It's the time of year when swarms of mayflies and midges arrive in the Erie area. These insects have short lifespans, ranging from a couple hours to a few weeks. While not quite of biblical plague ...

Wouldn’t it be great if the visitor sporting a finely fitted tuxedo in your living room was James Bond? No such luck – it’s an insect dressed in nature’s formalwear. Meet the tuxedo bug, a critter ...

“So the collection consists of around a million specimens of just these ichneumonid wasps. So just this one family of wasps. And in it there’s, it's really hard to say exact figures, but there's ...

It's a true longhorn beetle (Cerambycidae): adults have very long, segmented antennae-often about body length or longer in males (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; BugGuide). It's a true longhorn beetle ...

Wingspan is typically 70-140 mm, making it one of North America's largest moths (e.g., BugGuide; Tuskes, Tuttle & Collins 1996). Wingspan is typically 70-140 mm, making it one of North America's ...

field_user_city_state_country base was added in bugguide@357103e; it's already being migrated. Here we add the instance definition and display it on a user's profile page. We also add the default ...

In the preview section of the Preview image page, the tags section is live: you can click on the "Edit this field" button and edit the tags and click the tags-save button, with no warnings or errors.

Dorothy asks: I was spraying a mealy bug infestation on my gardenia and saw this large white furry insect on the underside of some of the leaves that looked kind of like a giant mealy bug. I sprayed ...

Underwing moths, genus Catocala. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) It was a gathering of lepidopterists. A veritable Who's Who of lepidopterists. Some 25 lepidopterists and others interested in ...

The rain beetle burrows out of the soil with its shovel-like apparatus. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey) Ah, rain! It's good for the drought and it's good for the rain beetles. If you've never seen a ...