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Bug Life Cycles

Documenting the life cycles of insects

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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

Dermaptera – Earwigs

Family Forficulidae

Forficula auricularia – European Earwig

* Life cycle information is now on the BugGuide ‘Info’ page for this species.

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