Skip to content

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

Category: Uncategorized

A new life cycle from MJ Hatfield

Paonias myops – Small-eyed Sphinx Moth

Posted on February 28, 2013Categories Uncategorized

New Life Cycles from Terry Harrison

Microrhopala vittata – Goldenrod Leaf Miner

Neolema cordata – Leaf Beetle

Rhopalomyia grossulariae – Gooseberry Gall Midge

Posted on February 25, 2013Categories Uncategorized

New life cycle from Charley Eiseman

Stigmella rhamnicola

Posted on January 24, 2013Categories Uncategorized

New Life Cycles from Charley Eiseman

Coelidia olitoria – Leafhopper

Phyllonorycter lucetiella – Basswood Square-blotch Miner Moth

Psyche casta – Bagworm

Posted on January 21, 2013Categories Uncategorized

A New life cycle from Jeff Hollenbeck

Prionoxystus robiniae – Carpenterworm Moth

Posted on January 20, 2013Categories Uncategorized

New Life Cycle from Marcie O’Connor

Hypercompe scribonia – Giant Leopard Moth

Posted on January 11, 2013Categories Uncategorized

A new life cycle from Ken Childs

Acronicta oblinita – Smeared Dagger Moth

Posted on November 30, 2012Categories Uncategorized

New Life Cycles from MJ Hatfield

Chrysopidae – Green Lacewing

Darapsa myron – Virginia Creeper Sphinx

Eupithecia miserulata – Common Eupithecia

Grammia virgo – Virgin Tiger Moth

Hemerobiidae – Brown Lacewing

Leptinotarsa decemlineata – Colorado Potato Beetle

Pandemis lamprosana – Woodgrain Leafroller

Pleuroprucha insulsaria – Common Tan Wave

Syrphini – Syrphid Fly

Posted on November 16, 2012Categories Uncategorized

New life cycle from Karen Anthonisen Finch – Brazilian Skipper

Calpodes ethlius – Brazilian Skipper  larva

Posted on October 31, 2012Categories Uncategorized

New life cycle from Betsy Higgins

Microgastrinae – Wasp parasitoids

Posted on September 29, 2012Categories Uncategorized

Posts navigation

Previous page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 … Page 26 Next page
Proudly powered by WordPress