Theretra oldenlandiae
A widespread tropical hawk moth with olive-brown forewings and contrasting dark and light lateral body stripes. Its larv...
Yellow False Blister Beetle
Oedemera flavipes
A slender yellowish-brown oedemerid beetle found across Europe. It is a frequent visitor to umbelliferous flowers in lat...
Yellow Flower Wasp
Radumeris tasmaniensis
A large, robust wasp with a bright yellow and black body commonly seen visiting flowers in Australian gardens. Females b...
Yellow Glassy Tiger
Parantica aspasia
A delicate danainae butterfly with semi-transparent wings marked with black veins and margins and pale yellowish cells. ...
Yellow-legged Dance Fly
Empis livida
A medium-sized dance fly with yellowish legs, a grayish body, and a distinctive long proboscis. It forms conspicuous mat...
Zela Metalmark
Emesis zela
A small butterfly with rust-brown wings marked with fine dark lines and subtle metallic scaling. It inhabits mountain ca...
Zodiac Moth
Alcides metaurus
A spectacular day-flying moth with iridescent green and black wings resembling a swallowtail butterfly. It migrates in l...
Zodion Thick-headed Fly
Zodion cinereum
A small, grayish-brown conopid fly with a slightly swollen head and prominent proboscis. It is commonly found on flowers...