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Acrididae

June Taxonomy Fail - Comments (5)
Among the Clover – Aquatic Grasshoppers? - Comments (1)
Katydids and Didn’ts - Comments (0)

Acromyrmex

Leafcutters on Parade - Comments (0)
Ant farmer – Leafcutter Ants - Comments (0)

Aeshnidae

Frog Tongues, Vader Masks, and Dragonfly Nymphs - Comments (4)
Sprawlers and Climbers – Lifestyles of dragonfly nymphs - Comments (0)
Water to Air – Baby Dragonflies - Comments (8)

Anisoptera

Frog Tongues, Vader Masks, and Dragonfly Nymphs - Comments (4)
Sprawlers and Climbers – Lifestyles of dragonfly nymphs - Comments (0)
Water to Air – Baby Dragonflies - Comments (8)
Old Wings; New Wings - Comments (1)

Anoplura

Blood Suckers – Hog lice and dead pigs - Comments (1)

Aphaenogaster

If you give an ant a cookie… - Comments (0)

Aphididae

The Mummy – Aphids and Parasitoid Wasps - Comments (0)
At the Aphid Bar - Comments (2)
Sunny Suckers - Comments (1)
Minute Monster – the immature ladybug - Comments (4)

Apidae

Beekeeping, in Miniature: the Sugarbag Bees - Comments (1)

Arachnids

June Morphology Fail - Comments (0)
Pseudoscorpions - Comments (3)
May Taxonomy Fail: Insect Tattoos - Comments (1)
Q&A - Comments (1)
Black on Black - Comments (0)
Fluourescent Scorpions: Love and Danger in the Dark - Comments (0)
Giant Jumping Spiders - Comments (2)
Spiders raiding ant nest - Comments (10)
Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle - Comments (1)
Spider Piggy-Back Rides - Comments (1)

Aradidae

(Extremely) Flat Bug - Comments (2)

Araneae

June Morphology Fail - Comments (0)
May Taxonomy Fail: Insect Tattoos - Comments (1)
Giant Jumping Spiders - Comments (2)
Spiders raiding ant nest - Comments (10)
Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle - Comments (1)
Spider Piggy-Back Rides - Comments (1)
May Taxonomy Fail: Everybody wants to be an ant - Comments (2)
Zebra Spider - Comments (3)
Meal Time - Comments (2)
A Heap of Queens – Foundress fire ants - Comments (2)

Araneidae

Be My Valentine: Male and Female Garden Spiders - Comments (4)

Arctiidae

Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A (Wooly) Bear - Comments (5)

Atta

Lots and lots of leafcutters - Comments (0)

Auchenorrhyncha

Orange Hoppers - Comments (1)
Thorn Mimics & Other Freaks of Nature - Comments (0)
Ants and Hoppers - Comments (0)
Spittlebugs - Comments (0)
Damsel and Prey – the Narrow-Winged Damselfly - Comments (1)
Cryptic Cicada - Comments (0)

Blattellidae

Roach Revisited - Comments (0)

Blattidae

American Cockroaches - Comments (1)

Blattodea

American Cockroaches - Comments (1)
Taxonomy Fail: When is a roach not a roach? - Comments (5)
Roach Revisited - Comments (0)

Bombycidae

Fluffy Caterpillars and Latin Names - Comments (5)

Bombyliidae

The flower and the fly - Comments (3)
Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)

Brachymyrmex

How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)
Nuptial Flight – The Sad Plight of Male Ants - Comments (2)
At the Aphid Bar - Comments (2)

Braconidae

We Have to go Deeper - Comments (5)

Calliphoridae

The beautiful beautiful hairy maggot blowflies - Comments (2)
March of the Zombie Flies - Comments (2)
Maggot Art Live - Comments (2)
Maggot art, etc. - Comments (6)

Camponotus

Life of a carpenter ant - Comments (5)
How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)
Queen Ants – Founding a new colony - Comments (9)
Home Sweet Home – Carpenter Ants - Comments (0)
Ants and Hoppers - Comments (0)
At the Aphid Bar - Comments (2)
Cradle Robber - Comments (0)
Sister, sister - Comments (0)
Ants and Scales - Comments (0)

Carabidae

Caterpillar Hunters - Comments (5)

Centipedes

Many legs: The red-headed centipede - Comments (5)

Cerambycidae

Wasp or Beetle? – the Redheaded Ashborer - Comments (3)

Cercopidae

Spittlebugs - Comments (0)

Chrysomelidae

Life Cycle – Red-headed Chrysomela leaf beetle - Comments (0)
Casebearers - Comments (0)
Pretty Plumes - Comments (2)

Chrysopidae

Lacy Wings - Comments (0)

Cicadellidae

Damsel and Prey – the Narrow-Winged Damselfly - Comments (1)

Cicadidae

Cryptic Cicada - Comments (0)

Coccinellidae

Cute Bug? Ladybug Life Stages - Comments (1)
In a Name – lady beetles and insect naming - Comments (0)
Minute Monster – the immature ladybug - Comments (4)

Coccoidea

Ants and Scales - Comments (0)

Coenagrionidae

Damsel and Prey – the Narrow-Winged Damselfly - Comments (1)

Coleoptera

Go away or I will glow at you - Comments (1)
Beetles and Parental Care - Comments (8)
Caterpillar Hunters - Comments (5)
Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)
Squeaky Beetles - Comments (3)
Two Weevils - Comments (1)
Scarabs: The Green June Beetle - Comments (0)
Taxonomy Fail: When is a roach not a roach? - Comments (5)
Bleeding Blister Beetles - Comments (2)
Life Cycle – Red-headed Chrysomela leaf beetle - Comments (0)

Collembola

Don’t look now, but we’re surrounded: the Springtails - Comments (2)

Coreidae

Predator or Prey - Comments (2)
Leaf-footed Bugs - Comments (0)

Corydalidae

Fishflies and more - Comments (0)

Crematogaster

How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)
Dancing Ant - Comments (4)
Queen Ants – Founding a new colony - Comments (9)
Acrobat ants, arboreal ninjas - Comments (2)
Ant Picnic – Acrobat Ants - Comments (0)

Culicidae

Bloodsuckers - Comments (0)

Curculionidae

Two Weevils - Comments (1)

Cynipidae

Green Rooms and Gall Wasps - Comments (3)

Derbidae

Orange Hoppers - Comments (1)

Dermaptera

Skin Wings — Earwig wing folding - Comments (0)
The Common Earwig - Comments (0)
New Year’s Babies — Maternal care in earwigs - Comments (0)
Things That Are Not Fire Ants - Comments (8)

Dermestidae

Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)

Dinoponera

Dinoponera: Giant Killer Ants from the Amazon - Comments (3)

Diptera

The beautiful beautiful hairy maggot blowflies - Comments (2)
When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)
Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)
Flying Robot Bugs - Comments (0)
The flower and the fly - Comments (3)
March of the Zombie Flies - Comments (2)
When Bugs Bite Back - Comments (0)
Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)
Maggot Art Live - Comments (2)
Maggot art, etc. - Comments (6)

Dolichopodidae

The Spider and the Fly - Comments (0)

Dorymyrmex

Alates leaving home - Comments (0)

Elateridae

Go away or I will glow at you - Comments (1)

Embioptera

Extra Extra – Embioptera, the Webspinners - Comments (6)

Evaniidae

The Standard Bearer – Ensign Wasp - Comments (6)

Forficulidae

Skin Wings — Earwig wing folding - Comments (0)
The Common Earwig - Comments (0)
New Year’s Babies — Maternal care in earwigs - Comments (0)

Formicidae

Do fire ants cause weddings? - Comments (2)
When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)
Life of a carpenter ant - Comments (5)
Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)
How not to kill fire ants - Comments (2)
How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)
Dinoponera: Giant Killer Ants from the Amazon - Comments (3)
Fire Ant Mating Flight - Comments (0)
The Sad Plight of Male Ants (revisited) - Comments (1)
If you give an ant a cookie… - Comments (0)

Geometridae

Inching Along – Geometridae - Comments (0)

Gryllidae

Caterpillar Hunters - Comments (5)
Many legs: The red-headed centipede - Comments (5)
Little Green Men: Tree Crickets - Comments (1)
Mantis Massacre – Hand feeding a Chinese mantis - Comments (8)
In a Pinch — the Scorpion’s Chelicerae - Comments (6)

Haematopinidae

Blood Suckers – Hog lice and dead pigs - Comments (1)

Hemiptera

Orange Hoppers - Comments (1)
I’m calling these potato monsters - Comments (1)
Meal Time - Comments (2)
Thorn Mimics & Other Freaks of Nature - Comments (0)
The Mummy – Aphids and Parasitoid Wasps - Comments (0)
(Extremely) Flat Bug - Comments (2)
Gender Identity – Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)
Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)
In the Life of an Ant - Comments (2)
Predator or Prey - Comments (2)

Hesperiidae

A day in the life of a butterfly - Comments (3)
Skippers - Comments (0)
Mantis Meal - Comments (0)

Heteroptera

Meal Time - Comments (2)
(Extremely) Flat Bug - Comments (2)
Gender Identity – Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)
Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)
In the Life of an Ant - Comments (2)
Predator or Prey - Comments (2)
The Assassin (Bug) - Comments (1)
Leaf-footed Bugs - Comments (0)
Le Pew – the Stink Bug - Comments (0)
Ambushed Wasp – The Ambush Bug - Comments (0)

Hymenoptera

Beekeeping, in Miniature: the Sugarbag Bees - Comments (1)
Do fire ants cause weddings? - Comments (2)
When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)
Life of a carpenter ant - Comments (5)
Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)
How not to kill fire ants - Comments (2)
How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)
Dinoponera: Giant Killer Ants from the Amazon - Comments (3)
Fire Ant Mating Flight - Comments (0)
The Sad Plight of Male Ants (revisited) - Comments (1)

Ichneumonidae

We Have to go Deeper - Comments (5)

Insects

Beekeeping, in Miniature: the Sugarbag Bees - Comments (1)
American Cockroaches - Comments (1)
Go away or I will glow at you - Comments (1)
The beautiful beautiful hairy maggot blowflies - Comments (2)
Do fire ants cause weddings? - Comments (2)
When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)
June Morphology Fail - Comments (0)
Life of a carpenter ant - Comments (5)
May Taxonomy Fail: Insect Tattoos - Comments (1)
Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)

Isoptera

In the Mound – Termites - Comments (0)

Ixodida

April Taxonomy Fail: The Naming of Pests - Comments (1)

Lasiocampidae

Camping Caterpillars - Comments (0)

Lepidoptera

Fluffy Caterpillars and Latin Names - Comments (5)
Luna Moths: THE FINAL CHAPTER - Comments (4)
Cunning Caterpillars - Comments (2)
Cute, fuzzy, cannibalistic - Comments (3)
So I got some luna moth eggs… - Comments (12)
Nooooooooo (Attack of the Carpet Beetles) - Comments (2)
T-wings - Comments (0)
A day in the life of a butterfly - Comments (3)
Soft and Fluffy – Flannel Moths and Puss Caterpillars - Comments (3)
Acrobat ants, arboreal ninjas - Comments (2)

Lepismatidae

Bathroom Bugs – The Silverfish - Comments (8)

Libellulidae

Frog Tongues, Vader Masks, and Dragonfly Nymphs - Comments (4)
Sprawlers and Climbers – Lifestyles of dragonfly nymphs - Comments (0)
Water to Air – Baby Dragonflies - Comments (8)
Old Wings; New Wings - Comments (1)

Lycosidae

Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle - Comments (1)
Spider Piggy-Back Rides - Comments (1)
Just For Fun - Comments (2)
Spider Fur - Comments (2)
She-Wolf - Comments (0)

Lygaeidae

Gender Identity – Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)
Milkweed Bugs - Comments (0)

Mantidae

June Taxonomy Fail - Comments (5)
May Taxonomy Fail: Everybody wants to be an ant - Comments (2)
The effect of children on mantises - Comments (1)
Mantis Massacre – Hand feeding a Chinese mantis - Comments (8)
Mantis Montage - Comments (6)
Flower Power - Comments (0)
Mantis Meal - Comments (0)

Mantispidae

Mantidfly - Comments (2)

Mantodea

June Taxonomy Fail - Comments (5)
May Taxonomy Fail: Everybody wants to be an ant - Comments (2)
The effect of children on mantises - Comments (1)
Mantis Massacre – Hand feeding a Chinese mantis - Comments (8)
Mantis Montage - Comments (6)
Flower Power - Comments (0)
Mantis Meal - Comments (0)

Mecoptera

Scorpionflies! - Comments (2)

Megaloptera

Fishflies and more - Comments (0)

Megalopygidae

Soft and Fluffy – Flannel Moths and Puss Caterpillars - Comments (3)

Meloidae

Bleeding Blister Beetles - Comments (2)

Membracidae

Thorn Mimics & Other Freaks of Nature - Comments (0)
Ants and Hoppers - Comments (0)

Milichiidae

Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)

Miridae

Meal Time - Comments (2)
In the Life of an Ant - Comments (2)

Monomorium

How to Build a Bunch of Different Formicaria - Comments (0)

Mordellidae

Tumbling Flower Beetle - Comments (0)

Muscidae

Flying Robot Bugs - Comments (0)
When Bugs Bite Back - Comments (0)

Myrmecocystus

Biting and Stinging: The Ants - Comments (2)

Myrmeleontidae

Won’t you be my neighbor? Wildlife visitors - Comments (1)
Antlion Take Two - Comments (2)
Pit Monsters – The Immature Antlion - Comments (0)

Neivamyrmex

When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)

Neuroptera

Won’t you be my neighbor? Wildlife visitors - Comments (1)
In the Life of an Ant - Comments (2)
Mantidfly - Comments (2)
Antlion Take Two - Comments (2)
Pit Monsters – The Immature Antlion - Comments (0)
Lacy Wings - Comments (0)

Nicoletiidae

Fire Ant Symbiotes – Nicoletiid Silverfish - Comments (3)

Odonata

Frog Tongues, Vader Masks, and Dragonfly Nymphs - Comments (4)
Sprawlers and Climbers – Lifestyles of dragonfly nymphs - Comments (0)
Water to Air – Baby Dragonflies - Comments (8)
Old Wings; New Wings - Comments (1)
Damsel and Prey – the Narrow-Winged Damselfly - Comments (1)

Opiliones

Black on Black - Comments (0)

Orthoptera

October Taxonomy Fail - Comments (1)
June Taxonomy Fail - Comments (5)
Caterpillar Hunters - Comments (5)
Many legs: The red-headed centipede - Comments (5)
Little Green Men: Tree Crickets - Comments (1)
Hopper Babies – Distinguishing adult and juvenile orthopterans - Comments (4)
Among the Clover – Aquatic Grasshoppers? - Comments (1)
Mantis Massacre – Hand feeding a Chinese mantis - Comments (8)
In a Pinch — the Scorpion’s Chelicerae - Comments (6)
Color Lubbers - Comments (1)

Panorpidae

Scorpionflies! - Comments (2)

Papilionidae

In Defense of Caterpillars - Comments (0)
Swallowtails - Comments (0)

Passalidae

Beetles and Parental Care - Comments (8)
Squeaky Beetles - Comments (3)

Pentatomidae

Le Pew – the Stink Bug - Comments (0)

Pheidole

Big-headed ant majors need to be 20% cooler - Comments (0)

Phoridae

When is a fly not a fly? - Comments (2)

Phthiraptera

Blood Suckers – Hog lice and dead pigs - Comments (1)

Phylloxeridae

I’m calling these potato monsters - Comments (1)

Pogonomyrmex

Fighting ants and Freeloading flies - Comments (1)
If you give an ant a cookie… - Comments (0)
Spiders raiding ant nest - Comments (10)

Polyphagidae

Taxonomy Fail: When is a roach not a roach? - Comments (5)

Proscopiidae

Stick Mimic - Comments (0)

Pseudomyrmex

Amber Twig Ants - Comments (0)
Out with the old; In with the new! — Twig Ants - Comments (7)
In the Life of an Ant - Comments (2)
Cradle Robber - Comments (0)
Baby Ants - Comments (0)

Pseudoscorpiones

Pseudoscorpions - Comments (3)

Pterophoridae

T-wings - Comments (0)

Reduviidae

Predator or Prey - Comments (2)
The Assassin (Bug) - Comments (1)
Ambushed Wasp – The Ambush Bug - Comments (0)

Romaleidae

Among the Clover – Aquatic Grasshoppers? - Comments (1)
Color Lubbers - Comments (1)
Boys and Girls – Sexual Dimorphism in Lubbers - Comments (2)
Grasshopper and Spines - Comments (0)

Salticidae

Giant Jumping Spiders - Comments (2)
Zebra Spider - Comments (3)
A Heap of Queens – Foundress fire ants - Comments (2)
Jumping Spider Greetings - Comments (4)
Halloween Spiders - Comments (4)

Saturniidae

Luna Moths: THE FINAL CHAPTER - Comments (4)
Cunning Caterpillars - Comments (2)
Cute, fuzzy, cannibalistic - Comments (3)
So I got some luna moth eggs… - Comments (12)
Luminescent - Comments (1)

Scarabaeidae

Scarabs: The Green June Beetle - Comments (0)
Roll With It – Dung Beetles - Comments (2)
Fire Ant Symbiotes – Martineziana dutertrei - Comments (1)

Scorpiones

Fluourescent Scorpions: Love and Danger in the Dark - Comments (0)
In a Pinch — the Scorpion’s Chelicerae - Comments (6)

Siphonaptera

April Taxonomy Fail: The Naming of Pests - Comments (1)

Solenopsis

Do fire ants cause weddings? - Comments (2)
How not to kill fire ants - Comments (2)
Fire Ant Mating Flight - Comments (0)
The Sad Plight of Male Ants (revisited) - Comments (1)
Biting and Stinging: The Ants - Comments (2)
Fire ants vs. Rasberry crazy ants - Comments (4)
Baby, Baby, Baby (Ants queens and brood) - Comments (0)
Swarms of Fire Ants - Comments (2)
First, Remove Cat from Ants - Comments (2)
A Heap of Queens – Foundress fire ants - Comments (2)

Sternorrhyncha

I’m calling these potato monsters - Comments (1)
The Mummy – Aphids and Parasitoid Wasps - Comments (0)
At the Aphid Bar - Comments (2)
Sunny Suckers - Comments (1)
Minute Monster – the immature ladybug - Comments (4)
Ants and Scales - Comments (0)

Syrphidae

To Bee or Not to Bee - Comments (0)

Tachinidae

Pollinator - Comments (0)

Techniques

Tools for Insect Collecting - Comments (4)
Techniques: Drip Floatation Method (Fire ants) - Comments (0)
Techniques: Aspirator - Comments (4)
Mercury Vapor Lamp and Light Sheet - Comments (0)
Sweep Netting - Comments (0)
Spreading Insect Wings - Comments (0)

Tenebrionidae

Taxonomy Fail: When is a roach not a roach? - Comments (5)

Tettigoniidae

Hopper Babies – Distinguishing adult and juvenile orthopterans - Comments (4)
Katydids and Didn’ts - Comments (0)
Ant Picnic – Acrobat Ants - Comments (0)

Thomisidae

Meal Time - Comments (2)

Thysanoptera

Thrips and other possibly imaginary pains - Comments (1)

Thysanura

Bathroom Bugs – The Silverfish - Comments (8)
Fire Ant Symbiotes – Nicoletiid Silverfish - Comments (3)

Uncategorized

Entoblitz 2012 - Comments (0)
10 Weird Things About Bugs - Comments (3)
Gruesome leafcutter ant battle - Comments (0)
Herpetology, I love you - Comments (1)
Danger In the Flowers - Comments (1)

Zygoptera

Damsel and Prey – the Narrow-Winged Damselfly - Comments (1)

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