The Backyard Arthropod Project

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



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          • jumping plant lice
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        • Hymenoptera
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            • Giant silk moths
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            • plume moths
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            • tent caterpillars
            • Tiger moths
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            • Tussock moth
          • skippers
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          • Lacewings
        • Odonata
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        • Orthoptera
          • Crickets
          • Grasshoppers
          • Katydids
        • Plecoptera
          • Winter Stoneflies
        • Psocodea (lice)
          • Barklice
        • Trichoptera
          • Northern caddisflies
      • Myriapods
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          • Soil centipedes
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