Farmland
531 species found in this habitat
African Blister Beetle
Mylabris oculata
A conspicuous beetle with orange-red and black banded elytra. It contains cantharidin, a potent toxin that can cause sev...
African Cassava Leaf Beetle
Mesoplatys ochroptera
A small, yellowish-brown beetle that is a significant pest of cassava in sub-Saharan Africa. Both adults and larvae feed...
African Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
Oryctes monoceros
A robust, dark chestnut-brown beetle with a single curved horn on the male's head. It is a significant pest of coconut a...
African Cotton Stainer
Dysdercus fasciatus
A vividly red and black pyrrhocorid bug that is a significant pest of cotton across tropical Africa. It aggregates in la...
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 Ladybird Beetle
Cheilomenes propinqua
A small, dome-shaped beetle with variable black and orange-red patterns. It is a voracious predator of aphids and is use...
African Melon Leaf Beetle
Aulacophora africana
A bright orange to yellowish-red beetle with a smooth, shiny surface that is a significant pest of cucurbit crops across...
African Migratory Locust
Locusta migratoria migratorioides
A widespread African subspecies of the migratory locust that can form devastating swarms. Solitary individuals are green...
African Predator Rove Beetle
Philonthus longicornis
A medium-sized, cosmopolitan rove beetle with notably long antennae relative to its body size. It is commonly found in d...
African Twig Girdler
Analeptes trifasciata
A distinctive African lamiin known for its habit of girdling living tree branches. The female chews a ring around a bran...
Agave Snout Weevil
Scyphophorus acupunctatus
A large, black weevil that attacks agave and yucca plants by boring into the base. It can destroy entire agave plantatio...
Aleochara Parasitoid Rove Beetle
Aleochara bilineata
A small, dark rove beetle whose larvae are parasitoids of cabbage root fly pupae. Adults are also active predators of fl...
Alfalfa Caterpillar Parasite
Cotesia medicaginis
A small braconid wasp that parasitizes alfalfa butterfly caterpillars in agricultural fields. Larvae spin white cocoons ...
Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee
Megachile rotundata
A small solitary bee that cuts precise circular pieces from leaves to construct nest cells. It is the most important man...
Alfalfa Weevil Parasitoid
Bathyplectes curculionis
A small parasitoid wasp that attacks alfalfa weevil larvae in North America. It was introduced from Europe as a classica...
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...
American Cuckoo Wasp
Chrysis angolensis
A metallic green and blue cuckoo wasp found across sub-Saharan Africa. It parasitizes mud-nesting wasps and bees on rock...
American Hoverfly
Eupeodes americanus
A widespread North American hoverfly with yellow and black markings. Larvae are voracious aphid predators in crop fields...
Anchor Stink Bug
Stiretrus anchorago
A predatory stink bug that is one of North America's most colorful pentatomids, with highly variable patterns of red, bl...
Angle Shades
Phlogophora meticulosa
A moth with uniquely crumpled wings in olive, pink, and brown that perfectly resemble a dead leaf. It can be found in ev...
Ant-decapitating Fly
Pseudacteon tricuspis
A minute parasitoid fly that targets fire ants by injecting eggs into their bodies. The developing larva migrates to the...
Antipaluria Web Spinner
Antipaluria urichi
A large tropical web spinner from Trinidad and northern South America. It builds conspicuous silk galleries on the trunk...
Arabiensis Mosquito
Anopheles arabiensis
A member of the Anopheles gambiae complex that thrives in drier, more arid conditions. It feeds on both humans and cattl...
Asian Comma Butterfly
Polygonia c-aureum
Known as 'ki-tataha' in Japanese, this butterfly has distinctively jagged wing edges that provide excellent camouflage a...
Asian Mulberry Longhorn
Apriona germari
A large greyish-brown lamiin that attacks mulberry, fig, and other trees across South and Southeast Asia. It is a seriou...
Asiatic Rice Borer
Chilo suppressalis
A major pest of rice across Asia, where larvae bore into tillers and stems. Heavy infestations cause whiteheads and sign...
Asparagus Beetle
Crioceris asparagi
A colorful blue-black beetle with cream spots and a red thorax that feeds exclusively on asparagus. Both adults and larv...
Assassin Bug
Zelus renardii
Ambush predators that impale prey with their curved beak and inject lethal saliva. Some species coat their legs with sti...
Aster Leafhopper
Macrosteles quadrilineatus
A tiny green leafhopper that transmits aster yellows phytoplasma to hundreds of plant species. It is one of the most eco...
Australian Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus australis
A small brown tunneling dung beetle native to Australia with minor horns in males. It was one of the first dung beetle s...
Australian Hoverfly
Simosyrphus grandicornis
A common Australian hoverfly with orange-yellow markings on a dark abdomen. It is an important pollinator and aphid pred...
Australian Plague Locust
Chortoicetes terminifera
Australia's most economically damaging locust species. It has a distinctive dark spot at the tip of each hindwing....
Australian Sheep Blowfly
Calliphora augur
A large, dark blue blow fly endemic to Australia with a distinctive orange face and cheeks. It is one of the earliest co...
Australian Water Scavenger Beetle
Sternolophus marginicollis
A medium-sized water scavenger beetle found throughout Australia and parts of Southeast Asia. It is attracted to lights ...
Banana Cockroach
Periplaneta truncata
A large cockroach commonly found in tropical African banana plantations. It has a dark brown body with truncated wing ti...
Banana Moth
Opogona sacchari
A small tropical moth whose larvae bore into banana stems and stored tubers....
Band-eyed Brown Horse Fly
Tabanus bromius
A common European horse fly with distinctive banded eyes. It is one of the most frequent biters of cattle across Europe....
Banded Fruit Weevil
Phlyctinus callosus
A small greyish-brown weevil with pale transverse bands on the elytra. It is a significant pest of fruit crops and grape...
Banded-wing Thrips
Aeolothrips fasciatus
A predatory thrips with dark-banded wings commonly found on crop plants. It preys on pest thrips, mites, and small insec...
Barbados Cane Weevil
Metamasius hemipterus
A large weevil with variable striped patterns, originally from the Caribbean. It is a significant pest of sugarcane and ...
Bean Aphid Parasite
Lysiphlebus fabarum
A minute braconid wasp that parasitizes black bean aphids and related species. Some populations reproduce asexually, con...
Bee Killer Robber Fly
Mallophora bomboides
A large fuzzy robber fly that closely resembles a bumble bee in both appearance and buzzing flight. It perches on vegeta...
Bee Stylops
Stylops pacificus
A strepsipteran parasite of Andrena bees in western North America. Males emerge as tiny winged adults that live for only...
Beet Armyworm
Spodoptera exigua
A small grayish-brown moth whose green caterpillars attack a wide range of vegetable and field crops. Larvae often skele...
Beet Leafhopper
Circulifer tenellus
A small pale green to tan leafhopper that transmits curly top virus to sugar beets, tomatoes, and beans. It breeds on de...
Big-headed Fly
Pipunculus campestris
A small fly with an enormously enlarged, almost entirely eye-covered spherical head. It hovers in vegetation searching f...
Binodis Dung Beetle
Onthophagus binodis
A small, brown-black tunneling dung beetle with two small nodules on the male head. It was introduced to Australia from ...
Bipunctate Aleocharine
Aleochara bipustulata
A robust aleocharine rove beetle with two reddish spots on its elytra, serving as both predator and parasitoid of agricu...
Black Aphodius
Aphodius fimetarius
A small dweller dung beetle with a black head and pronotum and reddish-brown elytra. It lives directly within dung pats ...
Black Blow Fly
Phormia regina
A dark metallic blow fly that is among the first insects to colonize a corpse. It is a key species in forensic entomolog...
Black Dung Beetle
Copris lunaris
A robust black dung beetle found across Europe and parts of Asia. Males bear a single curved horn on the head and exhibi...
Black Earwig
Chelisoches morio
A glossy black earwig with reddish legs commonly found in tropical regions. It is often associated with banana plantatio...
Black Field Cricket
Teleogryllus commodus
A common black cricket whose chirping song is a familiar sound of Australian summer nights. It is widespread across Aust...
Black Horse Fly
Tabanus atratus
A very large entirely black horse fly and one of the biggest flies in North America. Females are persistent blood-feeder...
Black Hunter Thrips
Haplothrips leucanthemi
A tube-tailed thrips found in the flowers of daisies and other composites across Europe. Unlike many thrips, it has a tu...
Blister Beetle
Epicauta vittata
A striped black and yellow beetle that releases cantharidin, a chemical causing painful skin blisters. It is a pest of t...
Blood-vein Moth
Timandra comae
A delicate pinkish-cream moth with a distinctive reddish-pink diagonal line crossing each wing. It rests with wings spre...
Blue Leaf Beetle
Colaspidema atrum
A small, oval, dark blue to black beetle with a slight metallic luster. It can be a pest of lucerne (alfalfa) and other ...
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 Rove Beetle
Paederus fuscipes
A small, slender beetle with metallic blue elytra and an orange abdomen. It is an important biological control agent in ...
Blue Willow Beetle
Phratora vulgatissima
A small, metallic dark blue to blue-green beetle commonly found on willow trees. It can cause significant defoliation in...
Blue-Banded Bee
Amegilla cingulata
A striking Australian native bee with iridescent turquoise bands on its abdomen. They are important buzz pollinators of ...
Bluebottle Fly
Calliphora vicina
A common metallic blue blowfly found in urban areas worldwide. Breeds in dead pigeons, rodents and meat. An important sp...
Boll Weevil
Anthonomus grandis
A small grayish-brown weevil with a long curved snout used to bore into cotton bolls. It devastated the American cotton ...
Bombay Locust
Nomadacris succincta
A large yellow and brown locust that can form swarms in South and Southeast Asia. Solitary adults are pale brown but gre...
Braconid Mummy Wasp
Aphidius matricariae
A small parasitoid wasp specializing in green peach aphids and other crop pest aphids. It is commercially reared for bio...
Brazilian Eucalyptus Sawfly
Deuteronomus amoenus
A medium-sized pergid sawfly that attacks eucalyptus plantations in South America. Larvae are gregarious and can cause s...
Brazilian Meinertellid
Machilinus rupestris
A bristletail found in rocky habitats in the Mediterranean. It is smaller than most machilids and frequents dry, warm en...
Bristly Tachinid
Epalpus signifer
A bristly gray parasitic fly found across North America. It parasitizes a wide range of caterpillars including armyworms...
Broad-Horned Onitis
Onitis caffer
A large, dark brown to black tunneler with massive forelegs in males. The prothorax is greatly enlarged. It digs deep ve...
Broad-shouldered Leaf Beetle
Chrysomela tremula
A robust, convex beetle with dark metallic greenish-black to bronze elytra and irregular rows of punctures. It is closel...
Bronze Leaf Beetle
Colaphellus sophiae
A small, bronze to dark coppery beetle with a convex, oval body. It feeds on various cruciferous plants and can occasion...
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Halyomorpha halys
A shield-shaped brown bug with marbled patterning and distinctive white-banded antennae. Native to East Asia, it has bec...
Brown Stink Bug
Euschistus servus
A dull brownish shield bug common throughout North America. It has a typical pentatomid shape with slightly pointed shou...
Brown-winged Rove Beetle
Tasgius ater
A large, uniformly dark rove beetle with subtly brownish elytra, closely related to Tasgius melanarius. It prefers more ...
Buff Ermine Moth
Spilosoma lutea
A creamy-buff moth with scattered dark spots and a distinctive dark streak along the forewing costa. It closely resemble...
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....
Buffalo Fly
Haematobia irritans exigua
A small blood-feeding fly closely related to the horn fly, found primarily in Southeast Asia and Australia. It is a majo...
Bush Fly
Musca vetustissima
Australia's most iconic nuisance fly, swarming around faces to feed on moisture. It breeds in cattle dung across the Aus...
Cabbage Looper
Trichoplusia ni
A pale green caterpillar that moves in a distinctive looping motion and feeds on brassica crops. The adult moth has a si...
Cabbage Looper Parasite
Microplitis plutellae
A small dark braconid wasp that attacks caterpillars of the diamondback moth and cabbage looper. A single larva emerges ...
Cabbage Moth
Mamestra brassicae
A mottled grey-brown moth with kidney-shaped and circular stigmata on the forewings. Its caterpillar is a serious pest o...
Cabbage Seed Weevil
Ceutorhynchus obstrictus
A small grey weevil that is a major pest of oilseed rape. Larvae feed inside seed pods, consuming developing seeds. Caus...
Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle
Psylliodes chrysocephala
A dark metallic flea beetle that is a major pest of oilseed rape across Europe. Larvae mine inside plant stems during wi...
Cabbage Stem Weevil
Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus
A grey weevil that mines inside brassica stems. Larvae tunnel through stems causing weakening. One of several Ceutorhync...
Cabbage Whitefly
Aleyrodes proletella
A small white-winged insect that infests brassica crops, weakening plants with sap feeding and honeydew production. Popu...
Canary Islands Admiral Butterfly
Vanessa vulcania
An endemic butterfly closely related to the red admiral, found in the Canary Islands and Madeira. It has darker coloring...
Carolina Mantis
Stagmomantis carolina
The most common native mantis species in the eastern United States, occurring in green, brown, and mottled forms. It is ...
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...
Carrion Parasitoid Wasp
Alysia manducator
A small braconid wasp that parasitizes blowfly larvae in carrion. An important part of the decomposition ecosystem. Fema...
Cassava Mealybug Parasitoid
Anagyrus lopezi
A tiny encyrtid wasp credited with saving Africa's cassava crop from devastating mealybug infestations. It was introduce...
Caterpillar Tachinid
Lydella thompsoni
A small gray parasitic fly that attacks European corn borer larvae. It was introduced to North America as a biological c...
Cattle Biting Louse
Bovicola bovis
A chewing louse that infests cattle worldwide, causing irritation and economic losses in livestock. Infestations worsen ...
Cattle Sucking Louse
Linognathus vituli
A blood-sucking louse found on calves and young cattle worldwide. It has a distinctive long narrow head adapted for pier...
Centaurus Beetle
Augosoma centaurus
The largest rhinoceros beetle in Africa with two prominent horns. Adults have a glossy reddish-brown to black coloration...
Central American Locust
Schistocerca piceifrons
A significant agricultural pest locust in Mexico and Central America. It periodically swarms and can devastate corn, bea...
Cereal Leaf Beetle
Oulema melanopus
A small beetle with metallic blue-black elytra and a red-orange thorax. Its larvae strip the upper leaf surface of cerea...
Chicken Body Louse
Menacanthus stramineus
The most damaging louse of domestic poultry, feeding on feathers, skin, and blood. Heavy infestations cause feather loss...
Chilean Green Lacewing
Chrysoperla externa
The most common green lacewing in South America with a broad distribution. Extensively used for biological control in Br...
Chinese Firefly
Pyrocoelia rufa
A large Asian firefly with a bright orange-red thorax and powerful bioluminescent glow. It is commonly seen near streams...
Chinese Oak Silk Moth
Antheraea pernyi
A large tawny-brown silk moth with prominent translucent eyespots on each wing. It has been cultivated for thousands of ...
Chinese Rose Beetle
Adoretus sinicus
A small nocturnal scarab that is a major agricultural pest in Hawaii. It skeletonizes the leaves of over 250 host plant ...
Chrysomelid Leaf Beetle
Chrysolina staphylaea
A small, strongly convex beetle with dark reddish-brown to almost black coloration and a smooth, shiny surface. It is on...
Cicatricosus Scarab
Scarabaeus cicatricosus
A medium-sized dark roller with a rough, pitted exoskeleton that gives it a scarred appearance. It inhabits coastal sand...
Cliff Tiger Beetle
Cicindela germanica
A small, dark green tiger beetle with faint pale markings found on exposed clay and chalk slopes. It has declined severe...
Clouded Yellow
Colias croceus
A fast-flying bright orange-yellow butterfly with black wing borders. A pale female form called helice has greenish-whit...
Clover Seed Weevil
Tychius picirostris
A small, densely scaled weevil that feeds on clover seeds. Larvae develop inside individual seed pods. An important pest...
Clown Beetle
Hister unicolor
A small, shiny black beetle with a compact, rounded body. It is a predator of fly larvae found in dung and decaying matt...
Coccygomimus Wasp
Pimpla turionellae
A cosmopolitan black ichneumonid used in biological control of pine shoot moths. Females sting and paralyze host pupae b...
Cockchafer
Melolontha melolontha
A large, clumsy-flying chafer beetle that emerges en masse on warm May evenings. Its white C-shaped larvae are familiar ...
Coconut Hispine Beetle
Brontispa longissima
An elongate, flattened beetle with a dark head and thorax and paler brown elytra. It is a serious pest of coconut palms ...
Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
Oryctes rhinoceros
A major pest of coconut palms across tropical Asia with a single prominent horn. Adults bore into the crown of palms, ca...
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...
Coffee Berry Borer
Hypothenemus hampei
A tiny, dark brown beetle that bores into coffee berries and is the most damaging pest of coffee worldwide. Females tunn...
Coffee Longhorn
Xylotrechus quadripes
A significant pest of arabica coffee in South and Southeast Asia, with zigzag yellow markings on dark brown elytra. Larv...
Colorado Potato Beetle
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
A major agricultural pest with yellow-orange elytra bearing ten black longitudinal stripes. Has developed resistance to ...
Columbia Silk Moth
Hyalophora columbia
A large reddish-brown silk moth closely related to the cecropia moth but found in northern bog habitats. Its cocoon is s...
Columbian Flower Planthopper
Poekilloptera phalaenoides
A large and spectacular flatid with broad white wings marked with black spots, closely resembling a moth. Groups of nymp...
Common Agonum
Agonum muelleri
A sleek, metallic greenish-bronze ground beetle with a smooth, oval body. It is one of the most common ground beetles in...
Common Anchomenus
Anchomenus dorsalis
A small, elegant ground beetle with metallic green elytra, a reddish-brown head, and pale legs. It is one of the most ef...
Common Bembidion
Bembidion lampros
A tiny, metallic bronze ground beetle that is one of the most abundant carabids in European farmland. Despite its small ...
Common Click Beetle
Agriotes sputator
A small, uniformly brown click beetle that is one of the most common wireworm pests in European agriculture. Adults are ...
Common Crane Fly
Tipula oleracea
A large gray-brown crane fly with extremely long fragile legs that often enters homes in autumn. Its larvae, called leat...
Common Gnat
Culex modestus
A small brownish mosquito widespread across Europe and Central Asia that breeds in marshes and rice paddies. It is a com...
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 Mime
Papilio clytia
A polymorphic swallowtail butterfly that exists in two main forms: one mimicking the toxic Common Crow and the other mim...
Common Pollen Beetle
Brassicogethes aeneus
A tiny iridescent green-black beetle that congregates in yellow flowers to feed on pollen. It is a major pest of oilseed...
Common Rustic
Mesapamea secalis
A highly variable common moth that forms a species complex with the Lesser Common Rustic. External appearance is unrelia...
Common Spotted Ladybird
Harmonia conformis
Australia's most common native ladybird, with a variable orange body covered in numerous black spots. It is an important...
Common Trichogramma Wasp
Trichogramma brassicae
One of the tiniest parasitoid wasps, it lays eggs inside moth eggs destroying them before hatching. It is mass-released ...
Common Yellow Ichneumon
Ichneumon stramentor
A bright yellow and black ichneumon wasp found across central Europe. It parasitizes pupae of cutworm and dart moths in ...
Comoros Islands Fruit Beetle
Goliathus goliatus comorensis
A large fruit chafer beetle found in the Comoros Islands of the Indian Ocean. Adults visit flowering and fruiting trees....
Conifer Brown Lacewing
Hemerobius pini
A small brown lacewing closely associated with pine trees across Europe. Larvae are specialist predators of pine aphids....
Copidosoma Polyembryonic Wasp
Copidosoma floridanum
A remarkable parasitoid in which a single egg divides into thousands of genetically identical embryos inside a moth cate...
Copper-Bottom Blow Fly
Lucilia cuprina
A metallic green-gold blow fly that is the most destructive cause of sheep blowfly strike in Australia and South Africa....
Coppery Sweat Bee
Augochloropsis sumptuosa
A stout metallic bee with brilliant coppery-green iridescence found across South America. It is a solitary ground-nestin...
Coppery Tunneler
Onthophagus ferox
A small, coppery-brown tunneling dung beetle native to Africa, now established in Australia. Males have a pair of backwa...
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...
Corn Earworm
Helicoverpa zea
A highly polyphagous moth whose caterpillars feed inside corn ears, tomato fruits, and cotton bolls. It is one of the co...
Corn Earworm Egg Parasitoid
Trichogramma pretiosum
A microscopic egg parasitoid wasp used extensively against cotton bollworm and corn earworm. It is the most commercially...
Corn Flea Beetle
Chaetocnema pulicaria
A very small, shiny black to bronze flea beetle with a compact, oval body. It vectors Stewart's wilt bacterium, making i...
Corn Planthopper
Peregrinus maidis
A cosmopolitan planthopper pest of maize with a yellowish-brown body. It transmits maize mosaic virus and maize stripe v...
Cotesia Congregata
Cotesia congregata
A gregarious endoparasitoid whose larvae emerge en masse from hornworm caterpillars to spin white cocoons on the host's ...
Cotesia Glomerata Wasp
Cotesia glomerata
A small gregarious parasitoid wasp that attacks cabbage white butterfly caterpillars. Dozens of larvae develop inside a ...
Cottonwood Leaf Beetle
Chrysomela scripta
A variable beetle with pale yellow elytra marked with dark elongated spots and streaks. It is a common defoliator of cot...
Cowpea Weevil
Callosobruchus maculatus
A small, reddish-brown to dark beetle with mottled elytra and a prominent pygidium bearing two dark spots. It is one of ...
Dahlia Longhorn
Agapanthia dahli
A medium-sized longhorn with dense olive-green pubescence and a prominent yellow dorsal stripe on the pronotum. It is wi...
Dark Arches Moth
Apamea monoglypha
A large, dark brown moth with complex darker markings and pale stigmata. It is one of the largest and most frequently tr...
Dark Giant Horse Fly
Tabanus sudeticus
The largest horse fly in the British Isles, dark brown with a robust build. Females deliver an extremely painful bite to...
Dark Rove Beetle
Tachyporus nitidulus
A small, shiny dark brown rove beetle with a characteristic boat-shaped body. It is incredibly numerous in northern Euro...
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 ...
Death Head Hawk Moth
Acherontia lachesis
An Asian death head moth that squeaks loudly and raids bee hives for honey....
Death Head Hawkmoth
Acherontia atropos
Famous for the skull-like pattern on its thorax. Can emit a loud squeak when disturbed. Raids beehives by mimicking bee ...
Dermestid Beetle
Dermestes maculatus
A small dark beetle with white undersides used by museums and taxidermists to clean skeletons. Larvae are covered in bri...
Desert Locust
Schistocerca gregaria
Forms enormous swarms of billions that devastate crops across Africa and Asia. A single swarm can cover 1,200 square km ...
Diamondback Eumolpid
Colaspis brunnea
A small, oblong beetle with a pale brown to yellowish body and rows of punctures on the elytra. Larvae are known as grap...
Diamondback Moth
Plutella xylostella
A tiny grayish moth with a diamond-shaped pattern along its back when wings are folded. It is the most destructive pest ...
Diamondback Moth Parasite
Diadegma insulare
A small parasitoid that is the most important natural enemy of the diamondback moth on brassica crops. It lays a single ...
Diamondback Moth Parasitoid
Diadegma semiclausum
A small ichneumon wasp that is the most important natural enemy of the diamondback moth, a major global brassica pest. F...
Dibrachys Pupal Parasite
Dibrachys cavus
A gregarious parasitoid wasp that attacks the pupae and cocoons of many different insect hosts. It is a generalist and s...
Dichotomius Dung Beetle
Dichotomius carolinus
A large, robust black tunneling dung beetle with a distinctive bifurcate (forked) horn in males. Females have a transver...
Differential Grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
A large spur-throated grasshopper recognized by the herringbone pattern on its hind femora. It is a significant agricult...
Digitonthophagus Dung Beetle
Digitonthophagus gazella
A small to medium, tan to brown tunneling dung beetle originally from Africa, now among the most widely distributed dung...
Dock Leaf Weevil
Rhinoncus pericarpius
A small grey-brown weevil found on dock and sorrel plants. Larvae mine inside dock stems. One of several weevil species ...
Dock Sawfly
Ametastegia glabrata
A small, shiny dark green to black sawfly with pale legs. Larvae are pale green caterpillar-like grubs that feed on dock...
Dor Rove Beetle
Ontholestes murinus
A large, mottled gray and brown rove beetle commonly found on dung and carrion. Its speckled pattern provides camouflage...
Dung Beetle
Scarabaeus sacer
Sacred to ancient Egyptians who associated them with the sun god Ra. They roll balls of dung for food and breeding. Navi...
Dung Beetle (Rainbow)
Phanaeus vindex
One of the most beautiful dung beetles with iridescent metallic copper, green, and blue coloring. Males have a prominent...
Dusky Click Beetle
Agriotes obscurus
A dull dark brown click beetle with dense pubescence and subtle elytral striations. The larvae are significant wireworm ...
East Asian Pheropsophus Bombardier
Pheropsophus jessoensis
A large Asian bombardier beetle with an orange head and pronotum and dark blue-black elytra. It is the largest bombardie...
Eggplant Flea Beetle
Epitrix fuscula
A small dark beetle that creates dense shothole feeding damage on eggplant and potato leaves. Heavy infestations can stu...
Egyptian Mantis
Miomantis paykullii
A small to medium green mantis native to Africa that has become established in parts of the southern United States. Fema...
Elegant Bush Cricket
Euconocephalus nasutus
A large cone-headed katydid with bright green coloring and a sharply pointed head. It is attracted to lights at night an...
Elegant Grasshopper
Zonocerus elegans
A strikingly colorful grasshopper with green, yellow, black, and orange warning patterns. It feeds on toxic plants and i...
Eri Silk Moth
Samia ricini
A large domesticated silk moth with chocolate-brown wings bearing crescent-shaped eyespots. It produces a durable white ...
Eucalyptus Psyllid
Blastopsylla occidentalis
An Australian psyllid that has become invasive in eucalyptus plantations worldwide. Nymphs produce distinctive white ler...
Eucalyptus Tortoise Beetle
Paropsis charybdis
A pale yellowish-brown beetle with dark spots on the elytra and a characteristic domed tortoise-like shape. It is a majo...
Eupeodes Hoverfly
Eupeodes corollae
A common small hoverfly with variable yellow comma-shaped markings on the abdomen. It is a migratory species and importa...
European Corn Borer
Ostrinia nubilalis
A small yellowish-brown moth that is one of the most destructive crop pests in the world. Larvae bore into corn stalks, ...
European Corn Borer Braconid
Macrocentrus cingulum
A slender parasitoid wasp introduced to North America to control the European corn borer moth. It lays polyembryonic egg...
European Corn Borer Egg Parasitoid
Trichogramma ostriniae
A tiny egg parasitoid wasp native to Asia and introduced to North America for corn borer control. It searches corn leave...
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 Lygus Bug
Lygus rugulipennis
A variable greenish to reddish-brown plant bug that is a major pest of strawberries and lettuce in Europe. It has a char...
European Melittid
Melitta leporina
A medium-sized oligolectic bee that specializes on legume flowers, particularly alfalfa and clovers. It nests in the gro...
European Pine Sawfly
Neodiprion sertifer
A common defoliator of pines in Europe and an invasive pest in North America. Larvae feed gregariously on older needles ...
European Seedcorn Ground Beetle
Zabrus tenebrioides
An unusual ground beetle that is herbivorous as an adult, feeding on cereal crops. Larvae are predatory and live in soil...
European Spruce Sawfly
Gilpinia hercyniae
A moderately sized sawfly with dark brown to black coloring and pectinate antennae in males. Larvae are green with white...
European Wheat Stem Sawfly
Cephus pygmeus
A stem-boring sawfly pest of wheat and other cereals throughout Europe and western Asia. It has also established in part...
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...
Face Fly
Musca autumnalis
A non-biting muscid fly that feeds on secretions around the eyes and nose of cattle. It is a mechanical vector of the ca...
Fall Armyworm
Spodoptera frugiperda
A highly destructive migratory moth whose caterpillars can devastate entire corn and cereal fields in days. It has recen...
False Stable Fly
Muscina stabulans
A robust fly resembling a large house fly with reddish-yellow patches at the wing base. Larvae can be facultative predat...
Farmyard Midge
Culicoides nubeculosus
A tiny biting midge that breeds in mud contaminated by dung or sewage. Adults suck blood from horses and cattle. Can tra...
Femme Fatale Firefly
Photuris versicolor
A predatory firefly that mimics the flash patterns of other species to lure males as prey. Females are aggressive hunter...
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,...
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...
Flame Carpet Moth
Xanthorhoe designata
A small, attractive geometer moth with pinkish-brown and dark banding creating a flame-like pattern. Associated with cru...
Flat Silphid Beetle
Silpha tristis
A flattened, all-black silphid beetle with three raised ridges on each wing case. It feeds on snails and caterpillars ra...
Flat-Headed Dung Beetle
Paragymnopleurus maurus
A medium-sized shiny black roller dung beetle with a distinctively flat clypeal margin. It is highly active during the d...
Flea Beetle
Altica oleracea
Tiny jumping beetles with enlarged hind femora for leaping. Named for their flea-like jumping ability. Many species are ...
Formosan Green Lacewing
Chrysopa formosa
A widespread Asian lacewing often found in lowland habitats. Recognized by dark markings on the face and vertex....
Four-spotted Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus quadripunctatus
A medium-sized dung beetle with four distinctive pale spots on its dark elytra. It is one of the few Helictopleurus spec...
Fourteen-spotted Leaf Beetle
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
A small yellow and black ladybird with a distinctive checkerboard pattern of rectangular black spots. It is an effective...
Frit Fly
Oscinella frit
A tiny fly that is a major pest of oat crops and ryegrass. Larvae bore into plant stems causing 'dead heart'. Named from...
Frosted Pine Aphid
Cinara pilicornis
A large brown aphid covered in waxy powder that forms colonies on spruce twigs. It produces copious honeydew that suppor...
Gallinipper Mosquito
Psorophora ciliata
One of the largest mosquitoes in North America, with shaggy legs covered in dark and pale scales. It delivers an excepti...
Gazelle Scarab
Onthophagus gazella
A small dung beetle originally from Africa, now established across multiple continents. It is one of the most widely int...
Giant Amazonian Ground Beetle
Calosoma alternans
A large Neotropical caterpillar hunter with dark elytra bearing rows of metallic pits. It is an important natural enemy ...
Giant Red-winged Grasshopper
Tropidacris cristata
One of the largest grasshoppers in the world, with a wingspan exceeding 20 cm. Its hindwings are vivid red with a dark b...
Giant Shield Mantis
Rhombodera basalis
A large, robust mantis with a distinctive broad shield-shaped pronotum and vivid green coloring. It is one of the most i...
Giant Silk Moth
Hyalophora euryalus
A large western North American silk moth with reddish-brown wings featuring bold white crescent markings and a red-and-w...
Glacier Beetle
Nebria castanea
A chestnut-brown ground beetle inhabiting the edges of glaciers and permanent snowfields. It feeds on wind-blown insects...
Gladiolus Thrips
Thrips simplex
A specialist pest of gladiolus and related plants, causing silvery streaking on leaves and flower damage. It can survive...
Glover's Silk Moth
Hyalophora columbia gloveri
A large silk moth from the western Rocky Mountain region with reddish-brown wings and white crescent-shaped spots. It is...
Glowworm Beetle
Phengodes plumosa
A soft-bodied beetle whose larviform females glow with paired green lanterns along their body. Males are winged but do n...
Glyptomorpha Braconid
Glyptomorpha deesae
A small parasitoid wasp that attacks bruchid beetle larvae inside stored legume seeds. It has been studied as a biologic...
Goatweed Leafwing
Anaea andria
A bright orange butterfly whose angular wing shape and mottled brown underside create a perfect dead-leaf disguise when ...
Golden Dung Fly
Scathophaga stercoraria
A common furry yellow fly that gathers on fresh cow dung to mate and hunt....
Golden Ground Beetle
Carabus auratus
A large, brilliant metallic green or golden ground beetle with ridged elytra. It is a voracious predator of slugs and ca...
Golden Net Ground Beetle
Carabus auratus festivus
A subspecies of the golden ground beetle with particularly vivid metallic green and gold coloring and prominent elytral ...
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 Tachinid Fly
Archytas marmoratus
A large bristly parasitic fly with golden-brown hairs found across the Americas. It parasitizes armyworm and cutworm cat...
Golden Tortoise Beetle
Charidotella sexpunctata
Looks like a tiny golden jewel. Can change color from gold to reddish-brown by controlling moisture in microscopic layer...
Grain Aphid
Sitobion avenae
A major pest of cereal crops in Europe and other temperate regions. It feeds on ears and leaves, reducing grain quality ...
Grain Thrips
Limothrips cerealium
A widespread pest of cereal crops including wheat, barley, and oats. Adults are dark brown and migrate in swarms during ...
Great Capricorn Beetle
Cerambyx cerdo
One of Europe's largest longhorn beetles, with antennae longer than its body. Larvae bore deep galleries into living oak...
Great Eggfly
Hypolimnas bolina
A striking tropical butterfly in which males are jet black with large iridescent white-blue spots. Females are variable ...
Great Spangled Fritillary
Speyeria cybele
Large orange butterfly with heavy black markings and silver spots on the hindwing underside. Common across much of North...
Green Bean Stick Insect
Diapherodes gigantea
A large, thick-bodied bright green stick insect from the Caribbean. Females are heavy and wingless while males are slend...
Green Bottle Fly
Lucilia sericata
A brilliant metallic green fly with large red compound eyes. Medically, its sterile larvae are used in maggot debridemen...
Green Lacewing
Chrysoperla carnea
Delicate green insects with lace-like wings and golden eyes. Larvae are ferocious predators nicknamed "aphid lions." Wid...
Green Metallic Tunneler
Onitis alexis
A medium-sized tunneling dung beetle with a metallic green pronotum and dark brown elytra. Males have an enlarged protho...
Green Shield Bug
Palomena prasina prasina
A common bright green shield-shaped bug that turns bronze-brown before hibernation. A distinctive spring and autumn inse...
Green-legged Sawfly
Perga dorsalis
An Australian pergid whose larvae feed gregariously on eucalyptus foliage. Heavy defoliation can stress and weaken young...
Gulf Fritillary
Dione vanillae
Bright orange wings with black markings above and elongated silver spots below. Despite its name, it belongs to the pass...
Hadda Beetle
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
A herbivorous ladybug with a pale orange body bearing 28 black spots, unlike most ladybugs which are predatory. It is a ...
Hagen's Green Lacewing
Leucochrysa pavida
A large neotropical lacewing with broad wings and pale green coloring. Found from Mexico through Central America to Braz...
Hairy-legged Mining Bee
Melitta tricincta
A rare and declining bee that is a strict specialist on red bartsia flowers. It has distinctive hairy hind legs used for...
Hanging Thief Robber Fly
Diogmites platypterus
A slender, elongate robber fly that hangs from vegetation by its front legs while feeding. It has long dangling legs and...
Harlequin Bug
Murgantia histrionica
A boldly patterned stink bug with striking black and orange or red markings arranged in a harlequin pattern. It is a sig...
Hawaiian Easy Yellow-faced Bee
Hylaeus facilis
An endemic Hawaiian bee found across several of the main Hawaiian islands. It is a generalist pollinator that visits a v...
Headlight Click Beetle
Ignelater havaniensis
A medium-sized bioluminescent click beetle from Cuba with bright greenish pronotal lights. It belongs to a genus of lumi...
Heart and Dart
Agrotis exclamationis
An extremely common brown moth named for the heart and dart-shaped markings on its forewing. It is often the most abunda...
Heike Firefly
Luciola lateralis
A Japanese firefly associated with rice paddies, smaller than the Genji firefly. It flashes more rapidly and is found in...
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 ...
Hemiandrus Earwig
Hemimerus talpoides
A blind, wingless earwig that lives exclusively as a commensal on giant pouched rats. Its cerci are modified into short,...
Hessian Fly
Mayetiola destructor
A tiny dark gall midge that is one of the most destructive pests of wheat and barley worldwide. Adults resemble small da...
Hog Louse
Haematopinus suis
The largest louse found on domestic animals, exclusively parasitizing pigs. It feeds on blood and is most commonly found...
Horn Fly
Haematobia irritans
A small blood-feeding fly that spends almost its entire life on cattle. It clusters at the base of horns and along the b...
Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus taurus
The strongest insect on Earth relative to body size — can pull 1,141 times its own body weight. Males have curved horns ...
Horse Stomach Bot Fly
Gasterophilus intestinalis
A bee-like fly that glues eggs to horse leg hairs where they are ingested during grooming. Larvae attach to the stomach ...
Horse Sucking Louse
Haematopinus asini
A large blood-sucking louse found on horses, donkeys, and mules. It prefers areas with long hair such as the mane, forel...
House Fly Pupal Parasitoid
Muscidifurax raptor
A minute parasitoid wasp that develops inside house fly and stable fly pupae. It is sold commercially for biological fly...
Indian Blister Beetle
Mylabris pustulata
A striking beetle with black elytra marked with bright red or orange bands and spots. It produces cantharidin, a powerfu...
Indian Cicada
Huechys sanguinea
A brilliantly red and black cicada found across South and Southeast Asia. Unlike most cicadas, it is diurnal and conspic...
Indian Common Firefly
Luciola gorhami
A widespread firefly across the Indian subcontinent, common in rural areas and villages. It produces rapid greenish flas...
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 Fungus-growing Termite
Odontotermes obesus
A major fungus-cultivating termite pest in the Indian subcontinent. It causes significant damage to crops, trees, and wo...
Indian Green Lacewing
Chrysoperla zastrowi
A green lacewing commonly found across the Indian subcontinent. Widely studied for biocontrol of cotton and rice pests....
Indian Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa krishnani
A mole cricket endemic to the Indian subcontinent found in irrigated crop fields. It damages seedling roots in rice nurs...
Indian Mound Termite
Odontotermes wallonensis
A common mound-building fungus termite in the Indian subcontinent. Workers forage extensively in agricultural fields, of...
Indian Stink Bug
Bagrada hilaris
A small, shield-shaped bug with a distinctive black and orange pattern. It is a serious pest of cruciferous crops, parti...
Indian Subterranean Termite
Coptotermes heimi
A destructive subterranean termite common across the Indian subcontinent. It attacks wooden structures, crops, and livin...
Indian Tse Tse-like Fly
Hippobosca maculata
A flattened, leathery ectoparasitic fly that feeds on the blood of horses, cattle, and dogs. It has powerful claws for g...
Indian Tussock Moth
Euproctis lunata
A yellow-brown moth with a distinctive dark crescent marking on the forewings. Its brightly colored, hairy caterpillars ...
Introduced Pine Sawfly
Diprion similis
A European sawfly introduced to North America that feeds on white pine and other five-needled pines. Larvae feed gregari...
Italian Locust
Calliptamus italicus
A medium-sized locust with pink hindwings found across southern Europe and Central Asia. It favors dry, warm habitats an...
Ivory-Spotted Dung Beetle
Euoniticellus pallipes
A small, pale brown tunneling dung beetle with ivory-colored legs. Native to Africa, it has been introduced to several c...
Jamaican Click Beetle
Pyrophorus noctilucus
The brightest bioluminescent insect known. Indigenous peoples used them as temporary lanterns by placing several in a ja...
Jamaican Field Cricket
Gryllus assimilis
A robust field cricket common throughout Jamaica and the Caribbean. Males produce loud chirping songs at night to attrac...
Japanese Blister Beetle
Epicauta gorhami
A black and orange striped blister beetle found in Japan and Korea. Known as 'tsuchi-hanmyo.' Contains cantharidin, a bl...
Japanese Dung Beetle
Copris pecuarius
A tunneling dung beetle found in Japan and Korea that provisions underground brood chambers with dung balls. Males have ...
Japanese Encephalitis Mosquito
Culex tritaeniorhynchus
A medium-sized brownish mosquito with a pale band on the proboscis that is the primary vector of Japanese encephalitis v...
Japanese Green Stink Bug
Nezara antennata
A bright green shield bug common across Japan and Korea. Changes color to brown in autumn as a seasonal camouflage adapt...
Javanese Mole Cricket
Gryllotalpa orientalis
An East Asian mole cricket found in lowland rice paddies and moist agricultural soils across Japan, China, and Korea. It...
Jewel Bug
Chrysocoris stollii
A dazzling metallic green and red shield bug from South and Southeast Asia. Its brilliant iridescence makes it one of th...
Jewel Wasp Pteromalid
Nasonia vitripennis
A tiny jewel wasp that parasitizes the pupae of blowflies, flesh flies, and house flies. It is one of the most important...
Keeled Treehopper
Entylia carinata
A small, flattened treehopper with a pronounced dorsal keel running along its pronotum. It is widespread across the Amer...
Korean Malaria Mosquito
Anopheles sinensis
A medium-sized mosquito with spotted wings that breeds in rice paddies across East Asia. It is a vector of Plasmodium vi...
Kudzu Bug
Megacopta cribraria
A small, olive-green, globular beetle that feeds on kudzu and soybeans. It was first detected in North America in 2009....
Lace Bug with Maternal Care
Gargaphia solani
A subsocial lace bug found on nightshade plants where mothers actively guard their eggs and nymphs. Females stand over t...
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 Gold Rove Beetle
Staphylinus caesareus
A large and handsome rove beetle with golden pubescence on its thorax and bright orange abdominal bands. It is an aggres...
Large Poplar Longhorn
Saperda carcharias
A large grey-yellow lamiin covered in dense ochre pubescence, found across Eurasia in poplar-dominated habitats. It is a...
Large Scabious Mining Bee
Andrena hattorfiana
One of the largest European mining bees with a striking red abdomen loaded with pink pollen. It is a specialist of field...
Large Turkey Louse
Chelopistes meleagridis
The largest louse found on domestic turkeys, feeding on feather material. It prefers the breast and thigh feathers of it...
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 Underwing
Noctua pronuba
One of the most abundant moths in Europe with bright yellow-orange hindwings bordered in black. It is strongly attracted...
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...
Leafhopper Strepsipteran
Halictophagus calcaratus
A tiny strepsipteran that parasitizes leafhoppers in the family Cicadellidae. The first-instar larvae are among the smal...
Lesser Cattle Grub
Hypoderma lineatum
A hairy, bee-like fly slightly smaller than H. bovis, whose larvae also parasitize cattle. Unlike H. bovis, its larvae m...
Lesser Death's-head Hawk Moth
Acherontia styx
An Asian relative of the death's-head hawk moth, similarly marked with a skull pattern on the thorax. It is slightly sma...
Lesser Leaf-Cutter Ant
Acromyrmex octospinosus
A smaller leaf-cutter ant species covered in spiny tubercles on its body. It forms more modest colonies than Atta but is...
Lily Thrips
Liothrips vaneeckei
A dark, stout thrips that damages lily bulbs in storage and in the field. It feeds between bulb scales causing brown sun...
Lime-speck Pug
Eupithecia centaureata
A small whitish moth with a distinctive dark spot on each forewing. One of the most widespread pug moths. Larvae feed on...
Lined Click Beetle
Agriotes lineatus
A small, brown click beetle with pale stripes along its elytra. Its wireworm larvae are major pests of potatoes and cere...
Lined Rove Beetle
Tachinus signatus
A medium-sized rove beetle with distinctly patterned elytra bearing lighter margins. It is commonly found in fungal habi...
Little Fire Ant
Wasmannia auropunctata
A tiny golden-brown ant with a painful sting far out of proportion to its size. It is one of the most destructive invasi...
Loblolly Pine Sawfly
Neodiprion taedae linearis
A pine sawfly from the southeastern United States whose yellowish-green larvae feed on the needles of loblolly and other...
Locust Borer
Megacyllene robiniae
A striking yellow-and-black wasp mimic that attacks black locust trees in North America. Adults appear in autumn and are...
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-tailed Skipper
Urbanus proteus
A striking skipper with iridescent blue-green body and wing bases and long tail-like projections on the hindwings. It is...
Longhorn Harlequin Beetle
Aristobia approximator
A large longhorn beetle with attractive pale grey elytra marked with dark bands and spots in a harlequin pattern. Antenn...
Longicorn Beetle
Phoracantha semipunctata
A brown and cream longhorn beetle with extremely long antennae that infests stressed eucalypts. It has become a signific...
Louse Fly
Hippobosca equina
A flattened bloodsucking fly parasite of horses and cattle with powerful clawed legs for clinging to fur. Adults are inc...
Macropis Cuckoo Bee
Epeoloides coecutiens
A rare cleptoparasitic bee that targets nests of Macropis oil-collecting bees. It was once thought extinct in North Amer...
Madagascan Headlight Beetle
Heteronychus arator madagascariensis
A dark scarab beetle found in Madagascar that is an agricultural pest of grasses. Larvae develop in soil feeding on plan...
Malabar Flower Mantis
Creobroter meleagris
A beautifully marked flower mantis from southern India with speckled wings. It is commonly found in the Western Ghats bi...
Malagasy Lacewing
Chrysoperla madagascariensis
A delicate green insect with large, transparent wings bearing a fine network of veins. Adults have bright golden eyes an...
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 Green Lacewing
Mallada basalis
A tropical Asian lacewing with a greenish body and dark wing venation. Commercially reared in Taiwan for pest control in...
Maldives Coconut Moth
Opisina arenosella
A small moth whose larvae feed on coconut palm leaves across the Indian Ocean. It is a significant pest in the Maldives ...
Marmalade Hoverfly
Episyrphus balteatus balteatus
A common hoverfly with distinctive double black bands on an orange abdomen. One of the most effective migrant pollinator...
Mediterranean Fruit Fly
Ceratitis capitata
A small colorful fruit fly with patterned wings and a yellowish body. It is one of the world's most destructive agricult...
Mega Mantis
Plistospilota guineensis
One of the largest mantis species in the world reaching up to 17cm. It is green with a massive thorax and powerful legs....
Melon Fly
Zeugodacus cucurbitae
A reddish-yellow fruit fly that is a major pest of melons, cucumbers, and other cucurbits. It has spread from Asia to be...
Melon Thrips
Thrips palmi
A pale yellow thrips and serious pest of cucurbits and solanaceous crops. It is a quarantine pest in many countries....
Metallic Ectatomma
Ectatomma ruidum
A medium-sized ant with a metallic sheen common in neotropical lowland habitats. It forages individually on the ground a...
Metallic Hister Beetle
Saprinus semistriatus
A small beetle with a metallic blue-green sheen found on carrion and sun-dried carcasses. It is frequently used in foren...
Mexican Bean Beetle
Epilachna varivestis
One of the few plant-feeding ladybird beetles, recognized by its copper color and eight black spots per wing cover. Both...
Monarch Butterfly
Danaus plexippus
Famous for its incredible multi-generational migration spanning up to 4,800 km between Canada and Mexico. Orange wings w...
Mound-building Termite
Macrotermes gilvus
A fungus-growing termite widespread across Southeast Asia that builds subterranean to semi-subterranean nests with low m...
Mustard Beetle
Phaedon cochleariae
A small metallic blue-black beetle that feeds on watercress, mustard and other crucifers. Both adults and larvae damage ...
Myiasis-Causing Flesh Fly
Wohlfahrtia vigil
A large flesh fly found in North America that causes obligate dermal myiasis in small animals including rabbits, mink, a...
Neotropical Green Stink Bug
Nezara viridula
A bright green shield bug with a wide, flat body and triangular scutellum. It is one of the most destructive agricultura...
Neotropical Lace Bug
Leptopharsa heveae
A tiny transparent-winged lace bug that feeds on rubber trees in South American plantations. Its wings have an intricate...
Neotropical Shield Bug
Edessa meditabunda
A medium-sized green and brown shield-shaped stink bug common in South American agriculture. It is an important pest of ...
Nippon Green Lacewing
Chrysoperla nipponensis
An East Asian member of the carnea species group found in Japan and Korea. Studied extensively for rice paddy pest manag...
Nisotra Flea Beetle
Nisotra uniformis
A small, yellowish-brown flea beetle that is the most important pest of jute in South Asia. Adults create shot-holes in ...
Noon Fly
Mesembrina meridiana
A large stocky black fly with bright orange wing bases. It basks in sunshine on walls and fences at midday....
Nordic Dor Beetle
Geotrupes stercorarius
A large, rounded, metallic blue-black dung beetle with ridged elytra. Adults dig deep burrows beneath animal dung for eg...
Northern Corn Rootworm
Diabrotica barberi
A pale green beetle whose larvae attack corn root systems. It can survive crop rotation by extending egg diapause for tw...
Nose Bot Fly of Horses
Gasterophilus haemorrhoidalis
A dark-bodied bot fly that deposits reddish-black eggs around the lips of horses. Larvae penetrate the lip mucosa and mi...
Old World Bollworm
Helicoverpa armigera
One of the most destructive agricultural pests globally, attacking over 200 crop species. Larvae bore into cotton bolls,...
Olive Fruit Fly
Bactrocera oleae
A small fly that exclusively attacks olive fruits, causing billions in crop losses. Larvae tunnel through olive flesh, r...
Onion Thrips
Thrips tabaci
A cosmopolitan pest of onions, garlic, and many other crops. It can reproduce both sexually and parthenogenetically and ...
Orange Wheat Blossom Midge
Sitodiplosis mosellana
A small orange-colored gall midge that lays eggs in wheat flowers. Its bright orange larvae feed on developing wheat gra...
Oriental Fruit Fly
Bactrocera dorsalis
A highly polyphagous tropical fruit fly attacking over 400 host plant species. It is one of the most economically damagi...
Ornate Shieldbug
Eurydema ornata
A vividly patterned shield bug with highly variable red, orange, white, or yellow markings on a black or metallic blue b...
Owl Butterfly
Caligo memnon
A very large tropical butterfly with enormous owl-eye patterns on the underside of its hindwings. The uppersides are dee...
Ox Beetle
Strategus aloeus
A large robust dark brown beetle with three forward-pointing horns on the males pronotum. It is attracted to lights in t...
Pale Click Beetle
Agrypnus murinus
A distinctive European click beetle covered in a mosaic pattern of grey and brown scales giving it excellent camouflage ...
Pale-bordered Field Cockroach
Pseudomops septentrionalis
A small outdoor cockroach with a distinctive pale border around its dark pronotum. It is an active daytime flier unlike ...
Panamanian Giant Ground Beetle
Calosoma granulatum
A large South American caterpillar hunter with coarsely sculptured dark elytra and metallic reflections. It is an import...
Parasitic Bee Fly
Winthemia rufopicta
A medium-sized tachinid fly that parasitizes armyworm caterpillars and other crop pest larvae. It is found across multip...
Pea Weevil
Bruchus pisorum
A small brownish beetle that lays eggs on developing pea pods. The larva eats its way into a single pea and develops ent...
Pearly-banded Bee
Nomia melanderi
A ground-nesting bee with pearly white abdominal bands vital for alfalfa pollination. Large nesting aggregations in alka...
Pecuarius Onitis
Onitis pecuarius
A medium-sized, dark brown to black tunneling dung beetle with strong forelegs. It is a nocturnal species that construct...
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...
Pennsylvania Ambush Bug
Phymata pennsylvanica
A small chunky yellow and brown bug with thickened raptorial forelegs that hides in flower heads to ambush pollinators. ...
Pennsylvania Firefly
Photuris pennsylvanica
A common firefly of the eastern United States that produces a green-yellow bioluminescent flash. Adults are soft-bodied ...
Pennsylvania Ground Beetle
Harpalus pensylvanicus
One of the most common ground beetles in North American croplands. It is an omnivorous species that feeds on both seeds ...
Pergid Leaf Miner
Phylacteophaga froggatti
A small sawfly whose larvae create blister-like mines in eucalyptus leaves. Adults are small and brownish with clear win...
Philippine Milk Termite
Coptotermes vastator
The most destructive termite species in the Philippines, causing severe damage to buildings, trees, and crops. Colonies ...
Pied Hoverfly
Scaeva pyrastri
A large, elegant hoverfly with white crescent-shaped markings on a dark abdomen. It is a strong migrant and beneficial a...
Pine Bark Adelgid
Pineus strobi
An adelgid that feeds on the bark of eastern white pine, producing white waxy wool on trunks and branches. Heavy infesta...
Pine Emperor Moth
Imbrasia cytherea
A large South African emperor moth with brown and cream banded wings. Its caterpillars can become significant defoliator...
Pine False Webworm
Acantholyda erythrocephala
An invasive European sawfly that defoliates pines in North America. Unlike typical sawflies, larvae are solitary and spi...
Pine Hawk-moth
Sphinx pinastri
A sleek grey hawk-moth with dark streaks that provide perfect camouflage against pine bark. It is strongly associated wi...
Pine Shoot Beetle
Tomicus piniperda
A bark beetle that breeds in pine logs and stumps, then feeds inside live pine shoots. It is an invasive pest in North A...
Pine Shoot Moth
Rhyacionia buoliana
A small bright orange moth with silver-grey crosslines on the forewings. Its larvae bore into the terminal shoots of you...
Pine Spittlebug
Aphrophora cribrata
A large spittlebug that feeds on pine and other conifers, producing masses of froth on branches. Heavy infestations can ...
Pine Webspinning Sawfly
Cephalcia arvensis
A flat-bodied sawfly with long antennae and dark coloring. Larvae live communally in silk webs spun among spruce needles...
Pine Weevil
Hylobius abietis
A dark brown weevil with patches of golden scales that is a major pest of young conifer plantations. Adults girdle the b...
Pink Bollworm
Pectinophora gossypiella
A small dark moth whose pink-tinged larvae bore into cotton bolls and damage the fibers and seeds. It has been one of th...
Pink-Spotted Lady Beetle
Coleomegilla maculata
An oblong, pink-red ladybird with twelve black spots found across North America. It is unusual among ladybirds because i...
Pink-Winged Stick Insect
Sipyloidea sipylus
A slender stick insect with small pink hindwings that are flashed when threatened. It reproduces readily by parthenogene...
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 ...
Polynesian Cicada
Raiateana oulietea
An island-endemic cicada found in French Polynesia with a slender dark body and clear wings. Its buzzing call can be hea...
Potato Leafhopper
Empoasca fabae
A small bright green leafhopper that causes hopperburn on potato, bean, and alfalfa leaves. It migrates northward each s...
Predatory Stink Bug
Eocanthecona furcellata
A medium-sized predatory shield bug used as a biological control agent in Asia and Australia. It feeds on caterpillars a...
Predatory Thrips
Aeolothrips intermedius
A beneficial predatory thrips that feeds on spider mites, other thrips, and small insects. It has distinctive banded win...
Pteromalus Pupal Wasp
Pteromalus puparum
A small metallic-green parasitoid that attacks butterfly and moth pupae, particularly those of cabbage whites. Multiple ...
Queen of Spain Fritillary
Issoria lathonia
A powerful-flying fritillary with large, brilliant silver spots covering the underside of its hindwings. It is a restles...
Ragwort Flea Beetle
Longitarsus jacobaeae
A small black flea beetle that feeds on ragwort plants. Successfully used as a biological control agent for invasive rag...
Raspberry Beetle
Byturus tomentosus
A small brownish-gold beetle whose larvae are the small white grubs found inside raspberries and blackberries....
Raspberry Cane Borer
Oberea bimaculata
A slender black longhorn with two prominent yellow spots on the pronotum, found across North America. It is a significan...
Red Cotton Bug
Dysdercus koenigii
A bright red and black true bug that stains cotton lint by piercing developing cotton bolls. Adults and nymphs aggregate...
Red Earth Termite
Odontotermes formosanus
A widespread fungus-growing termite in East and Southeast Asia that is a major structural and agricultural pest. Colonie...
Red Palm Weevil
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus
A large rusty-red weevil with a long curved rostrum and dark spots on the thorax. Its larvae bore deep into the trunks o...
Red Pumpkin Beetle
Aulacophora foveicollis
A uniformly bright orange-red beetle with fine punctures on the pronotum and smooth elytra. It is a highly destructive p...
Red-banded Stink Bug
Piezodorus guildinii
A green to yellowish stink bug with a distinctive reddish-brown band across the pronotum. It is a major pest of soybeans...
Red-legged Shieldback Ground Beetle
Badister bullatus
A small, attractively colored ground beetle with a reddish-orange head and legs contrasting with dark elytra. It is a sn...
Red-Lined Carrion Beetle
Necrodes surinamensis
A dark, flattened carrion beetle with reddish markings on the tips of its elytra. It is one of the first beetles to arri...
Red-Shouldered Aphodius
Aphodius rufipes
A medium-sized dweller dung beetle that is entirely black except for reddish-brown leg joints. It is strongly attracted ...
Red-Shouldered Ham Beetle
Carcinops pumilio
A tiny, shiny black hister beetle commonly found in poultry houses where it preys on house fly larvae. It is an importan...
Redheaded Pine Sawfly
Neodiprion lecontei
The most widely distributed pine sawfly in eastern North America. Larvae can completely defoliate young pines, sometimes...
Reunion Day Gecko Beetle
Cratopus murinus
A drab brownish weevil endemic to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. It is a common herbivore found on both native and ...
Riband Wave Moth
Idaea aversata
A small greyish moth occurring in both banded and plain forms. The banded form has a conspicuous dark central band acros...
Rice Stem Borer Egg Parasitoid
Trichogramma japonicum
A minute parasitoid wasp widely used in Asian rice paddies to control stem borer moths. It is mass-reared on factitious ...
Roesel's Bush-cricket
Roeseliana roeselii
A stocky bush-cricket with a distinctive pale border along the pronotum. Its song is a continuous high-pitched buzz. Mac...
Rosette Gall Midge
Dasineura urticae
A tiny midge that causes distinctive rosette galls on the tips of stinging nettles. The growing tip is stunted and swoll...
Ross's Web Spinner
Chelicerca rubra
A reddish-brown web spinner found in tropical Africa that builds silk tunnels on tree bark. It is one of the more bright...
Rugose Carrion Beetle
Thanatophilus rugosus
A small, dark silphid with heavily textured, rugose wing cases. It frequents sun-exposed carrion in open landscapes....
Rush Veneer Moth
Nomophila noctuella
A migratory snout moth with warm brown forewings and pale hindwings. It is a strong flier that regularly migrates northw...
Russian Wheat Aphid
Diuraphis noxia
A pale elongated aphid that causes leaf rolling and white streaking on wheat and barley. It injects toxins while feeding...
Sabre Wasp
Rhyssa persuasoria
The largest European ichneumon wasp, recognized by its black-and-white banded body. It parasitizes the larvae of wood wa...
Sagittarius Dung Beetle
Onthophagus sagittarius
A medium-sized dark brown tunneler with a distinctive arrow-shaped projection on the male head. It was introduced to Aus...
Samoan Rhinoceros Beetle
Scapanes australis
A large rhinoceros beetle found in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and parts of Samoa. Males have a large forked ...
Saratoga Spittlebug
Aphrophora saratogensis
A spittlebug that is a serious pest of young red pine plantations in North America. Its feeding causes branch dieback an...
Satellite Flesh Fly
Sarcophaga africa
A tropical flesh fly that deposits larvae on carcasses and open wounds. It can cause myiasis in livestock and occasional...
Saw-toothed Prionine
Dorysthenes buquetii
A large prionine beetle with strongly serrated antennae and a dark reddish-brown body, found across mainland Southeast A...
Say's Stink Bug
Chlorochroa sayi
A bright green stink bug common in arid and semi-arid habitats of western North America. It can be a significant pest of...
Sculptured Rove Beetle
Oxytelus sculptus
A tiny dung-associated rove beetle with a distinctly sculptured thorax and short elytra. It has become nearly cosmopolit...
Secondary Screwworm Fly
Cochliomyia macellaria
A blow fly that breeds in carrion and occasionally infests wounds in livestock. It is widely used in forensic studies in...
Senegalese Grasshopper
Oedaleus senegalensis
A small to medium grasshopper with an X-shaped marking on the pronotum and blue hindwings. It is an important crop pest ...
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Xestia c-nigrum
A grey-brown moth with a dark mark on the forewing resembling a Hebrew letter. It is a migratory species that regularly ...
Seven-Spot Ladybird
Coccinella septempunctata
The most common ladybird in Europe. Its bright red coloring with seven black spots warns predators of its bitter taste. ...
Seven-spotted Ladybird
Hippodamia variegata
A small, variably marked ladybird that is an important predator of aphids in agricultural settings. Often found in open,...
Shaft Louse
Menopon gallinae
A fast-moving louse found on the feather shafts of chickens and other poultry. It feeds primarily on feather barbs and c...
Shaggy Rove Beetle
Emus hirtus
A spectacular, large rove beetle covered in dense black and yellow fur-like pubescence, resembling a bumblebee. It is as...
Sheep Ked
Melophagus ovinus
A completely wingless, tick-like blood-sucking fly that lives permanently in sheep wool. Its flattened body and strong c...
Sheep Nose Bot Fly
Oestrus ovis
A parasitic fly that shoots live larvae into the nostrils of sheep and goats while in flight. Larvae develop inside the ...
Shuttle-shaped Dart Moth
Agrotis puta
A small, pale greyish-brown moth with a shuttle-shaped claviform stigma. Males and females show different color tones, w...
Silver Y
Autographa gamma
A migratory moth marked with a bright silvery Y or gamma symbol on each forewing. Billions migrate northward across Euro...
Sirex Woodwasp
Sirex noctilio
A large blue-black woodwasp that bores into pine trees to lay eggs. It injects a symbiotic fungus into the wood that fee...
Six-spotted Thrips
Scolothrips sexmaculatus
A tiny predatory thrips with three dark spots on each forewing. It is a valuable natural enemy of spider mites in agricu...
Skin Moth
Monopis laevigella
A small dark brown moth with a pale spot on each forewing that breeds in bird nests and animal remains. It is one of nat...
Skipper Butterfly
Epargyreus clarus
A stout-bodied butterfly with hooked antennae, brown wings with golden spots on the forewing, and a distinctive silver p...
Slave-Maker Ant
Temnothorax americanus
A tiny North American slave-making ant that raids colonies of closely related Temnothorax species. Workers have saber-li...
Slender Pigeon Louse
Columbicola columbae
A long slender louse found between the barbs of wing and tail feathers of pigeons and doves. It is one of the most studi...
Small Brown Planthopper
Laodelphax striatellus
A tiny brown-striped delphacid planthopper that vectors rice stripe virus and rice black-streaked dwarf virus. It has a ...
Small Ranunculus
Hecatera dysodea
A subtly attractive moth with pale grey-green wings marked with intricate darker patterns. It was once rare in Britain b...
Smelly Carpenter Ant
Dolichoderus thoracicus
A Southeast Asian dolichoderine ant that tends mealybugs inside shelters built from chewed plant material. It is a signi...
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...
Sonorensis Biting Midge
Culicoides sonorensis
A small biting midge that is the primary vector of bluetongue virus and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus in North Ame...
Sordid Dung Beetle
Aphodius sordidus
A small, dark brown to black dweller dung beetle with yellowish-brown elytral margins. It is a cosmopolitan species foun...
South American Clearwing Moth
Carmenta theobromae
A small wasp-mimicking clearwing moth with transparent wings and a banded black-and-yellow abdomen. It is a significant ...
South American Eucalyptus Sawfly
Lophyrotoma zonalis
A dark-bodied pergid sawfly that has become a significant pest of eucalyptus plantations in South America. Larvae are gr...
South American Grain Stem Sawfly
Cephus fumipennis
A slender black stem sawfly with smoky wings and yellow abdominal bands. It attacks cereal grain stems in parts of Europ...
South American Leafcutter Ant
Atta sexdens
One of the most widespread leafcutter ant species in South America, recognized by the three pairs of spines on its thora...
South American Palm Weevil
Rhynchophorus palmarum
A large glossy black weevil that is a major pest of palm trees across South America. The larvae bore into palm trunks, c...
South American Wattle Sawfly
Arge pullata
A shiny black argid sawfly that feeds on wattle (Acacia) trees. Larvae are green with dark dorsal markings and can cause...
South American Weevil
Rhinostomus barbirostris
A large black weevil with a very long, slender rostrum used for boring into palm trunks. It is an important pest of coco...
Southwestern Corn Borer
Diatraea grandiosella
A pale moth whose larvae bore into corn stalks and girdle stems from the inside, causing extensive lodging. It is a majo...
Soybean Aphid
Aphis glycines
A small pale yellow aphid that invaded North America in 2000 and became the most important soybean pest on the continent...
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...
Spalangia Fly Parasite
Spalangia cameroni
A small dark wasp that parasitizes fly pupae in manure and decaying organic matter. It is commercially reared for biolog...
Spanish Copris
Copris hispanus
A large shiny black dung beetle with a single curved horn on the males head. It constructs elaborate underground brood c...
Spine-Tailed Earwig
Doru aculeatum
A slender earwig found in cornfields and grassy habitats across eastern North America. It shelters in the leaf whorls of...
Spotted Asparagus Beetle
Crioceris duodecimpunctata
A reddish-orange beetle with twelve black spots on its elytra. It is a pest of asparagus, with larvae feeding inside the...
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Diabrotica undecimpunctata
A yellowish-green beetle with eleven black spots on its elytra. It is a significant agricultural pest of cucurbits, corn...
Spotted Stem Borer
Chilo partellus
A straw-colored moth whose larvae bore into stems of maize and sorghum in Africa and Asia. It can cause total crop failu...
Spotted Tumbling Flower Beetle
Mordellistena pumila
A tiny tumbling flower beetle found on composite flowers in summer. Larvae develop in plant stems. One of the smallest a...
Spotted Wing Drosophila
Drosophila suzukii
An invasive fruit fly from East Asia with a saw-like ovipositor that lets it lay eggs in ripening (not rotten) fruit — d...
Spring Field Cricket
Gryllus veletis
A black field cricket that overwinters as a late-instar nymph and matures in spring. Its early-season singing distinguis...
Spruce Gall Adelgid
Adelges abietis
A tiny woolly aphid-like insect that induces distinctive pineapple-shaped galls on Norway spruce twigs. The galls form w...
Spur-throated Locust
Austracris guttulosa
A large Australian locust named for the distinctive spur on its throat. It is a major agricultural pest in northern and ...
Spurge Hawkmoth
Hyles euphorbiae
A striking hawkmoth with olive and pink forewings and rosy-red hindwings with a black base. Its caterpillar is equally s...
Squash Bee
Peponapis pruinosa
A solitary ground-nesting bee that specializes exclusively in pollinating squash, pumpkin, and gourd flowers. It begins ...
Squash Bug
Anasa tristis
A flat, dark grayish-brown bug that is a major pest of squash and pumpkin plants. When crushed, it emits a distinctly un...
Stable Fly
Stomoxys calcitrans
A blood-feeding fly that closely resembles the house fly but has a prominent piercing proboscis. It is a painful biter o...
Stag-jawed Longhorn
Dorysthenes buqueti
A large dark brown longhorn beetle with massive toothed mandibles in males resembling those of stag beetles. It is attra...
Stink Bug
Chinavia hilaris
A bright green shield bug common across North America, formerly known as Acrosternum hilare. It has narrow orange-yellow...
Stink Bug Tachinid
Trichopoda pennipes
A distinctive parasitic fly with a flattened orange abdomen and feathery legs. It attacks stink bugs and squash bugs in ...
Striped Cucumber Beetle
Acalymma vittatum
A yellow beetle with three black stripes that specializes on cucurbit crops. It is a major vector of bacterial wilt and ...
Striped Dung Beetle
Paragymnopleurus striatus
A small to medium roller dung beetle with faint longitudinal striations on the elytra. It is black with a slightly conve...
Striped Flea Beetle
Phyllotreta striolata
A tiny jumping beetle that riddles cruciferous crop leaves with small round holes. Adults overwinter in soil and leaf li...
Striped Horse Fly
Tabanus lineola
A medium-sized horse fly with a pale dorsal stripe on the abdomen. Females are persistent blood-feeders on livestock and...
Striped Seedcorn Beetle
Agonoderus lecontei
A small, pale brown ground beetle with darker stripes on its elytra. It is sometimes a minor pest of germinating corn an...
Striped Turnip Flea Beetle
Phyllotreta undulata
A tiny flea beetle with sinuous yellow stripes that is a significant pest of brassica seedlings. Shothole damage to leav...
Sudan Plague Locust
Aiolopus simulatrix
A slender grasshopper of the Sahel zone that occasionally reaches plague densities after good rains. It is an important ...
Sugarcane Borer
Diatraea saccharalis
A straw-colored moth whose larvae bore into sugarcane stalks, causing yield losses and allowing disease organisms to ent...
Sugarcane Borer Egg Parasitoid
Trichogramma galloi
A tiny egg parasitoid extensively used in Brazilian sugarcane fields. It is highly effective against the sugarcane borer...
Sugarcane Froghopper
Mahanarva fimbriolata
A major pest of sugarcane in Brazil, where it causes significant crop losses. Nymphs produce underground spittle masses ...
Sugarcane Longhorn
Dorysthenes granulosus
A large reddish-brown prionine beetle with granulated elytra, found in South and Southeast Asia. It is an important pest...
Sugarcane Woolly Aphid
Ceratovacuna lanigera
A small aphid covered in white woolly wax secretions that forms dense colonies on the undersides of sugarcane leaves. He...
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 ...
Sumatran Flat-faced Longhorn
Batocera numitor
A very large longhorn beetle with grey-brown mottled elytra and exceptionally long antennae. The flat face and powerful ...
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 Fly
Hydrotaea irritans
A small dark fly attracted to perspiration on humans and livestock. It forms dense head-circling swarms in summer that c...
Swede Midge
Contarinia nasturtii
A minute yellowish-brown gall midge that attacks brassica crops by distorting growing points. Its tiny larvae feed insid...
Sweet Potato Flea Beetle
Chaetocnema confinis
A minute, shiny bronze-black flea beetle with enlarged hind legs for jumping. It creates linear feeding tracks in sweet ...
Swift Rove Beetle
Tachyporus hypnorum
A small, streamlined rove beetle of the subfamily Tachyporinae with a tapered posterior and bicolored body. It is extrem...
Tailed Jay
Graphium agamemnon
A fast-flying black swallowtail butterfly covered with spots of green or blue-green. It rarely settles and is constantly...
Tarnished Plant Bug
Lygus lineolaris
A small, mottled brown and green plant bug that is one of the most damaging agricultural pests in North America. It feed...
Tasmanian Brown Lacewing
Micromus tasmaniae
A small Australian brown lacewing that has become a globally significant biocontrol agent. Widely studied for its effect...
Tawny Mole Cricket
Neoscapteriscus vicinus
An invasive burrowing cricket with tan coloring and powerful digging forelegs. It is a major turf pest in the southeaste...
Teak Defoliator Moth
Hyblaea puera
A medium-sized moth with orange-brown forewings and bright orange hindwings bordered in black. Its caterpillars are the ...
Thistle Lace Bug
Tingis cardui
A small, beautifully structured lace bug found on creeping thistle. Wings have an intricate latticed pattern. Causes yel...
Three-Cornered Alfalfa Treehopper
Spissistilus festinus
A small green wedge-shaped treehopper that is a pest of soybeans and alfalfa. It girdles plant stems during egg-laying, ...
Three-Lined Potato Beetle
Lema daturaphila
A yellow-orange leaf beetle with three black stripes, resembling a smaller Colorado potato beetle. It feeds on tomatillo...
Three-punctured Ground Beetle
Harpalus affinis
A common medium-sized metallic green or bronze ground beetle with distinctive punctures on its elytra. It is abundant in...
Throat Bot Fly of Horses
Gasterophilus nasalis
A yellowish-brown bot fly that lays eggs under the jaw of horses. Larvae migrate to the area between the teeth and gums ...
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...
Toadflax Seed Weevil
Gymnetron antirrhini
A small dark weevil that develops inside the seed capsules of toadflax and snapdragon plants. Larvae consume developing ...
Tobacco Caterpillar Braconid
Microplitis demolitor
A small endoparasitoid wasp that injects polydnavirus along with its eggs into caterpillar hosts. It is an important nat...
Tobacco Flea Beetle
Epitrix hirtipennis
A tiny brownish beetle that creates small round holes in tobacco and other solanaceous crop leaves. Larval feeding on ro...
Tobacco Thrips
Frankliniella fusca
A major pest of tobacco, peanut, and cotton seedlings in the southeastern United States. It transmits tomato spotted wil...
Tomato Potato Psyllid
Bactericera cockerelli
A small striped psyllid that transmits the zebra chip disease bacterium to potato crops. It also causes psyllid yellows ...
Transverse Ladybird
Coccinella transversalis
An Australian native ladybird with variable orange-and-black markings. It is an important biological control agent for a...
Triatoma brasiliensis
Triatoma brasiliensis
The most important Chagas disease vector in the semi-arid Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil. It thrives in rocky ou...
Tropical Dustywing
Heteroconis picticornis
A tropical dustywing with banded antennae found in Asian and African lowland habitats. One of the larger species in the ...
True Armyworm Moth
Mythimna unipuncta
A tawny-brown moth with a single white dot on each forewing. Its larvae march in armies across fields, devastating cerea...
Turkey Gnat
Simulium meridionale
A black fly notorious for swarming livestock in the southern United States. Larvae attach to rocks in swift streams usin...
Turnip Flea Beetle
Phyllotreta nemorum
A small, shiny black beetle with a broad yellow longitudinal stripe on each elytron. It is a significant pest of turnips...
Turnip Moth
Agrotis segetum
A drab brown moth whose fat cutworm larvae sever the stems and roots of root vegetables and seedlings. It is one of the ...
Turnip Sawfly
Athalia rosae
A small orange and black sawfly whose larvae defoliate brassica crops....
Twisted-Wing Delphacid Parasite
Elenchus japonicus
A tiny parasitoid of rice planthoppers, important in Asian rice agroecosystems. Males are free-flying with twisted wings...
Twisted-Winged Parasitoid
Elenchus tenuicornis
A minute strepsipteran that parasitizes planthoppers of the family Delphacidae. Males have fan-shaped hind wings and ras...
Two-Spotted Cricket
Gryllus bimaculatus
A large black cricket with two distinctive pale spots at the base of the forewings. It is widely used as a model organis...
Two-Spotted Hister Beetle
Hister bipustulatus
A small, globular black beetle with two red-orange spots on its truncated elytra. It is commonly found in dung where it ...
Two-spotted Stink Bug
Perillus bioculatus
A colorful predatory stink bug with bold red or orange and black markings. It is particularly valued for its appetite fo...
Variable Dung Beetle
Onthophagus fracticornis
A small, highly variable tunneling dung beetle found across Europe. Coloration ranges from pale brown to nearly black wi...
Variable Rove Beetle
Philonthus varians
A small but abundant rove beetle highly variable in elytral coloration, ranging from entirely black to reddish-brown. It...
Variegated Cutworm
Peridroma saucia
A mottled brown moth whose plump soil-dwelling caterpillars cut through stems of seedlings at ground level. It attacks a...
Variegated Grasshopper
Zonocerus variegatus
A brightly colored grasshopper with striking patterns of yellow, green, black, and orange. It feeds on toxic plants and ...
Wandering Glider
Pantala hymenaea
A medium-sized dragonfly with broad hindwings and a yellowish body. It spends almost its entire life on the wing, rarely...
Warble Fly
Hypoderma bovis
A large, hairy bee-like fly whose larvae migrate through the bodies of cattle for months before emerging from cysts in t...
Western Corn Rootworm
Diabrotica virgifera
One of the most economically damaging corn pests in North America. Larvae feed on corn roots, causing plants to lodge an...
Western Damsel Bug
Nabis alternatus
A tan to light brown predatory bug common in agricultural fields across western North America. It has elongate forelegs ...
Western Flower Thrips
Frankliniella occidentalis
One of the most economically damaging insects in horticulture. Transmits tomato spotted wilt virus. Despite being tiny, ...
Western Plant Bug
Lygus hesperus
A small, oval plant bug that is one of the most important cotton pests in the western United States. It is variable in c...
White Ermine
Spilosoma lubricipeda
A pure white moth peppered with variable black dots, resembling ermine fur. The number of spots varies greatly between i...
White Pine Weevil
Pissodes strobi
A small, mottled brown weevil that attacks the leading shoots of spruce and pine trees. Damage causes trees to grow croo...
White Plume Moth
Pterophorus pentadactyla
A delicate pure white moth with deeply divided wings that split into feather-like plumes. Often seen resting on walls at...
White-Backed Planthopper
Sogatella furcifera
A small delphacid planthopper with a distinctive white dorsal stripe on an otherwise brown body. It is a major rice pest...
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-spotted Longhorn
Batocera rufomaculata
A large greyish-brown longhorn beetle with orange or rufous spots on its elytra. It is a significant pest of mango, fig,...
White-tailed Bumblebee
Bombus lucorum
A common bumblebee with two yellow bands and a white tail. Part of a complex of similar-looking species....
Whitefly
Bemisia tabaci
A tiny sap-sucking insect that transmits over 100 plant viruses worldwide. It is one of the most destructive agricultura...
Wide-Horned Scarab
Euoniticellus intermedius
A small, yellow-brown tunneling dung beetle with dark markings on the pronotum. Males have two short broad horns. It is ...
Xylotrupes Rhinoceros Beetle
Xylotrupes gideon
A widespread Asian rhinoceros beetle commonly used in beetle fighting. Males have a forked horn on the head....
Yellow Ophion
Ophion obscuratus
A laterally flattened, tawny-yellow parasitoid wasp active at dusk and after dark. Its larvae develop as internal parasi...
Yellow Soil Springtail
Protaphorura armata
A blind white springtail that lives entirely in soil and lacks the ability to jump. It is extremely abundant in agricult...
Yellow-banded Eucalyptus Longhorn
Phoracantha recurva
An Australian cerambycid similar to P. semipunctata but with more pronounced yellowish bands and recurved elytral apices...
Yellow-Clubbed Burying Beetle
Nicrophorus investigator
A burying beetle distinguished by its orange-tipped antennal clubs and broad orange elytral bands. It is found across th...
Yellow-faced Bee
Hylaeus communis
A tiny, nearly hairless black bee with distinctive yellow facial markings. It swallows pollen and carries it internally ...
Yellow-headed Scoliid
Campsomeriella annulata
A large dark wasp with prominent yellow head markings and smoky wings. It is a parasitoid of large scarab beetle grubs i...
Yellow-legged Aleocharine
Aleochara curtula
A medium-sized aleocharine rove beetle whose larvae are parasitoids of fly pupae, a rare strategy among beetles. Adults ...