Bugpedia 2k24

An ongoing catalogue of bugs (well, arthropods) I saw in 2024. Inspired by the Pokedex, the encyclopedia from Animal Crossing, and iNaturalist.

Click a bug to learn more!

Odonata

Dragonflies and damselflies

Common green darner

Eastern forktail

Malacostraca

Crabs, shrimp, isopods, amphipods

Common pill woodlouse

Hyloniscus sp.

Coleoptera

Beetles

American carrion beetle

Helophorus sp.

Short-winged blister beetle

Bidentate leaf beetle

Paria sp.

Waterlily leaf beetle

Black-margined loosestrife beetle

Spotted pink lady beetle

Asian lady beetle

Bumble flower beetle

Winter firefly

Twelve-spotted tiger beetle

Chlaenus impunctifrons

Sand-loving bembidion beetle

Hymenoptera

Wasps, bees, and ants

Hemiptera

True bugs

Eastern boxelder bug

Brown stinkbug

Green stinkbug

Bog leafhopper

Waterlily planthopper

Limnoporus dissortis

Diptera

Flies

Lepidoptera

Butterflies and moths

Myriapoda

Millipedes and centipedes

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Armadillium vulgare, common pill woodlouse

European species, naturalized in North America