Curiosities
See also our photo collection of Curiosities
- American Carrion Beetle
- Backswimmers and Water Boatmen (UWM)
- Bella Moth / Beautiful Utetheisa
- Black Swallowtail Caterpillar and Black Swallowtail Butterfly
- Boxelder Bugs (BugGuide.net)
- Brown-hooded Owlet Caterpillar
- Candy-striped Leafhopper
- Cecropia Moth
- Charadra deridens caterpillar
- Cicadas
- Click Beetles
- Crane Flies
- Damselflies
- Dobsonflies
- Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp (Missouri Dept. of Conservation) See also: Sphecius speciosus (BugGuide.net)
- Elm Sawfly
- Euonymus Caterpillars
- European Pine Sawfly
- Eyed Click Beetle (Eyed Elater)
- Firebrats (and Silverfish)
- Fishflies
- Flower Flies (also called Hover Flies or Syrphid Flies)
- Galium Sphinx Caterpillar
- Garden Tiger Moth (Butterflies and Moths of North America Project)
- Giant Water Bug
- Ground Beetle (Bronze Ground Beetle)
- Hickory Tussock Caterpillar
- Horntails
- Horsehair Worm
- House Centipede
- Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (BugGuide.net)
- Introduced Pine Sawfly
- Io Caterpillar
- Katydids (also known as long-horned grasshoppers)
- Laugher caterpillar
- Leopard Slugs
- Locust Borer
- Luna Moths & Caterpillars
- Mayflies (Michigan State Univ. Extension)
- Milkweed Tussock Caterpillar (also known as a Milkweed Tiger Moth caterpillar) (Butterflies and Moths of North America Project)
- Mourning Cloak Butterfly (The Butterflies and Moths of North America project)
- Painted Lady Butterfly
- Parthenice Tiger Moth
- Pennsylvania Wood Roach
- Polyphemus Moth and Caterpillar (Butterflies and Moths of North America Project)
- Praying Mantids (Univ. of Kentucky)
- Predaceous Diving Beetles (BugGuide.net)
- Pseudoscorpions (BugGuide.net)
- Rove Beetles (Iowa State Univ.)
- Saddleback Moth and Caterpillar (The Butterflies and Moths of North America project)
- Sawflies:
- Elm Sawfly
- Dogwood Sawfly (Iowa State Univ Extension) (additional images, including the adult stage: BugGuide.net)
- European Apple Sawfly
- European Pine Sawfly
- Introduced Pine Sawfly
- White Pine Sawfly
- Scorpionflies (Univ. of Kentucky)
- Silverfish (and Firebrats)
- Slug Caterpillars (BugGuide.net)
- Small-headed Fly
- Spider Beetles (people sometimes mistake these for spiders, bed bugs, or ticks)
- Springtails / Snowfleas
- Stoneflies (BugGuide.net)
- Syrphid Flies (also called Hover Flies or Flower Flies)
- Tachinid Fly (Hystricia abrupta) (BugGuide.net)
- Tiger Beetles (Texas A&M); Maine IF&W: Rare Tiger Beetles
- Tortoise Beetles
- Tussock Caterpillars
- Water Boatmen (UWM)
- Water Scavenger Beetles (Texas A&M)
- Water Scorpions
- Water Striders
- Western Conifer Seed Bug
- White Pine Sawfly
- Winter Firefly
- Wood Roach
- Woollybear Caterpillars (University of Missouri Extension): Banded Woollybear and Yellow Woollybear