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MatBio: BEETLES, FLIES, TRUE BUGS and OTHER INSECTS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Virescent Green Metallic Bee 1
Agapostemon virescens
Paper Wasp 2
Polistes fuscatus pallipes
Eastern Yellowjacket 3
Vespula maculifrons
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 4
Sceliphron caementarium
Lovebug 5
Plecia nearctica
Eyed Click Beetle 6
Alaus oculatus
Black Carpenter Ant 7
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Fire Ant 8
Solenopsis wagneri
Summer Fishfly 9
Chauliodes pectinicornis
Honey Bee 10
Apis mellifera
American Bumble Bee 11
Bombus pensylvanicus
Eastern Carpenter Bee 12
Xylocopa virginica
Silverfish 13
Lepisma saccharina
Fiery Searcher 14
Calosoma scrutator
Pterostichus 15
Orthosoma brunneum 16
Click Beetle 17
Alaus myops
Northern Walkingstick
Diapheromera femorata
Shore Earwig 18
Labidura riparia
Red Velvet Ant 19
Dasymutilla occidentalis
Goldsmith Beetle 20
Cotalpa lanigera
Rainbow Scarab 21
Phanaeus vindex
American Carrion Beetle 22
Necrophila americana
Swamp Cicada 23
Tibicen chloromera
Davis' Southeastern Dog-Day Cicada
Tibicen davisi
Linne's Cicada 24
Tibicen linnei
Lyric Cicada 25
Tibicen lyricen
Neocicada hieroglyphica 26
Cicadidae
brown water scorpion 27
Ranatra fusca
Green Stink Bug 28
Acrosternum hilare
Giant Water Bug 29
Lethocerus americanus
Meadow Spittlebug 30
Philaenus spumarius
Carolina Mantis 31
Stagmomantis carolina
Grass-like mantis 32
Thesprotia graminis
Grizzled Mantid 33
Gonatista grisea
American Cockroach
Periplaneta americana
Subterranean Termite 34
Reticulitermes flavipes
Yellow Fever Mosquito 35
Aedes aegypti
Asian Tiger Mosquito 21
Aedes albopictus
Aedes vexans 21
Anopheles crucians 36
Southern House Mosquito 21
Culex quinquefasciatus
Culex restuans 21
Culiseta inornata 37
Asian Lady Beetle 38
Harmonia axyridis
Large Milkweed Bug 39
Oncopeltus fasciatus
Southern Two-striped Walkingstick 40
Anisomorpha buprestoides
Euodynerus bidens 40
Terminal Leaf-footed Bug 41
Acanthocephala terminalis
Eastern Cicada Killer 42
Sphecius speciosus

Edited by matbio, and Jose Nunez

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