Possible to identify these beetles? Hello, these orange and black bugs were found on a plant near a lake in Pennsylvania. Can you identify them? Thank you. Dahlia Hi Dahlia, What a nice photo of the Large Milkweed Bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus.
Moth? Butterfly? I think a moth. Dear Lisa & Daniel, I have sent these pix to several on-line sources, trying to find out if they’re fakes or not, but no one has bothered to reply to me. I have scoured every bug site I can find, to no avail. My sister & I both received … Read more
whats this? Bugman, Thanks for the hard work you put in to your wonderful site! My sweetie and I have been exploring a meadow in central mass -part of an audubon refuge- and have become quite fascinated with the monarch butterflies and their exploding population. Over the past few months we’ve spent a lot of … Read more
A lek of two-lined walking sticks? You run a great website, and I was able to use it to identify these insects as Two-lined Walkingsticks, Anisomorpha buprestoides. But I’ve never seen them in a group like this, so I thought you might be interested in seeing them. Have you ever seen them do this? A … Read more
bug sucking juices out of larva? Hi again! I came across this bug who had caught a caterpillar on a tree in our yard here in the Ottawa, ON. area. He had his mouthpiece stuck into the side of the caterpillar’s head. I searched for bugs with piercing mouthpieces and the closest I could come … Read more