Quick reference guide
I really want people to be able to find what they are looking for on this site, so in addition to the tag cloud, categories, and archives-by-date on the sidebar, I wanted to have a way to quickly scan through to find a specific critter. This page is a quick index of the arthropods on this site, categorized by their taxonomy, with thumbnails of my images. Clicking on the thumbnail picture will take you to the full-sized version of the image, and clicking on the name of the arthropod immediately above the thumbnail will take you to the main page where I talk about it. The main pages generally have additional pictures that may not be shown as thumbnails here.
Subphylum Chelicerata - Arachnids (spiders, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen)
Mites
Ticks
Varroa mites
Pseudoscorpions
Spiders
Cobweb spiders
Steatoda species
Male Steatoda specimen with separate entry
Crab spiders
Funnel-weavers (*North American species, not venomous*)
House spiders
Jumping spiders
Subphylum Crustacea - Crustaceans (Pillbugs, woodlice, crayfish, daphnia)
Amphipods
Isopods
Pillbugs
Woodlice
Water lice
Subphylum Hexapodia - Insects and Entognathids
Coleoptera (beetles)
Carrion beetles
Click beetles
Darkling beetles
Dermestid beetles
Carpet beetles
Anthrenus larva
Larder beetles
Flea beetles
Ground beetles
Calosoma
Tiger beetles
June beetles
Lady beetles
Diptera (true flies - two wings)
Black flies
Crane flies
Flesh flies
Muscid flies
Robber flies
Hemiptera (true bugs, cicadas, leafhoppers, aphids)
Cicadas
True Bugs
Assassin bugs
Seed bugs
Stink bugs
Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps)
Ants
Wasps
Ichneumons
Black and White with Orange Legs, A Dot on the Back, and White on the Anntenae
Reddish Brown With Long, Straight Ovipositor and a Black Head
Vespids
Paper wasps
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
Butterflies
Fritillaries
Monarchs
Moths
Codling moths
Cutworm moths
Geometrid moths (inchworms)
Giant silk moths
Meal moths
Prominent moths
Tiger moths
Neuroptera (antlions, lacewings, and dobsonflies)
Antlions
Lacewings
Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids)
Crickets
Camel Crickets
Katydids
Plecoptera (stoneflies)
Tricoptera (caddisflies)
Subphylum Myriapodia - Centipedes and Millipedes
Millipedes
Steve Unger:
I just found a catapillar I can’t ID…how can I ID it?
17 July 2008, 9:44 pmTim Eisele:
If you can’t find it, but have a photograph, then just register on bug guide so that you can log in (it’s free), and then go to “ID Request” and upload the picture. Somebody will probably leave a comment within a couple of days giving you a likely ID, at least to the family level.
If you think you’ll want to ID caterpillars in the future, live east of the Mississippi, and want a good guide, I recommend Caterpillars of Eastern North America. It’s very good, with excellent pictures.