Barbara Magnuson & Larry Kimball

A gallery of Ants, Bees and Wasps, Sawflies and kin, many of which are our most familiar insects belonging to Hymenoptera, one of our largest orders including over 17,000 found in North America

Beetles are members of the largest order, Coleoptera, in the animal kingdom containing a third of all known insects.

Butterflies and moths of the order Lepidoptera include over 125,000 known species worldwide with 12,000 in North America.

This gallery consists of Dragonflies and Damselflies of the order Odonata, found in North America.

A gallery of flies, in the order Diptera which includes over 86,000 known species, with over 16,000 in North America.

A gallery of Grasshoppers and Mantids, considered by some entomologists to be members of the same Order Orthoptera. There are 1,800 mantids and 23,000 grasshoppers found worldwide.

The spiders in this gallery are found in North and Central America and are members of the Order Araneae, the largest group of arachnids. There are over 35,000 known species worldwide with about 3,000 in North America.

True Bugs, Cicadas and kin found in this gallery are members of the Order Hemiptera, numbering over 12,000 known species in North America and about 82,000 worldwide. Almost all True Bugs have a first pair of wings that fold flat over the back and all hemipterans have beaklike mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking.