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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 Life Cycles – Lots of Beetles

From  Jim McClarin

Puffball Beetle

Pytho niger

Orchesia sp.

Synchita fuliginosa

Canifa sp.

Neomida bicornis

Centronopus calcaratus

Mycetochara binotata

False Mealworm Beetle

Valgus seticollis

Osmoderma eremicola

Osmoderma scabra

Asemum striatum

Graphisurus fasciatus

Aegomorphus modestus

Dermestes talpinus

Varied Carpet Beetle

Trogoderma ornata

Trogoderma glabrum

Anisotoma sp.

Gyrophaena sp.

Sepedophilus sp.

Two-lined Chestnut Borer

Slime Mold Beetles

Dirrhagofarsus sp.

Melasis pectinicornis

Dromaeolus badius

Denticollis denticornis






Posted on April 8, 2009April 20, 2009Author marcieCategories Uncategorized

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