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Bug Life Cycles

Documenting the life cycles of insects

Life Cycles

  • Araneae – Spiders
  • Odonata – Dragonflies & Damselflies
  • Orthoptera – Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids
  • Dermaptera – Earwigs
  • Mantodea – Mantids
  • Blattodea – Cockroaches & Termites
  • Psocodea – Barklice, Booklice & Parasitic Lice
  • Hemiptera – True Bugs
  • Megaloptera – Alderflies, Dobsonflies, Fishflies
  • Neuroptera – Antlions, Lacewings
  • Coleoptera – Beetles
  • Hymenoptera – Ants, Bees & Wasps
  • Lepidoptera – Butterflies
  • Lepidoptera – Moths
  • Diptera – Flies

Insect ID sites

  • BugGuide
  • Insects of Iowa
  • List of non-native insects – part 1
  • List of non-native insects – part 2
  • Moth Photographers Group
  • Wisconsin Butterflies

Raising Insects

  • HOSTS – Lepidopteran Hostplants
  • How to raise Giant Silk Moths (Saturniidae)
  • Raising Butterflies
  • Raising Butterfly Caterpillars
  • Tips and Questions on Rearing Insects

New MJ PDFs

I just put up lots of MJ’s PDFs – here are links to them:

Butterflies:

American Lady

Banded Hairstreak

Red Admiral

Silvery Checkerspot

Moths:

Henry’s Marsh Moth

Salt Marsh Caterpillar

Artichoke Plume Moth

Yarrow Plume Moth

Dogbane Saucrobotys Moth

Pussytoes Miner Moth

False Boneset Flower Moth

Polyphemus Moth

Fawn Sphinx

Abbot’s Sphinx

Sunflower Tortricid Moth

Bugs:

Stink Bugs

Wasps:

Silphium Gall Wasp

Beetles:

Puffball Beetle

Beetle

Posted on February 28, 2009February 28, 2009Author marcieCategories Uncategorized

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