The Backyard Arthropod Project

A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI

• Recent Posts

  • Ant Lion Adult
  • Soil Centipede
  • Field Crickets
  • Calligrapha Leaf Beetle
  • Water Striders
  • Red Turpentine Beetle
  • St. Lawrence Tiger Moth Caterpillar (?)
  • Stone Centipede
  • Ant-Mimic Jumping Spider
  • Water Boatman

• Categories

  • Apparatus and Methods
  • Arthropods
    • Arachnids
      • Mites
        • Ticks
        • Varroa mites
      • Pseudoscorpions
      • Spiders
        • Cobweb spiders
        • Crab spiders
        • Funnel-weavers
        • House spiders
        • Jumping spiders
    • Crustaceans
      • Amphipods
      • Isopods
        • Pillbugs
        • Water Lice
        • Woodlice
    • Insects
      • Coleoptera
        • Bark beetles
        • Carrion beetles
        • Click beetles
        • Darkling beetles
        • Dermestid beetles
          • Carpet beetles
          • Larder beetles
        • Flea beetles
        • Ground beetles
          • Calosoma
          • Tiger beetles
        • June beetles
        • Lady beetles
        • Leaf beetles
      • Diptera
        • Black flies
        • Crane flies
        • Flesh flies
        • Muscid flies
        • Robber flies
      • Hemiptera
        • Cicadas
        • True Bugs
          • Assassin bugs
          • Seed bugs
          • Stink bugs
          • Water bugs
      • Hymenoptera
        • Ants
        • Ichneumons
        • Wasps
      • Lepidoptera
        • Butterflies
          • Fritillaries
          • Monarchs
        • Moths
          • Codling moths
          • Cutworm moths
          • Geometrid moths (inchworms)
          • Giant silk moths
          • Meal moths
          • Prominent moths
          • Tiger moths
      • Neuroptera
        • Antlions
        • Lacewings
      • Orthoptera
        • Crickets
        • Katydids
      • Plecoptera
        • Winter Stoneflies
      • Trichoptera
        • Northern caddisflies
    • Myriapods
      • Centipedes
        • Soil centipedes
        • Stone centipedes
      • Millipedes

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• Arthropod Web Pages

  • A glossary of Surface Sculpturing
  • Arachnology - European Spiders
  • Araneae (Spider) Photos
  • Bug Guide
  • Division of Insects, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
  • Fly-Tree
  • Grasshoppers - USDA
  • Insect Hobbyist
  • Insect ID - UW Madison
  • Insect Picture of the Day
  • Insects of Cedar Creek
  • Journal of Arachnology - Back Issues
  • Michigan Entomological Society
  • Myrmecos (insect photography)
  • NCSU Insect Zoo
  • Nearctic Spider Database
  • Springtails
  • The Arthropod Story
  • Tree of Life - Arthropods
  • What’s That Bug?

• Blogs of Interest

  • Bug Girl’s Blog
  • Eco-Restoration Gypsy
  • Friday Ark
  • Gossamer tapestry
  • Nature of Tasmania
  • Notes from the Undergrowth
  • Photographing the earth one millimeter at a time
  • Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti, Ann Arbor MI
  • Wanderin’ Weeta
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• Tag Cloud

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