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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

Neuroptera – Antlions, Lacewings

Family Chrysopidae – Green Lacewings

Chrysopa oculata – Green Lacewing

Chrysopidae – Green Lacewing

Family Hemerobiidae – Brown Lacewings

Hemerobius humulinus

Micromus posticus – Brown Lacewing

Family Mantispidae – Mantidflies

Dicromantispa sp.

Dicromantispa interrupta

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