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• Insect
• 1995.06.01
• Tricolored Bumble Bee (Bombus ternarius)
• Found in Bayfield County on 6/28/95 by Vann Pattermann.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.08.01
• Black Horse Fly (Tabanus atratus)
• Found in Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Vann Pattermann. Specimen was collected in meadow. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.10.01
• Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
• Caught in meadow with day net, Bayfield County on 7/11/2000 by J. Jenkins. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.11.01
• Milbert's Tortoiseshell (Aglais milberti)
• Caught in day net in Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Vann Patterman. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.14.01
• Eastern Black Carpenter Ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus)
• Found in Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Vann Pattermann.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.15.01
• Band–winged Grasshopper (Subfamily Oedipodinae)
• Found in meadow with a day net, Bayfield County on 6/28/1995. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.16.01
• Luna Moth (Actias luna)
• Dry mount of a Luna Moth displayed with wings spread. Collected by Katie Hendricks in Bayfield County on 7/2/1995.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.17.01
• Syrphid Fly (Family Syrphidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings out. Found in Bayfield County on 7/6/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.18.02
• Elisa Skipper Dragonfly (Celithemis elisa)
• Dry mount caught in meadow with day net is displayed with wings spread. Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.18.03
• Elisa Skipper Dragonfly (Celithemis elisa)
• Dry mount caught in meadow with day net, displayed with wings spread. Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.21.01
• Plant Bug (Family Miridae)
• Found in Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Sue Benson.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.22.01
• Eastern Treehole Mosquito (Ochlerotatus triseriatus)
• Found in Bayfield County on 7/5/1995 by Vann Patterman. Insect is mounted on paper.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.23
• Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
• Dry mount displayed with wings spread. Found in Bayfield County on 8/19/2000 by Joseph Jenkins.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.24.01
• Horn–faced Leaf–cutter Bee (Megachile fidelis)
• Found in Bayfield County on 6/28/1995 by Sue Benson.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.26.01
• Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata)
• Dry mounted with wings open. Found in Bayfield County on 7/5/1995 by Vann Patterman.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.27.01
• Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice)
• Found in Bayfield County on 7/12/1995 by Vann Patterman. Caught with day net in meadow and mounted with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.28.01
• Little Wood Satyr (Megisto cymela)
• Found in Bayfield County on 7/12/1995.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.30.03
• Hoverfly (Syrphus sp.)
• Dry mount of a Syrphid Fly found in Bayfield County on 7/12/1995 by Sue Benson.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.31.01
• Hoverfly (Syrphus sp.)
• Dry mount displayed with wings spread. Found in Bayfield County on 7/12/1995 by Vann Patterman.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.32.01
• Carrion Beetle (Silpha sp.)
• Beetle found in Bayfield County on 7/12/1995 by Vann Patterman.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.33.01
• Virginia Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginica)
• Dry mount displayed with wings closed. Found in Bayfield County on 7/12/199 by Vann Patterman.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.34.01
• Twelve–spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella)
• Dragonfly was found on car grill and brought in by Mary Ann Allen on 7/19/1995.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.37.01
• Plant Bug (Family Miridae)
• Dry mount of Plant Bug that was found in Bayfield County on 7/19/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.38.01
• Band–winged Grasshopper (Subfamily Oedipodinae)
• Dry mount of grasshopper that was found in Bayfield County on 7/19/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.39.01
• Narrow–winged Damselfly (Family Coenagrionidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings closed. Found in Bayfield County on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.39.02
• Narrow–winged Damselfly (Family Coenagrionidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings together. Found by Bayfield County 7/19/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.40.01
• Spur–throated Grasshopper (Subfamily Melanoplinae)
• Found in Bayfield Count on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendrick.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.41.01
• Alderfly (Sialis sp.)
• Dry mount displayed with wings closed. Found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County on 5/16/2000 by J. Jenkins.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.42.01
• Haploa Tiger Moth (Haploa lecontei)
• Dry mount displayed with wings spread. Found in Bayfield County on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.43.01
• Bee Fly (Anthrax sp.)
• Dry mount displayed with wings spread. Found in Bayfield County on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.44.01
• Prominent Moth (Family Notodontidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings open. Found in Bayfield County on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks. Original tag identifies as White-marked Tent-maker (Melalopha albosigma).... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.44.02
• Prominent Moth (Family Notodontidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings closed. Found in Bayfield County 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks. Original tag identifies as White-marked Tent-maker (Melalopha albosigma).... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.44.03
• Prominent Moth (Family Notodontidae)
• Dry mount displayed with wings open. Found in Bayfield County on 7/26/1995 by Katie Hendricks. Original tag identifies as White-marked Tent-maker (Melalopha albosigma).... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.45.01
• Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth (Malacosoma disstria)
• Dry mount with wings folded against abdomen.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.47.01
• Eastern Firefly (Photinus pyralis)
• Dry specimen mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.48.02
• Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth (Malacosoma disstria)
• Adult of the species mounted with cocoon.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.49
• Spur–throated Grasshopper (Subfamily Melanoplinae)
• Dry specimen mounted on a pin with left wing spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.50.01
• Spur–Throated Grasshopper (Subfamily Melanoplinae)
• Dry specimen mounted on a pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.51.01
• Plant Bug (Family Miridae)
• Dry specimen mounted on paper point. Left hind leg missing.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.52.01
• Common Eastern Firefly (Photinus pyralis)
• Dry specimen mounted on a pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.56.01
• Skipper (Family Hesperiidae)
• Small chocolate-brown butterfly with few light markings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1995.56.02
• Skipper (Family Hesperiidae)
• Dry specimen mounted on pin with some thin patches on wings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.01
• Elder Borer (Desmocerus palliatus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #1 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.02
• Pine Sawyer (Trichocnemis sp.)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #2 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section. Listed as old taxonomic genus "Ergates."... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.03
• Cylindrical Borer (Neoclytus acuminatus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #3 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.04
• Red Milkweed Beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #4 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.05
• Brown Fruit Chafer (Euphoria sp.)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #5 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.06
• Metallic Wood–boring Beetle (Family Buprestidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #6 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.07
• Northern Carrion Beetle (Thanatophilus lapponicus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #7 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section. Labeled as Silpha lapponica.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.08
• American Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #8 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section. Labeled as Silpha americana.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.09
• Carrion Beetle (Family Silphidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #9 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.10
• Tomentose Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus tomentosus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #10 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.11
• Golden Buprestid (Buprestis Aurulenta)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #11 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.12
• Pennsylvania Leather–wing (Chauliognathus pennsylvanicus)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #12 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.13
• Soldier Beetle (Family Cantharidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on paper point as #13 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.14
• Dermestid Beetle (Family Dermestidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #14 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.15
• Darkling Beetle (Family Tenebrionidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #15 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section. Labeled as Mealworm Beetle.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.16
• Darkling Beetle (Family Tenebrionidae)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #16 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.17
• Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #17 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.18
• Spotted Asparagus Beetle (Crioceris duodecimpunctata)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #18 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.19
• Three–lined Potato Beetle (Lema daturaphila)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #19 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section. Labeled as Lema trilineata... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.20
• Stored–grain Billbug (Sitophilus granarius)
• Dried specimen mounted on pin as #20 in "Inspect an Insect" shadow box Coleoptera section.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.21
• Lesser Cloverleaf Weevil (Hypera nigrirostris)
• The dorsal scales vary in colour from green or greenish to light brown, in which case the species may be discriminated from other congeners by small size.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.22
• Broad–nosed Weevil (Barypeithes pellucidus)
• It is native to Europe, adventive and widespread in North America (introduced ca. 1886) througouts so. Canada and the US.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.23
• Broad–nosed Weevil (Barypeithes pellucidus)
• It is native to Europe, adventive and widespread in North America (introduced ca. 1886) througouts so. Canada and the US.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.24
• Snout Beetle (Hypera sp.)
• Largest family of beetles easily distiguised by the front of the head which is formed into a downwardly curved snout with tiny little jaws.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.25
• Billbug (Sphenophorus sp.)
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.26
• Net–winged Beetle (Calopteron sp.)
• Large, boldly-marked net-winged beetles with broad, delicate elytra, flared out towards the rear.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.27
• Firefly (Pyractomena sp.)
• Body narrowly elongate, glabrous. Color pale overall, median stripe brown, pale lateral border of elytron narrow.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.28
• Firefly (Pyractomena sp.)
• Body narrowly elongate, glabrous. Color pale overall, median stripe brown, pale lateral border of elytron narrow.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.29
• Crawling Water Beetle (Haliplus sp.)
• Adult: body convex, boat-shaped, with; middle and hind tibiae equipped with fringe of swimming hairs; legs move alternately while swimming (all are characteristics of the family); some species have a single black spot on anterior margin of pronotum.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.30
• Water Scavenger Beetle (Cercyon sp.)
• Most water scavenger beetles are uniformly black or brown.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.31
• Water Scavenger Beetle (Cercyon sp.)
• Most water scavenger beetles are uniformly black or brown.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.32
• Large Whirligig Beetle (Gyrinus sp.)
• Found worldwide and throughout North America (more diverse in the north).... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.33
• Small Whirligig Beetle (Gyrinus sp.)
• Small black beetle found on the surface of water.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.34
• Large Diving Beetle (Cybister fimbriolatus)
• Oval shaped beetle that inhabit all types of aquatic habitats. They prefer quiet waters with lots of vegetation and food.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.35
• Small Flat Diving Beetle (Coelambus sp.)
• Oval shaped beetle that inhabit all types of aquatic habitats.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.36
• Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)
• Typically near stored foodstuffs.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.37
• Click Beetle (Oedostethus sp.)
• Click beetles are elongate and narrow bodied wth a rounded head and pointed elytra.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.38
• Click Beetle (Ampedus cordifer)
• Found in boreal forest, parkland groves; larvae under bark of dead poplar logs.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.39
• Gold and Brown Rove Beetle (Ontholestes cingulatus)
• Clumps of hair forms dark spots on much of body. Yellow hair forms "belt" under thorax, covers parts of last abdominal segments. Head wider than pronotum. Often turns yellow tip of abdomen upward when walking... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.40
• Rove Beetle (Carpelimus sp.)
• Most species have the habit of running with the tip of the abdomen curled up and over the body in a "threatening" manner.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.41
• Rove Beetle (Ahenomorphus corticinus)
• Rove beetles have a narrow, elongate body and the short elytra that leaves virtually all the abdomen exposed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.42
• Rove Beetle (Family Staphylinidae)
• Rove beetles have a narrow, elongate body and the short elytra that leaves virtually all the abdomen exposed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.43
• Rove Beetle (Xantholinus linearus)
• Rove beetles have a narrow, elongate body and the short elytra that leaves virtually all the abdomen exposed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.44
• Rove Beetle (Xantholinus linearus)
• The scarab beetles are extremely variable in size, shape and colorazation... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.45
• Pedunculate Ground Beetle (Scarites sp.)
• Distinctive body form and huge jaws, elytra deeply striated.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.46
• Ground Beetle (Bradycellus sp.)
• These beetles are variable in form, but most are more or less broadly elongate and at least partly black. Antennae are threadlike and attached to the side of the head.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.47
• Ground Beetle (Bradycellus sp.)
• These beetles are variable in form, but most are more or less broadly elongate and at least partly black. Antennae are threadlike and attached to the side of the head.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.48
• Black–spotted Lady Bug (Coccinella sp.)
• Adults comparatively large (7-8 mm) with a white or pale spot on either side of the head.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.49
• Fifteen–spotted Lady Bug (Harmonia axyridis)
• Adults comparatively large (7-8 mm) with a white or pale spot on either side of the head.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.50
• Convergent Ladybird Beetle (Hippodamia convergens)
• Full complement of 13 spots or only a few. The white lines that converge behind the head are common to all individuals.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.51
• Ladybird Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
• Full complement of 13 spots or only a few. The white lines that converge behind the head are common to all individuals.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.52
• Round–necked Long–horned Beetle (Typocerus octonotatus)
• These small to large beetles are generally elongate and narrow, with long antennae at least as long as the body.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.53
• Long–horned Beetle (Saperda calcarata)
• Largest of its genus. Prominent spines at tips of elytra. Coloration variable, pastel hues.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.54
• Goldsmith Beetle (Cotalpa lanigera)
• A large yellow/green scarab with no elytral markings. Elytra has irregular rows of punctures.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.55
• Tumblebug (Canthon pilularius)
• A large Canthon, generally dull black, southern specimens often green, small eyes, not attracted to lights.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.56
• June Beetle (Polyphylli hammondi)
• Widespread in w. US, with isolated populations east of the Mississippi River... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.57
• Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
• Distinctive, bright orange with black lines. Body of butterfly is black.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.58
• Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
• Distinctive, bright orange with black lines. Body of butterfly is black.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.59
• Viceroy (Limenitis archippus)
• Has orange wings and resembles the Monarch but is smaller and has a black line across the upper surface of the hindwing.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.60
• Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
• Very large, bright yellow with black stripes.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.61
• Ornate Tiger Moth (Grammia ornata)
• Wings appear black, typically with a net-like pattern of extensive yellowish or rosy off-white transverse lines and thinner pale veins.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.62
• White Admiral (Limenitis arthemis)
• Wings are black with broad white bands on the wings and red spots located on the hind wing.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.63
• Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)
• Adult dark brown or purplish-black with yellow borders and blue submarginal spots... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.64
• Straight–lined Tiger Moth (Apantesis sp.)
• Medium-sized tiger moths with very dark forewings. Identification of species is difficult.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.65
• Big Poplar Sphinx (Pachysphinx modesta)
• Adult: forewing gray with basal third lighter; outer third sometimes light also, leaving just median band dark hindwing gray with crimson patch and inward-pointing bluish-black triangle near outer margin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.66
• Great–spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
• The most common encountered species of fritillary is the Great-spangled Fritillary which is orangish with black markings above and with white spangles and a broard yellowish band on the underside of the hind wing.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.67
• Tobacco Hornworm Moth (Manduca sexta)
• Adult: Large. Forewing gray with indistinct black lines and brown shading; usually has six pairs of yellow spots on abdomen. Hindwing small, banded black and white, with two black zigzag median lines very close together... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.68
• Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
• Adult: large, brown, with a small round eyespot near the middle of the forewing, and a huge round or elliptical eyespot near the middle of the hindwing. Males (below, left) have much smaller bodies but much larger and more feathery antennae than do f... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.69
• Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
• Adult: large, brown, with a small round eyespot near the middle of the forewing, and a huge round or elliptical eyespot near the middle of the hindwing. Males (below, left) have much smaller bodies but much larger and more feathery antennae than do f... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.70
• Virginia Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginica)
• Ctenucha moths are very common in our part of Wisconsin. They’re day-flying moths, with smooth gray/black wings, a fuzzy orange head, and a shiny dark blue neck and body.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.71
• Sweetheart Underwing (Catocala amatrix)
• Forewing grayish to purplish-brown with wavy black lines; typical form has diffuse broken black band running from basal area to apex; form "selecta" lacks this band, form "pallida" is very pale, form "hesseli" is very dark (melanic) hindwing pinkish... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.72
• Hummingbird Moth (Hemaris thysbe)
• Forewing clear area has partial crossband of dark scales near base, and distal margin of clear area is uneven or ragged-edged.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.73
• Common Sulphur (Colias philodice)
• Yellow or white with wings bordered dark brown on top; each wing has a spot near the middle, dark on the front wings, and yellowish to orange on the hind wings. Wings ventrally without dark borders; usually paler than above, usually with a row of dar... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.74
• Cerisy's Sphinx Moth (Smerinthus cerisyi)
• Adult: Foreward wing a cryptic mix of pale gray and dark brown with cross vein at end of discal cell; other veins toward outer margin usually outlined in paler brown. Hind wing eyespot blue, usually with black bull's eye in middle, and thick black ou... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.75
• Bianca Underwing (Catocala relicta)
• Black and white bands on hindwing distinctive. Forewing variable, white to gray. Thoracic area dark.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.76
• White–lined Sphinx (Hyles lineata)
• The front wing has a prominent tan band from base to tip and white scales along the veins.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.77
• Cabbage Butterfy (Pieris rapae)
• Adult: upperside of wings white or pale yellowish-white with black tip on forewing; upperside of female forewing has two black spots; male has one. Both sexes have one black spot well out along front margin on upperside of hindwing. Underside of for... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.78
• Compton Tortoise Shell (Nymphalis l–album)
• Adult: upperside orangish-brown with large black spots and dark brown wing bases; thin submarginal dark band with golden spots along inner edge; leading edge of each wing has single white spot; underside mottled or marbled gray and brown, with dark b... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.79
• Common Skimmer (Libellula sp.)
• Wings are longer than the length of the body. The wings are often banded or spotted.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.80
• Broad–winged Damselfly (Calopteryx sp.)
• Found along wooded slow-moving streams and small rivers; nymphs develop in water; adults often perch on low shrubbery in sun-lit openings in forest canopy... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.81
• Green Darner (Anax junius)
• Adults are strong flyers and may be found anywhere but are more common near larval habitat: still marshy waters, fresh and slightly brackish.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.82
• Twelve–spotted Skimmer (Libellula pulchella)
• Mature males have twelve brown wing spots, as well as eight white wing spots. The basal area of the hind wing is also whitish. Females and immature males have the twelve brown wing spots but not the white spots. Their abdomens are brown with a yel... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.83
• Clubtail (Gomphus sp.)
• The common name for this family comes from those species that have the tip of the abdomen enlarged and clublike. Most species are large and darkly colored, with green or yellow stripes.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.84
• Narrow–winged Damselfly (Argia sp.)
• The Narrow-winged Damselfly is easily indentified in the field by their wing posture. The wings are held together above the abdomen. Most species are brightly colored in blue, black or violet.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.85
• Narrow–winged Damselfly (Argia sp.)
• The Narrow-winged Damselfly is easily indentified in the field by their wing posture. The wings are held together above the abdomen. Most species are brightly colored in blue, black or violet.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.86
• Skimmer (Family Libellulidae)
• This is the most common family of dragonfly. This species was not identified any further than family.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.87
• Green Lacewing (Chrysopa sp.)
• Green lacewings are medium sized with greenish bodies and wings. They are raised commercially and sold as biological control agents throughout the U.S.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.88
• Stonefly (Family Perlidae)
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.89
• Small Milkweed Bug (Lygaeus kalmii)
• Adult: dark gray to black with broad orange or red band on forewing, forming an "X" shape that doesn't quite meet in the middle; head black with dull red spot on top, sometimes extending down onto face; pronotum with red transverse band, bordered ant... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.90
• Ambush Bug (Lophoscutus sp.)
• These medium-sized bugs hide in flower heads, from which they ambush their prey.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.91
• Squash Bug (Euthochtha galeator)
• These medium to large sized bugs are usually heavy bodied and elongate.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.92
• Plant Bug (Compsidolon salocellum)
• There is an incredible amount of variation amoung the many gernera and species. However, all members of this bug family share one common diagnostic characteristic: the membrane of the forewing has a mall number of veins arranged into one or two clos... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.93
• Plant Bug (Compsidolon salocellum)
• There is an incredible amount of variation amoung the many gernera and species. However, all members of this bug family share one common diagnostic characteristic: the membrane of the forewing has a mall number of veins arranged into one or two clos... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.94
• Plant Bug (Compsidolon salocellum)
• There is an incredible amount of variation amoung the many gernera and species. However, all members of this bug family share one common diagnostic characteristic: the membrane of the forewing has a mall number of veins arranged into one or two clos... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.96
• Water Boatman (Family Corixidae)
• Body elongate and oval, dorsal surface flattened, with narrow dark crosslines. Front legs short, tarsi 1-segmented and scoop-shaped. Hind legs elongate, oar-like, with fine hairs. This is identified only to family as there are 49 species in Wisconsi... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.99
• Backswimmer (Notonecta sp.)
• These medium-sized elongate, keel-shaped aquatic bugs are unique in their habit of swimming upside down.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.100
• Backswimmer (Notonecta sp.)
• These medium-sized elongate, keel-shaped aquatic bugs are unique in their habit of swimming upside down.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.101
• Wheel Bug (Arilus cristatus)
• The "wheel" on the adult insect's back is unmistakable. Immature nymphs are mostly red. Adults are gray to brown.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.102
• Ferocious Water Bug (Lethocerus sp.)
• Forewings cover all of abdomen except for two tube-like appendages at posterior end that function in breathing atmospheric air which is then stored in a bubble beneath the wings... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.103
• Ferocious Water Bug (Lethocerus sp.)
• Forewings cover all of abdomen except for two tube-like appendages at posterior end that function in breathing atmospheric air which is then stored in a bubble beneath the wings... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.104
• Seed Bug (Ozophora sp.)
• Seed bugs are small to medium-sized bugs that are generally brownish, although some are birghtly colored.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.105
• Giant Water Bug (Belostoma bakeri)
• Giant water bugs are elongate-oval, more or less flattened, and brownish or greenish.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.106
• Brown Water Scorpion (Ranatra fusca)
• These aquatic bugs are easily recognized by the elongate breathing tube at the tip of the abdomen. Sometimes they sit in ambush, with the breathing tue at the surface and the head directed downward.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.107
• Stink Bug (Euschistus sp.)
• These common bugs are small- to medium-sized greenish or brownish insects that are characteristically shield shaped.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.108
• Common Water Strider (Trebobates subnitidis)
• No pale lateral stripe on the mesonotum immediately following the dark lateral pronotal stripe... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.109
• Common Water Strider (Trebobates subnitidis)
• No pale lateral stripe on the mesonotum immediately following the dark lateral pronotal stripe... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.110
• Assassin Bug (Sinea sp.)
• This family includes small to large bugs that are colored in various shades of brown or blackish.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 1996.02.111
• Assassin Bug (Sinea sp.)
• This family includes small to large bugs that are colored in various shades of brown or blackish.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.112
• Brochymena (Brochymena sp.)
• Reddish-brown or gray, bark-like.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.113
• Spined Soldier Bug (Podisus maculiventris)
• Pale brown to tan. Shield shaped with prominent "shoulders" Black streak on wing membrane... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.114
• Scarlet and Green Leafhopper (Graphocephala sp.)
• Pale brown to tan. Shield shaped with prominent "shoulders" Black streak on wing membrane... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.115
• Froghopper or Spittle Bug (Philaenus spumarius)
• The adults are small and froglike. Their bodies are elliptical and greenish or brownish, and they actively hop about.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.116
• Froghopper or Spittle Bug (Philaenus spumarius)
• The adults are small and froglike. Their bodies are elliptical and greenish or brownish, and they actively hop about.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.117
• Planthopper (Alphina sp.)
• Not much known of this Family. Likely found around sygamore.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.118
• Planthopper (Alphina sp.)
• Not much known of this Family. Likely found around sygamore.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.119
• Treehopper (Cyrtolobulus vanduzeei)
• Treehoppers may appear thornlike, humpbacked or lobed. Both pairs of wings are membranous and they are usually covered by the pronotum. These are jumping insects.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.120
• Treehopper (Cyrtolobulus vanduzeei)
• Treehoppers may appear thornlike, humpbacked or lobed. Both pairs of wings are membranous and they are usually covered by the pronotum. These are jumping insects.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.121
• Leafhopper (Allygus mixtus)
• Leafhoppers are mostly small elongate, and greenish, brownish or brightly colored (striped). The hind tibia has many rows of small spines and are suited for jumping,... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.122
• Planthopper (alpina sp.)
• Not much known of this Family. Likely found around sygamore.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.123
• Cicada (Okanagana sp.)
• Cicadas have a heavy robust body and four membranous wings. The males produce loud, sometimes shrill, monotonous buzzing noises during daylight hours.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.124
• Cicada (Okanagana sp.)
• Cicadas have a heavy robust body and four membranous wings. The males produce loud, sometimes shrill, monotonous buzzing noises during daylight hours.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.125
• Thorn–Mimic Treehopper (Camplenchia latipes)
• The only species in the east with this appearance (forward-pointing horn). Hind legs are spiny, front legs are leaf-like.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.126
• Partridge Scolops (Scolops sp.)
• The wing margin has dark markings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.128
• Leafhopper (Allygus mixtus)
• Leafhoppers are mostly small elongate, and greenish, brownish or brightly colored (striped). The hind tibia has many rows of small spines and are suited for jumping,... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.129
• Buffalo Treehopper (Ceresa tauriniformis)
• Leafhoppers are mostly small elongate, and greenish, brownish or brightly colored (striped). The hind tibia has many rows of small spines and are suited for jumping,... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.130
• Locust Treehopper (Thelia bimaculata)
• This species lives its entire life cycle on Locust, usually on younger trees. They seem to prefer trees that get some sunshine, avoiding trees in the deep woods. A single tree may host close to 500 individuals.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.131
• Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sp.)
• Adult females hibernate when temperature is not consistently above freezing, typically from late October to early April.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.132
• Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sp.)
• Adult females hibernate when temperature is not consistently above freezing, typically from late October to early April.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.133
• Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sp.)
• Adult females hibernate when temperature is not consistently above freezing, typically from late October to early April.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.134
• Ichneumon Wasp (Ichneumon sp.)
• Adult females hibernate when temperature is not consistently above freezing, typically from late October to early April.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.135
• Giant Ichneumon Wasp (Mygarhyssa sp.)
• The giant ichneumon is distinctive in both size and coloration. The ovipositor of the female is exceptionally long (much longer than the body).... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.136
• Sandhills Hornet (Vespula sp.)
• Workers and males lack free spots on the abdomen. Wide anchor-shaped black marking with narrow base on first abdominal tergite is diagnostic. Queens have free black spots on abdominal tergites, but show the distinctive anchor-shaped markings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.137
• Eastern Sand Wasp (Bembix americana spinolae)
• Bembix is a large cosmopolitan genus of large, often brightly colored predatory sand wasps, consisting of about 380 species.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.138
• Short–tailed Ichneumon (Ophion sp.)
• "Abdomen long, compressed on the sides. Body pale yellow to reddish brown. Antennae and legs long, pale. Ovipositor of female barely visible at tip of abdomen. Wings clear."... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.139
• Short–tailed Ichneumon (Ophion sp.)
• "Abdomen long, compressed on the sides. Body pale yellow to reddish brown. Antennae and legs long, pale. Ovipositor of female barely visible at tip of abdomen. Wings clear."... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.140
• American Pelecinid (Pelecinus polyturator)
• Female is distinctive--abdomen 5X the length of the rest of the body. Abdomen has six segments. Males are smaller, with swollen tip of abdomen; they are seldom seen. Hindwings of both sexes very short, 1/3 length of forewings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.141
• Three–waisted Wasp (Spex sp.)
• A robust sphecid, frequent on flowers and very active. Head and thorax have golden hair. Abdomen black with orange/red on first segment.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.142
• Steel–blue Cricket Hunter (Chlorion aerarium)
• - Male: face with silvery appressed pubescence. - Female: mesopleural surface ridged or wrinkled between punctures; pronotum and scutum with coarse, rather dense punctures, at least anteriorly... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.143
• Virescent Green Metallic Bee (Agapostemon virescens)
• Males: Hind femora slender, fully three times as long as the greatest width. Females: Abdomen black, with pale basal fasciae.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.144
• Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
• Traits cited in identifications on this site (not all unique to this species): hairy eyes pollen carried in a ball on the legs a long radial cell near the front wingtip... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.145
• Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
• Traits cited in identifications on this site (not all unique to this species): hairy eyes pollen carried in a ball on the legs a long radial cell near the front wingtip... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.146
• Bald Faced Hornet (Vespula maculata)
• Black with white markings on the head, thorax, and the last few segments of the abdomen (male with white on the first abdominal segment). Wings smoky. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.147
• Red–tailed Bumblebee (Bombus sp.)
• Worker is very similar to queen but smaller. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.148
• Yellow Jacket (Vespula sp.)
• Females excavate cavities in soil to use as nests. Hunting sites include flowers, natural bee nests and apiaries. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.149
• Golden Bumblebee (Bombus fervidus)
• The face and head are mostly black and there is a narrow, well-defined black interalar band across the thorax between the wings. The yellow hairs of the thorax and abdomen are lemony-yellow (vs. darker golden-tan in pensylvanicus). The abdomen (back... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.150
• Dolichometus (Dolichomitus sp.)
• Member of the Ichneumonidae family a very large family of parasitic wasps. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.151
• Augochlora Green Metallic Bee (Augochlora pura)
• It burrows in wood. Mated females overwinter in wood. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.152
• Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.)
• Bumblebees are social insects which form colonies with a single queen. Colonies are smaller than those of honeybees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.153
• Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.)
• Bumblebees are social insects which form colonies with a single queen. Colonies are smaller than those of honeybees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.154
• Leafcutting Bee (Megachila sp.)
• North America has many native megachilid species, but alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the orchard mason bee or blue orchard bee), which... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.155
• Leafcutting Bee (Megachila sp.)
• North America has many native megachilid species, but alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination. The most significant native species is Osmia lignaria (the orchard mason bee or blue orchard bee), which... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.156
• Leafcutting Bee (Megachila sp.)
• Nests in woodlands and savannas. It is fairly common around human habitations, especially where exposed wood is present and can be used for nest material. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.163
• Tachinid Fly (Belvosia sp.)
• Tachinid flies are extremely varied in appearance. Some adult flies may be brilliantly colored . Most however are rather drab, some resembling house flies. However, Tachinid flies commonly are more bristly and more robust. Also, they usually have a c... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.164
• Robber Fly (Efferia benedicti)
• "The very short bristles on the front half of the top of the thorax, the gray body and the male's silver-white abdomen with white-parted hairs is diagnostic in the northern part of its range (BC and Washington), where no other Efferia species looks l... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.165
• Robber Fly (Efferia benedicti)
• "The very short bristles on the front half of the top of the thorax, the gray body and the male's silver-white abdomen with white-parted hairs is diagnostic in the northern part of its range (BC and Washington), where no other Efferia species looks l... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.166
• Robber Fly (Machimus sp.)
• The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.167
• Robber Fly (Diogmites sp.)
• The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.168
• March Fly (Bibio sp.)
• All but three North American species of Bibio fly in the spring and early summer. Males are all black and have swollen hind tarsi. Males are distinguished by color of body hair (pale in longipes, dark in slossonae). Females are distinguished by colo... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.169
• March Fly (Bibio sp.)
• All but three North American species of Bibio fly in the spring and early summer. Males are all black and have swollen hind tarsi. Males are distinguished by color of body hair (pale in longipes, dark in slossonae). Females are distinguished by colo... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.170
• Mosquito (Aedes sp.)
• Adult: - abdomen pointed - prespiracular setae absent ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.171
• Mosquito (Aedes sp.)
• Adult: - abdomen pointed - prespiracular setae absent ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.173
• Bee Fly (Conoporus sp.)
• The Bombyliidae are a family of flies. Their common name is bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae generally are parasitoids of other insects. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.174
• Deer Fly (Chrysops sp.)
• Markings on thorax grayish yellow instead of bright yellow. Apical wing spot reduced to a narrow crescent along the wing margin. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.175
• Deer Fly (Chrysops sp.)
• Markings on thorax grayish yellow instead of bright yellow. Apical wing spot reduced to a narrow crescent along the wing margin. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.176
• Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
• Looks much like a honeybee. Adults feed on nectar, larvae feed on rotting organic material in stagnant water ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.177
• Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
• Looks much like a honeybee. Adults feed on nectar, larvae feed on rotting organic material in stagnant water ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.178
• Black Fly (Simulium sp.)
• Female has dark stripes on gray scutum (median dark stripe, inner lateral stripes wider at rear, outer lateral stripes wider at front). Black spots on abdomen. White patch on front tibia. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.179
• Midge (Goeldichironomus sp.)
• The three black marks on the side of the thorax are distinctive. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.180
• Midge (Goeldichironomus sp.)
• The three black marks on the side of the thorax are distinctive. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.181
• House Fly (Musca domestica)
• Members of this group are often abundant in and around dwellings. Most are medium sized and grayish or brownish in color (never metallic). Members of this family are best distinguished on the basis of their wing venation and the presence of certain... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.182
• House Fly (Musca domestica)
• Members of this group are often abundant in and around dwellings. Most are medium sized and grayish or brownish in color (never metallic). Members of this family are best distinguished on the basis of their wing venation and the presence of certain... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.183
• Green Bottle Fly (Lucilia sericata)
• Most of the flies in this family can be readily distinguished by their metallic coloration (green, blue or black). Larvae are used to clean up wounds. They only feed on partially decomposed tissue, leaving the healthy one alone. They are used in fo... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.184
• Blue Bottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria)
• Most of the flies in this family can be readily distinguished by their metallic coloration (green, blue or black). Larvae are used to clean up wounds. They only feed on partially decomposed tissue, leaving the healthy one alone. They are used in fo... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.185
• Beelike Tachinid Fly (Hystricia abrupta)
• These medium- to large-sized flies can be recognized by the combination of an enlarged, bulbous swelling on the rear of the thorax-best seen from the side-the bare arista of the last antennal segment, and the stout bristles on the thorax and abdomen.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.186
• Little House Fly (Fannia canicularis)
• The lesser house fly, also called the little house fly, is noticeably smaller than the standard housefly (Musca domestica). It is approximately 5 to 6 mm in length and yellowish in coloration. The lesser house fly’s thorax hosts three black stripes. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.187
• Crane Fly (Tipula sp.)
• Crane Flies (Tipulidae) are delicate insects varying in size from ¼ inch to as large as 1½ inches in length. The largest crane flies are sometimes called "daddy-long-legs". They do not bite people and they do not eat mosquitoes. Some species of crane... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.188
• Horse Fly (Tabanus catenatus)
• Horse flies varying in length from about ½ to 1 ¼ inches long, are black or gray in color and often have large, brilliant green eyes. The blood feeding female horse fly is equipped with blade-like mouthparts, which slash tissues and blood vessels and... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.189
• Large Bee Fly (Bombylius major)
• The Large Bee Fly - Bombylius major, can at first sighting, easily be mistaken for a bee. Indeed, there are a number of bee species with very similar, gingery colouring. Like other bee mimics, Bombylius major has a furry body, and can be seen v... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.190
• Black Horse Fly (Tabanus sp.)
• Horse flies varying in length from about ½ to 1 ¼ inches long, are black or gray in color and often have large, brilliant green eyes. The blood feeding female horse fly is equipped with blade-like mouthparts, which slash tissues and blood vessels and... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.191
• Oblong–winged Katydid (Amblycorypha oblongifolia)
• This katydid, which is 42 to 52 mm in length, is the most widely distributed of a group of four Amblycorypha species that exceed 40 mm in length and have relatively broad forewings . It is found around the edges of freshwater and salt marshes, in wet... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.192
• Spotted Camel Cricket (Ceuthophilus maculatus)
• Camel crickets are related to cave crickets and occur across the US, all continents, and most islands. They like moist, dark, and damp environments which explains why you find them in garages and basements. The most common species here in the US is t... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.193
• Spotted Camel Cricket (Ceuthophilus maculatus)
• Camel crickets are related to cave crickets and occur across the US, all continents, and most islands. They like moist, dark, and damp environments which explains why you find them in garages and basements. The most common species here in the US is t... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.194
• Field Cricket (Gyllus sp.)
• Field Crickets are the crickets everyone sees and hears in late Summer and Fall. They grow up to an inch long, and are black and brown. They have large hind legs and two cerci (spiky things coming out of the back of their abdomens). Female Field Cri... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.195
• House Cricket (Acheta domesticus)
• House crickets get their common name from the fact that they often enter houses where they can survive indefinitely. Interestingly, they are known for their loud chirping which is caused by rubbing their front wings together to attract females. head... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.196
• American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
• Adult American cockroaches are reddish brown or mahogany colored. The area behind their heads is outlined with yellow band. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.197
• Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis)
• The Differential Grasshopper is one of many common grasshopper species in our area. This hopper grows up to 1 3/4 inches long. It is a shiny brownish-yellow with yellow or red antennae. The hind legs are yellow with black chevrons (v-shapes). Diff... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.198
• Slant–faced Grasshopper (Amphitornus sp.)
• The slant-faced grasshoppers, are characterized by a slanted face and clear hind wings. They are usually found around marshes and wet meadows in small numbers and do little damage to vegetation. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1996.02.199
• Walking Stick (Diapheromera femorata)
• The Northern Walkingstick is our most common "stick insect," which camouflages itself to look like a stick. Northern Walkingsticks grow over 3 1/2 inches long, with males being smaller than females. Walkingsticks have long, skinny bodies which close... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.01.01
• Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
• Dry mount on pin with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.04.01
• White Admiral (Limenitis arthemis)
• Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.05.01
• Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.08.01
• Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.08.02
• Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.09.01
• American Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
• Dry mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.10.01
• Flower Beetle (Trichiotinus sp.)
• Dry mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.12.01
• Bronzed Tiger Beetle (Cicindela repanda)
• Dry mounted on a pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.14.01
• Green Lacewing (Family Chrysopidae)
• Dry mount is mounted on paper point.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.15.01
• Green Pubescent Ground Beetle (Chlaenius sericeus)
• Dry mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.17.0
• Common Baskettail (Epitheca cynosura)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.17.01
• Large Whirligig Beetle (Gyrinus sp.)
• Dry mount found in straits of Garmish, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1996.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.17.02
• Green–eyed Skimmer (Epitheca)
• The emerald dragonflies or green-eyed skimmers. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.18.01
• Tarnished Plant Bug (Lygus lineolaris)
• Dry mounted on paper point.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.19.01
• Mayfly (Hexagenia)
• There are several species of Mayflies. Most have bold striped pattern on thorax but wings are not uniformly dark. Antennae, legs, and tails yellow.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.20.01
• Flag–tailed Spinyleg (Dromogomphus spoliatus)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1996. Mounted with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.22.01
• Flower long–horned Beetle (Subfamily Lepturinae)
• Dry mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.23.01
• Darner Dragonfly (Family Aeshnidae)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.24.01
• Leaf Beetle (Family Chrysomelidae)
• Dry mounted on pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.25.01
• Common Stonefly (Family Perlidae)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.26.01
• Eastern Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus)
• Dry mounted on pins.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.27.01
• Broad–winged Damselfly (Calopteryx)
• Dry mounted on pin with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.28.01
• Firefly (Photinus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1997.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.29.01
• Leaf Bug
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1997.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.30.01
• Leafhopper (Arthysanus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1997. Specimen so small it is mounted on piece of paper.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.31.01
• Spur–throated Grasshopper (Melanoplus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1997.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.32.01
• Spur–throated Grasshopper (Melonoplus yarrowii)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1997.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1997.33.01
• Great Tiger Moth (Arctia caja)
• Dry mount found in Sawyer County, Wisconsin in July 1997.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.01
• St. Lawrence Tiger Moth (Arctia sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.02
• Promethea Moth (Callosamia promethea)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.03
• Underwing (Catocala sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1988. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.04
• Polyphemus Moth (Antheraea polyphemus)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1988. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.05
• Spotted Tiger Moth (Pyrrharctia sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.06
• Tiger Moth (Pyrharctia sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.07
• White–dotted Prominent (Nadata gibbosa)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.08
• Sulphur Moth (Hesperumia sulphuraria)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.09
• Variegated Cutworm (Peridroma saucia)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.10
• Snowy Geometer Moth (Eugonobata nevosaria)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.11
• Western Furcula (Furcula)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.12
• Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.13
• Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.14
• Lyman's Haploa (Haploa confusa)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.15
• Alfalfa Looper Moth (Autographa californica)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.16
• Owlet Moth (Plusia)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings closed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.17
• White–headed Prominent Moth (Symmerista albiforns)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.18
• Polyphemus Moth (Tilea polyphemus)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.20
• Gordian Sphinx
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County on 6/25/1998. Displayed with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.21
• Spotted Spragueia (Spragueia guttata)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in 6/1998.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.22
• Virginian Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginia)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.23
• Virginia
  Virginia Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginica)
• Body metallic blue, including some on thorax.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.01.24
• Underwing (Catocala)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.02.03
• Underwing (Catocala sp.)
• Displayed with wings spread. No capture information on tags.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.02.15
• Alfalfa Looper Moth (Autographa californica)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.02.16
• Owlet Moth (Plusia)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.02.17
• White–headed Prominent Moth (Symmerista albifrons)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.02.18
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• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1998. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.03.03
• Underwing (Caocala sp.)
• No capture information on tags. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1998.48.01
• Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth (Malacosoma disstria)
• Larvae feed on leaves of alder, basswood, birch, cherry, oak, poplar, willow... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.01
• Horntail (Tremex colomba)
• No capture information on tags.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.02
• Horntail (Tremex colomba)
• Dry mount found in the town of Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.03
• Carpenter Bee
• Dry mount found in town of Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.04
• Horse Fly (Tabanus atratus)
• Black or nearly black in color including the wings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.05
• Horse Fly (Tabinius sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings straight back.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.07
• Deer Fly (Chrysops sp.)
• Dry mount found in town of Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings back.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.08
• Syrphid Fly (Allograpta obliqua )
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.09
• Syrphid Fly (Syrphus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.10
• Syrphid Fly
• Dry mount that was found in Stone Lake, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with wings out.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.11
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.12
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.13
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.14
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin on July 1999. Displayed with wings slightly spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.15
• Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.16
• Marsh Fly (Tetanocera plebeja)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1995. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 1999.01.18
• Robber Fly (Laphria sacrator)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1995. Displayed with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.01.01
• Click Beetle (Melanotus sp.)
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.01.02
• Click Beetle (Melanotus sp.)
• The depressed, weakened middle of the frontal margin (when viewed from the front) is the bext external character for this species.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.01.03
• Click Beetle (Melanotus sp.)
• The depressed, weakened middle of the frontal margin (when viewed from the front) is the bext external character for this species.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.02.01
• Ichneumon Wasp (Ophion sp.)
• "Abdomen long, compressed on the sides. Body pale yellow to reddish brown. Antennae and legs long, pale.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.03.01
• camel cricket
• Hump-backed large crickets with long antennae and very long legs. Wingless... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.04.01
• Bot Fly (Cuterebra sp.)
• Large flies, typically bumble bee size.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.04.02
• Bot Fly (Cuterebra sp.)
• Large flies, typically bumble bee size.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.04.03
• Bot Fly (Cuterebra)
• Large flies, typically bumble bee size.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.05.01
• Katydid (Scudderia pistillata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.06.01
• Caddis Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with left wing spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.07.01
• Caddisfly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Washburn in July 2000. Displayed with left wing spread out.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.08.01
• Burrowing Mayfly (Hexagenia)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000. Displayed with wings closed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.09.01
• Common Sawfly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Washburn in June 20000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.11.01
• March Fly (Bibio)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.11.02
• March Fly (Bibio femoritus)
• Females have dark wings, black along the leading edge if not entirely black.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.12.01
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.12.02
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.12.03
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.12.04
• Blow Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.12.05
• Blow Fly (Lucilia)
• Very common fly often found basking on buildings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.13.01
• Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.13.02
• Flesh Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.13.03
• Flesh Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.13.04
• Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.14.01
• Grasshopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with left wing spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.14.02
• Grasshopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with left wing spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.14.03
• Grasshopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with left wing partially spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.14.04
• Grasshopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with left wing spread.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.01
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.02
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.03
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.04
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.05
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.06
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.07
• Tree Hopper (Cyrtolobus)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.15.08
• Tree Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.16.01
• Plant Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.17.01
• Wood Gnat
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.18.01
• Damsel Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.18.02
• Damsel Fly
• head and body slender, light to dark brown; front femora slightly enlarged... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.18.03
• Damsel Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.00 Collectors name is crossed off tag.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.19.01
• Scentless Stink Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.19.02
• Scentless Stink Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.20.01
• Halictid Bee (Halictus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.20.02
• Halictid Bee
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin on 9/8/2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.20.03
• Halictid Bee (Halictus sp.)
• Dry mount found Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wingspan.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.20.04
• Halictid Bee (Halictus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.20.05
• Halictid Bee
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.21.01
• Tree Hopper
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.01
• Frog Hopper
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.02
• Frog Hopper
• Locally abundant in white pine woods... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.03
• Frog Hopper
• displayed with left wing extended... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.04
• Frog Hopper
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.05
• Frog hopper
• accession sheet is missing from the file. there was a picture so i entered it in. jm... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.06
• Frog Hopper
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.22.07
• Frog Hopper
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.23.01
• Plant Bug
• Identification requires great care. Coloration of the antennae, legs, and hemelytra is extremely useful in recognizing many species, though some species show substantial variation.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.02
• Plant Bug
• Identification requires great care. Coloration of the antennae, legs, and hemelytra is extremely useful in recognizing many species, though some species show substantial variation... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.03
• Plant Bug
• Identification requires great care. Coloration of the antennae, legs, and hemelytra is extremely useful in recognizing many species, though some species show substantial variation... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.04
• Plant Bug
• Small pale green bug with transparent wings... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.05
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.23.06
• Plant Bug
• most "small to minute"... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.07
• Plant Bug
• most "small to minute"... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.08
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.09
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.10
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.11
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.12
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.23.13
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.14
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.23.15
• Plant Bug
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.01
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.02
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.03
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.04
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.05
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.06
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.07
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.08
• Syrphid Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.09
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.10
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.11
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.12
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.13
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.14
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.15
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.16
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2000.24.17
• Syrphid Fly
• Hoverflies, sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while t... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.25.01
• Stink Bug (Tetyra sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Stink bugs are large, oval or shield-shaped insects. They are members of the insect order Hemiptera and the family Pentatomidae. They get their common name from the odor of the... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.25.02
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. They are solitary insects, and most are parasitoids; the larvae feed on or in another insect which finally dies. Being in the same order, ichneumons are closely related to oth... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.25.03
• Stink Bug (Tetyra sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Stink bugs are large, oval or shield-shaped insects. They are members of the insect order Hemiptera and the family Pentatomidae. They get their common name from the odor of the chemi... View Full Record
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• 2000.26.01
• Leaf Beetle (Cerotoma sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.26.02
• Leaf Beetle (Trirhabda sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. The family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 35,000 species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of a... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.26.03
• Leef Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.26.04
• Leaf Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin on August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.26.05
• Leaf Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin on September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.27.01
• Cuckoo Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.27.02
• Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis angolensis)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.29.01
• Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.29.02
• Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.29.03
• Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.29.04
• Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.29.05
• Paper Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.30.01
• Band–winged Grasshopper (Dissosteira carolina)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with left wing out.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.30.02
• Band–winged Grasshopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with left wing spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.01
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.02
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.03
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.04
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.05
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.06
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.33.07
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.34.01
• Assassin Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 20000... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.34.02
• Assassin Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.01
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.02
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.03
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.04
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.05
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.06
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.07
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.08
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.09
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Collector's name is crossed off the tag.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.11
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.12
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.35.13
• Leaf Hopper
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.36.01
• Leaf–cutting Bee
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.36.02
• Leaf–cutting Bee
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.37.01
• Mud–dauber
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.38.02
• Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.39.01
• Tree Cricket (Oecanthus)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with left wing spread out.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.40.01
• Seed Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield, County Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.40.02
• Seed Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.01
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. "Color varying from chestnut to nearly black, depending largely upon the degree of maturity and condition of the specimen, surface moderately shining, distinctly less velvety than i... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.02
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.03
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.04
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.05
• Scarab Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.41.06
• Scarb Beetle (Serica trista)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.42.01
• Tumbling Flower Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. named for their jumping, turning, and tumbling motion when disturbed or caught. These black beetles are small, usually between 3 and 7 mm (0.1 to 0.3 inch) in length, and are mo... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.01
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.02
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.03
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.04
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.06
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.44.08
• Ladybird Beetle (Chelymorpha cassidea)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.01
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County,Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.02
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.03
• Ichnemon Wasp
• Dry mount found Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.04
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.05
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.45.06
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.46.01
• Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long, branched setae), called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have aposematic (warning) coloration, often consis... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.46.02
• Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long, branched setae), called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have aposematic (warning) coloration, often consisti... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.46.03
• Bumble Bee ( Bombus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long, branched setae), called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have aposematic (warning) coloration, often consistin... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.46.04
• Bumble Bee (Bombus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.47.01
• Sphecid Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.47.02
• Sphecid Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.47.03
• Sphecid Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.48.01
• Bald–faced Hornet (Dolichovespula sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.49.01
• Shield Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.49.02
• Shield–backed Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.50.01
• Darner Dragonfly (Epiaeschna heros)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wings open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.51.01
• Spider Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.51.02
• Spider Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.52.01
• Short–tailed Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.52.02
• Short–tailed Ichneumon Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.53.01
• Ladybird Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayside County, Wisconsin in September 2000.This species complex can usually be identified by a black marking connecting at the suture in an apical spot. (In other words, where the wingtips meet at the rear end of the abdome... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.54.01
• Yellow Jacket
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. They have mostly aerial nests, from a few centimeters above ground to the tops or trees, or houses or sheds. But in some cases they build ne... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.54.02
• Yellow Jacket
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.55.01
• Tiphiid Wasp
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.56.01
• Burying Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 2000.Elytral epipleura wide and usually entirely orange/red but occasionally a prebasal black spot extends down from basal black band; posterior elytral spot reaches epipleuron; stout... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.57.02
• Morning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.58.01
• Great Spangled Frtillary (Speyeria cybele)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.59.01
• Scorpion Fly (Panorpa sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Adult: most species are tan with black-marked clear wings, held in swept-back position at rest. Males have odd curled abdomen, held in an upward recurved position, and the last seg... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.59.02
• Scorpion Fly (Panorpa)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.60.01
• Thick headed fly (Physocephala sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.61.01
• Green Lace Wing
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.62.01
• Lace Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.63.01
• Bald–faced Hornet
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. Black with white markings on the head, thorax, and the last few segments of the abdomen (male with white on the first abdominal segment) (1). Win... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.64.01
• Ambush Bug
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.64.02
• Ambush Bug (Phymata fasciata)
• Predatory bugs with dilated raptorial forelegs, clubbed antennae, and rear half of abdomen expanded (much wider than wings). Antennae are 4-segmented, beak 3-segmented, tarsi 3-segmented. Typically wait for prey on vegetation, especially flowers.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.64.03
• Ambush Bug (Phymata fasciata)
• Predatory bugs with dilated raptorial forelegs, clubbed antennae, and rear half of abdomen expanded (much wider than wings). Antennae are 4-segmented, beak 3-segmented, tarsi 3-segmented. Typically wait for prey on vegetation, especially flowers.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.65.01
• Soldier Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. The soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are relatively soft-bodied, straight-sided beetles. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. One of the first described species has a color pattern... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.65.02
• Soldier Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.65.03
• Soldier Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.66.01
• Crane Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Crane Flies look like giant mosquitoes, but they aren't. They are flies, same as mosquitoes, but otherwise are very different. Crane Flies grow up to 2 1/2 inches long, with a win... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.66.02
• Crane Fly (Dolochopeza)
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.67.01
• Thread Waist Wasp (Ammophila sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.67.02
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• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.68.01
• Horse Fly (Tabanus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.68.02
• Horse Fly (Tabanus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.69.01
• Bee Fly (Anastoechus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings down. Like some bumblebees they are brown and furry and they make a buzzing sound when flying. But unlike them they have only two wings instead of four, large e... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.69.02
• Bee Fly (Anastoechus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings up. Like some bumblebees they are brown and furry and they make a buzzing sound when flying. But unlike them they have only two wings instead of four, large e... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.69.03
• Bee Fly (Anastoechus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.69.04
• Bee Fly (Anastoechus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.69.05
• Bee Fly (Anastoechus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings down.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.70.01
• Long–legged Fly (Argyra sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. The species are rather frequent on moist soil and herbaceous foliage near streams, ponds, and lakes... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.70.02
• Long–legged Fly (Argyra sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.71.01
• Horntail (urocerus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings closed. Horntails get their name from the projection on the back of their abdomen. Many people think it is a stinger. Some people refer to these insects as... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.72.01
• Mosquito (Aedes sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000. Mosquitos have a single pair of wings. They typically have long, thin legs and a head featuring a prominent proboscis. Mosquito bodies and wings most often are covered in tiny sca... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.73.01
• Carpenter Ant (Camponotus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000. Carpenter ants, also known as sugar ants, are large ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world. They build nests inside wood consisting of galleries chewed out with their... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.74.01
• Deer Fly (Chrysops sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Deer fly adults range in size from about ¼ to 1/3 inches long. Their wings are clear, but with dark bands or patches and their bodies are gray or light brown and some species have y... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.75.01
• Boxelder Bug (Boisea sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000. They are bright red or black with narrow reddish lines on the back. Box elder bugs feed principally by sucking juices from the box elder tree, but are sometimes found on other... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.76.02
• Alder fly (Sialis sp.)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County in May 2000. Black or dark brown insects that hold their heavily-veined wings folded roof-like over their backs. Antennae roughly half the body length. Fourth tarsal segment widened, has two lobes.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.01
• Snout Beetle Weevil (Eugnammptus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Weevils are plant-eating beetles with a characteristic long, down-curving snout. The antennae have small clubs and are elbowed. The first segment of the antennae usually fits into a... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.02
• Snout Beetle Weevil (Eugnamptus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Weevils are plant-eating beetles with a characteristic long, down-curving snout. The antennae have small clubs and are elbowed. The first segment of the antennae usually fits into a... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.03
• Snout Beetle Weevil
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Weevils are plant-eating beetles with a characteristic long, down-curving snout. The antennae have small clubs and are elbowed. The first segment of the antennae usually fits into a... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.04
• Snout Beetle Weevil
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Weevils are plant-eating beetles with a characteristic long, down-curving snout. The antennae have small clubs and are elbowed. The first segment of the antennae usually fits into... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.05
• Weevil
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.06
• Weevil
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.07
• Weevil
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.77.08
• Weevil
• Dry mount found in Northwoods Beach, Sawyer County in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.78.01
• Green Bottle Fly (Lucilia sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings up in back.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.79.03
• Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. Upperside of males blue, females with some black at outer edge of forewing. Late spring and summer forms with white above. Underside hindwing gra... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.80.01
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.80.02
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.80.03
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.81.01
• Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. The small white is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.81.02
• Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. The small white is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.81.03
• Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.82.01
• Ant
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.83.01
• Milberts Tortoise Shell
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.84.01
• Eastern–tailed Blue (Cupido comyntas)
• Dry mounted found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. Adult: male's wings above iridescent pale blue with brownish-gray along outer margin; forewings with a short oblique black bar near middle; hind... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.85.01
• June Bug (Phyllophaga sp.)
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Less than one inch in length, is dark brown to blackish in color, have a hard casing and have wings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.86.01
• Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.86.02
• Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.87.01
• Picnic Beetle (Glischrochilus fasciatus)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in April 2000. Picnic beetles are scavengers with a fondness for sweet or fermenting plant juices. Put out the fruit salad, open the pickles, or simply pop the top on your favorite fermented grape... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.88.01
• Red–lined Carrion Beetle (Necrodes surinamensis)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Distinctive, large eyes, dark body with prominent raised elytral ridges, variable red-orange, sometimes yellow, markings on elytra, though these sometimes absent. Sometimes has red t... View Full Record
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• 2000.88.02
• Red–lined Carrion Beetle (necrodes surinamensis)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Distinctive, large eyes, dark body with prominent raised elytral ridges, variable red-orange, sometimes yellow, markings on elytra, though these sometimes absent. Sometimes has red t... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.89.01
• Blue Bottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• 2000.89.02
• Blue Bottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with wings up. Blue bottle flies superficially resemble the house fly but are shiny blue in color. They are commonly found on windows and produce loud, buzzing sound... View Full Record
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• 2000.89.03
• Blue Bottle Fly (Calliphora vomitoria)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Displayed with wings up in back. Blue bottle flies superficially resemble the house fly but are shiny blue in color. They are commonly found on windows and produce loud, buzzi... View Full Record
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• 2000.92.01
• Blinded Spinx (Paonias excaecata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. Outer margins of the forewings are strongly scalloped, with white fringe on the concave part of the scallops. Forewing upperside is pale gray to da... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.92.02
• Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Displayed with wings spread open. Outer margins of the forewings are strongly scalloped, with white fringe on the concave part of the scallops. Forewing upperside is pale gray to da... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.94.01
• Pelecinie Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.95.01
• Scentless Plant Bug (Harmostes sp.)
• Dry mound found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.96.01
• Darkling Beetle
• Dry mound found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.96.02
• Darkling Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.97.01
• Chafer Beetle
• Insect found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.97.02
• Chafer Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.99.01
• Tiger Moth (Grammia sp.)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings spread open.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.100.01
• Ground Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.100.02
• Ground Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.101.01
• Dung Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Scathophagidae are medium-sized or quite small flies with a body length of 3.0 to 12.0 mm. The body is slender, especially in males, usually with an elongate cylindrical abdomen. Man... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.101.02
• Dung Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.101.03
• Dung Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.102.01
• Robber Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking hypopharynx.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.102.02
• Robber Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000. Displayed with wings up.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.103.01
• Deer Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.103.02
• Deer Fly
• Dry mound found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.104.01
• Xyloma Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Xylomyidae is a family of flies known commonly as the wood soldier flies.... View Full Record
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• 2000.105.01
• Andrenid Bee
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Displayed with wings spread open. Sweat Bee, common name for any of a large family of bees, many of which are attracted to the salts in human perspiration.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.105.02
• Cresson's Andrena (Andrena cressonii)
• The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Found in Drummond.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.106.01
• House Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.106.02
• House Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.106.03
• House Fly
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.107.01
• Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Small, with elongated forewings. Upperside yellow with black markings, female with more extensive black than male. White form very rare. Underside of forewing with orange or yel... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.108.01
• False Darkling Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.109.01
• Harlequin Bug (Murgantia histrionica)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Shield-shaped body, up to 3/8" long, brightly colored, typically black and yellow or black and red— color patterns vary with the season.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.110.01
• Western Yellow Jacket (Vespula pensnvania)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 2000. Of the 17 different yellow jacket species in North America, the western yellow jacket is the most common in the western United States. Overall, yellow jackets are easily identified b... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.111.01
• Stone Fly (Acroneruia)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000. Stoneflies have a generalised anatomy, with few specialised features. They have simple mouthparts with chewing mandibles, long, multiple-segmented antennae, large compound eyes, and... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.111.02
• Stone Fly (Acroneuria)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.112.01
• Little Wood Satyr (Magesto cymela)
• The forewing has two yellow-rimmed black eye spots on both sides, dorsal and ventral. The hindwing has two spots on the dorsal side but have smaller spots on the ventral. The other all color is light brown. Found in Cable, Bayfield County in 7/10/200... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.112.02
• Pearly Eye (Lethe eurydice)
• The upperside is brown with dark eyespots and the underside is brown. This specimen was found in Cable, Bayfield County on 7/6/2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.113.01
• Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
• The monarch butterfly is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly. Found in Cable, Bayfield County on 6/13/2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.114.01
• Giant Water Bug (Lethocerus americanus)
• Found across North America in ponds and lakes. If food source runs out it will fly to another body of water.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.115.01
• Damsel Fly (Nabis)
• The head and body are slender, light to dark brown.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.116.01
• Crane Fly (Dolichopaza walleyi)
• This insect has deep gray pleural spots on it's body.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.116.02
• Green Lacewing (Chrysoperia)
• Soft-bodied insects with copper-colored eyes, long thread-like antennae, and lacy wings.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.116.03
• Ichneumon Wasp
• Found in Namakagon township, Bayfield County on 9/23/1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.117.01
• Meadow Fritillary (Boloria bellona)
• Species will be found in moist meadows but have adapted to hayfields and ditches. Caterpillars feed on violets, and adults nectar on many flowers, and will extract minerals from the ground. Found in Cable, Bayfield County.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.117.02
• Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes Pharos)
• This species is found in gardens, fields, roadsides and woodland edges.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.118.01
• Plum Moth
• Wings are very slender.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.118.02
• Plum Moth
• Found in Cable, Bayfield County on 7/6/2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.118.03
• Tussock Moth (Dasychira)
• Colors range from gray to brown. This speciman was found in Cable, Bayfield County.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.01
• Golden Buprestid (Dicerca lurida)
• Metallic looking wings with dark spots throughout.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.02
• Flat Head Borer (Dicerca diveracata)
• This beetle has a shiny (metallic) look. It is widest in the middle, then narrowly converging to a point.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.03
• Common Firefly (Photuris fairchildi)
• Females mimic flash patterns of females of other genera to lure males. These males are lured in and consumed.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.04
• Firefly (Photuris fairchildi)
• Looks like a common beetle during the day but puts on quite a show at night.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.05
• Harris's Diving Beetle (Dytiscus harrisii)
• Dry speciman mounted on a pin.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.06
• Predacious Diving Beetle
• These beetles are found permanently or temporarily in freshwater ponds and pools, plus streams and rivers; usually found on or among aquatic plants.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.07
• Rove Beetle (Carphisis)
• This group is known as the largest family of beetles. This specimen was found in Northwoods Beach, Sawyer County on 5/3/2000.... View Full Record
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• 2000.119.08
• Rove Beetle (Carphisis)
• This group is currently recognized as the largest family of beetles. It is an ancient group, with fossil rove beetles known from the Triassic, 200 million years ago. This specimen was found in Sawyer County on 5/3/2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2000.119.09
• Rove Beetle (Carphiisis)
• This group is known as the largest family of beetles. This specimen was found in Cable, Bayfield County on 4/22/2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.46
• Carrion Beetle (Necrophila americana)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County in June 1996. Distinctive: large, with mostly yellow pronotum.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.102
• Chafer (Callistethus sp.)
• Dry mount found in Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1996.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.103
• Click Beetle
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in May 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.104
• Leaf Beetle (Plagiodera versicolora)
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999. ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.105
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.106
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempuctata)
• Dry mount found in Stone Lake, Sawyer County, Wisconsin in September 1999. Adults comparatively large with a white or pale spot on either side of the head.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.107
• Ladybug (Coccinella septempuctata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.108.01
• Golden Buprestid (Dicerca lurida)
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1999. Metallic colored wings with black dots.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.108.02
• Metallic Wood–boring Beetle (Dicerca divercata)
• Dry mount in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.108.03
• Golden Buprestid (Dicerca lurida)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Metallic collored wings with darker dots.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.108.04
• Metallic wood–boring Beetle (Dicerca divercata)
• Dry mount found Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.108.05
• Golden Buprestid (Dicerca lurida)
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Metallic colored wings with black dots.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.01
• Long–Horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999. Not identified beyond Family Name.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.02
• Red and Black Long–horned Beetle (Trigonarthris atrata)
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.03
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.04
• Long–Horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in June 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.05
• Long–Horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.06
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 1999. Wings are sticking out in back.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.07
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.08
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.09
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Namakagon, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.10
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.11
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Drummond, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.12
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in August 2000.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.13
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.14
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.15
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2007.109.16
• Long–horned Beetle
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in July 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• 2012.12.05
• Blow Fly (Phaenicia saricata)
• Dry mount found in Cable, Bayfield County, Wisconsin in September 1999.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.188
• Bald–Faced Hornet nest (Solichovespula maculata)
• Colonies contain 400-700 workers the largest colony size in its genus. They build the characteristic hanging paper nest. and aggressively defend it.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.189
• Bald–faced hornet nest (Solichovespula maculata)
• Colonies contain 400-700 workers building the characteristic paper nest, aggressively defending it.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.190
• Bald–faced hornets nest (Solichovespula maculata)
• Colonies contain 400-700 workers building the characteristic paper nest, aggressively defending it.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.191
• Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
• It is North Americas largest native moth. It is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.193
• Dragonflies (Odonata)
• 5 dragonfly mounted in glass... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.01
• Carolina Copris
• Beetles collected by Steven Barney, all specemins collected in Lousiana- created for Natures Superheros exhibit by Katie Connoly, Naturalist / curator, CNHM.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.02
• Horned Scarab Beetle
• Also known as Hurcules beetles, unicorn beetles or horn beetles.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.03
• Humpback Dung Beetle (Deltochilum gibbosum)
• common in the southern U.S. Roll dung and hairballs. Also attracted to rotting fruit.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.04
• Florida Dung Beetle
• ung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dungs or feces.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.05
• Rainbow Scarab Beetle
• Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on dung or feces.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.195.06
• Tumble Bug Dung Beetle (Canthon chalcites)
• These beetles feed partly or exclusively on dung or feces.... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.196
• Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
•  ... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.203
• Bald–faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
• Nests are built above ground in trees, bushes, and other protected places. Baldfaced Hornets make large oval nests (when mature) above ground with the entrance low down on the side... View Full Record
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• Insect
• FIC2015.204
• Cecropia Silk Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
• The Cecropia silk moth overwinters as a pupa in spindle-shaped silken cocoon attached lengthwise to tree branch. Populations of this species can be found across most of continental North America east of the Rocky Mountains.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.30
• Mayfly
• The mayfly or shadfly is an aquatic insect belonging to the order Ephemeroptera. It is in an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains the dragonfly and damselfly.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.31
• Mayfly
• The mayfly or shadfly is an aquatic insect belonging to the order Ephemeroptera. It is in an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains the dragonfly and damselfly.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.32
• Mayfly
• The mayfly or shadfly is an aquatic insect belonging to the order Ephemeroptera. It is in an ancient group of insects termed the Palaeoptera, which also contains the dragonfly and damselfly.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.33
• Damselfly
• The general body plan of a damselfly is similar to that of a dragonfly. The compound eyes are large but are more widely separated and relatively smaller than those of a dragonfly. Above the eyes is the frons or forehead, below this the clypeus, and o... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.34
• Damsel fly
• The general body plan of a damselfly is similar to that of a dragonfly. The compound eyes are large but are more widely separated and relatively smaller than those of a dragonfly. Above the eyes is the frons or forehead, below this the clypeus, and o... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.35
• Dragonfly/Damselfly Nymph (Odonata)
• The nymphs of damselflies have been less researched than their dragonfly counterparts, and many have not even been identified. They choose their prey according to size and seem less able to overpower larger prey than can dragonfly nymphs. The major p... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.36
• Dragon Fly
• Adult dragonflies are characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, sometimes with coloured patches, and an elongated body.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.37
• Stone Fly
•  ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.38
• True Bugs
• True bugs are an order of insects comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers and shield bugs.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.39
• True Bugs
• Notonectidae is a cosmopolitan family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly called Backswimmers because they swim upside down.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.40
• Water Scorpion
• Waterscorpions have a superficial resemblance to scorpions, which is due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.41
• Water Scorpion
• They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.42
• Water Scorpions
• They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions,.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.43
• Water Scorpion
• They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.44
• Water Striders
• Water striders are able to walk on top of water due to a combination of several factors. Water striders use the high surface tension of water and long, hydrophobic legs to help them stay above water.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.45
• Creeping Water Bugs
• Naucoridae is a small family of insects commonly known as the creeping water bugs. They are very similar in appearance and behavior to the giant water bugs, and also occur in ponds and other still waters.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.46a
• Fish Flies
• Fishflies are part of the Alderfly and Dobsonfly group of winged insects. They are generally noticed for their large size, color and seemingly uncoordinated flight approach.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.46b
• Fishfly
• Fishflies are part of the Alderfly and Dobsonfly group of winged insects. They are generally noticed for their large size, color and seemingly uncoordinated flight approach.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.47
• Dobsonflies/fishflies (Corydalidae)
• Dobsonflies are a subfamily of insects, Corydalinae, part of the Megalopteran family Corydalidae. The larvae are aquatic, living in streams, and the adults are often found along streams as well.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.48
• Net–spinning Caddisfly
• The Hydropsychidae are a family-level taxon consisting of net-spinning caddisflies. Hydropsychids are common among much of the world's streams, and a few species occupy the shorelines of freshwater lakes. Larvae of the hydropsychids construct nets at... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.49
• Net–spinning Caddisfly
• The spiral "snail shell" shape of the larval case is diagnostic as is the strongly curved "J" shape of the larva. Adults are brownish or mottled, similar to adults of some other families of small caddisflies... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.50
• Snail–case caddisfly
• The spiral "snail shell" shape of the larval case is diagnostic as is the strongly curved "J" shape of the larva. Adults are brownish or mottled, similar to adults of some other families of small caddisflies... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.51
• Humpless Case Maker Caddisfly (Brachyocentridae)
• The Humpless Case Maker Caddis is so named for one simple reason: it has no humps. All other case makers have fleshy humps or bumps on the first abdominal segment; two on each side (lateral humps) and one on the back.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.52
• Caddisfly
• The caddisflies are an order, Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.53
• Caddisfly
• The caddisflies are an order, Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.54
• Finger–net Caddisfly
• Adult: many are uniformly dark brown to black; 5th segment of maxillary palp 2-3 times as long as the 4th; females of the eastern Dolophilodes distinctus are wingless.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.55
• Purse–case Microcaddisfly (Hydroptilidae)
• The micro caddisflies can be recognized by their small size and well developed, sclerotized plates on all three thoracic segments.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.56
• Whirligig Beetles
• The whirligig beetles are a family of water beetles that usually swim on the surface of the water if undisturbed, though they swim actively underwater when threatened.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.57
• Water Penny Beetle
• Water-penny beetles are a family of aquatic beetles. The young, which live in water, resemble pennies. The larvae feed off of algae, larvae, and feces.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.58
• Water Penny Beetle
• Water-penny beetles are a family of aquatic beetles. The young, which live in water, resemble pennies. The larvae feed off of algae, larvae, and feces.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.59
• Riffle Beetle
• Riffle beetles commonly live in and along streams and their presence is a positive factor in determining the health of a waterway. The small beetles are less than 1/3 inch long when fully mature and can often be noticed walking slowly along rocks und... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.60
• Water Scavenger Beetle
• Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles. Aquatic hydrophilids are notable for their long maxillary palpi, which are longer than their antennae.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.61
• Crane Fly
• Tipulidae are large to medium-sized flies (7–35 mm) with elongated legs, wings, and abdomen. Their colour is yellow, brown or grey. Ocelli are absent. The rostrum (a snout) is short to very short with a beak-like point called the nasus (rarely absent... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.62
• Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies which compose the family Culicidae. Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.63
• Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies which compose the family Culicidae. Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.64
• Non–biting Midge (Chironomidae)
• Chironomidae do not feed as adults, but an increasing body of evidence contradicts this view. Adults of many species do in fact feed. The natural foods reported include fresh fly dropping, nectar, pollen and honeydew, and various sugar-rich materials... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.65
• Non–biting Midge (Chironomidae)
• Chironomidae do not feed as adults, but an increasing body of evidence contradicts this view. Adults of many species do in fact feed. The natural foods reported include fresh fly dropping, nectar, pollen and honeydew, and various sugar-rich materials... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.67
• Water Snipe Flies
• Adults are distinguished from Chrysopilus by the presence of two spurs on the hind tibia instead of one.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.19.72
• Caddisfly
• The caddisflies are an order, Trichoptera, of insects with approximately 12,000 described species. Also called sedge-flies or rail-flies, they are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.02
• Springtails
• Baetidae is a family of mayflies with about 900 described species distributed worldwide. These are among the smallest of mayflies, adults rarely exceeding 10 mm in length excluding the two long slender tails and sometimes much smaller, and members of... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.03
• Small Square Gilled Mayflies
• Caenidae, or the Small Squaregill Mayflies, is a family of insects consisting of 4 genera comprising 26 individual species. They are found throughout North America in lotic, depostional environments, and they are sprawlers.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.04
• Spiny Crawler Mayflies
• they are found in all sizes of flowing streams on different types of substrates where there is reduced flow. They are even found on the shores of lakes and beaches where there wave action present. They move by swimming and clinging, they are very wel... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.05
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Size large; M and Cu veins in front wings strongly divergent; larvae have long cylidrical bodies, tapered at both ends, sharp mandibles that curve outward like tusks, long fringed antenna, three cauda (anal filaments); legs adapted for digging... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.06
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Size large; M and Cu veins in front wings strongly divergent; larvae have long cylidrical bodies, tapered at both ends, sharp mandibles that curve outward like tusks, long fringed antenna, three cauda (anal filaments); legs adapted for digging... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.07
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Size large; M and Cu veins in front wings strongly divergent; larvae have long cylidrical bodies, tapered at both ends, sharp mandibles that curve outward like tusks, long fringed antenna, three cauda (anal filaments); legs adapted for digging... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.08
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Size large; M and Cu veins in front wings strongly divergent; larvae have long cylidrical bodies, tapered at both ends, sharp mandibles that curve outward like tusks, long fringed antenna, three cauda (anal filaments); legs adapted for digging... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.09
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Size large; M and Cu veins in front wings strongly divergent; larvae have long cylidrical bodies, tapered at both ends, sharp mandibles that curve outward like tusks, long fringed antenna, three cauda (anal filaments); legs adapted for digging... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.10
• Common Burrower Mayflies
• Potamanthus is a genera of Mayflies with 13 species. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.11
• Prong Gilled Mayflies
• Leptophlebiid larvae live in freshwater streams and lakes eating detritus and/or algae. North American species generally cling to rocks, few physiologically equipped for skilled swimming. Like all Ephemeropteran larave, fragile gills line the lateral... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.13
• Cleft–footed Minnow Mayflies
• The mayflies of this family are large and elegant as adults and among the fastest-swimming of all mayfly species as nymphs. Sadly only one species (Siphloplecton basale) has been reported to produce fishable hatches, and even those are exceedingly ra... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.14
• Flatheaded Mayflies
• These are generally rather small mayflies with three long tails. The wings are usually clear with prominent venation although species with variegated wings are known. As in most mayflies, the males have large compound eyes, but not divided into upper... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.15
• Flatheaded Mayflies
• These are generally rather small mayflies with three long tails. The wings are usually clear with prominent venation although species with variegated wings are known. As in most mayflies, the males have large compound eyes, but not divided into upper... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.16
• Armored Mayflies
• Their primary claim to fame is their peculiar shape, both as nymphs and as adults.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.17
• Brushleg Mayflies
• Isonychia duns molt into spinners within a couple days of hatching, and when they return they provide much more concentrated action than the emergence. They mate in swarms twenty to thirty feet in the air, and the females drop their eggs from high ab... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.18
• Broad Winged Damselfly Nymph
• Adult dragonflies and damselflies mate and catch their insect prey in mid flight. Odonata groups include dragonflies, darners, skimmers, narrow-winged damselflies and broad-winged damselflies.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.20
• Broad Winged Damselfly Nymph
• Adult dragonflies and damselflies mate and catch their insect prey in mid flight. Odonata groups include dragonflies, darners, skimmers, narrow-winged damselflies and broad-winged damselflies.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.21
• Narrow–Winged Damselfly Nymph
• This family is referred to as the narrow-winged damselflies or the pond damselflies.[1] The Coenagrionidae enjoy a worldwide distribution, and are among the most common of damselfly families. This family has the smallest of damselfly species. More th... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.22
• Spreadwinged Damselfly Nymph
• The Lestidae are a rather small family of cosmopolitan, large-sized, slender damselflies. They are of the order of the dragonflies (Odonata) and are commonly known as spreadwings. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.23
• Spiketail Dragonfly Nymph
• Common name refers to the female's long ovipositor. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.24
• Clubtail Dragonfly Nymphs
• The Gomphidae are a family in the Odonata commonly referred to as clubtail dragonflies; the family contains about 90 genera and 900 species. The name refers to the club-like widening of the end of the abdomen (abdominal segments 7 through 9). However... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.25
• Darners Nymph
• The insect family Aeshnidae comprises the hawkers. They are the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe and are among the largest dragonflies on the planet. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.26
• Darners Nymph
• The insect family Aeshnidae comprises the hawkers. They are the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe and are among the largest dragonflies on the planet. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.27
• Darners Nymph
• The insect family Aeshnidae comprises the hawkers. They are the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe and are among the largest dragonflies on the planet. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.28
• Darners Dragonfly
• The insect family Aeshnidae comprises the hawkers. They are the largest dragonflies found in North America and Europe and are among the largest dragonflies on the planet. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.30
• Emerald Dragonfly Nymphs
• The insect family Corduliidae contains the emerald dragonflies or green-eyed skimmers. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.31
• Emerald Dragonfly Nymph
• The insect family Corduliidae contains the emerald dragonflies or green-eyed skimmers. These dragonflies are usually black or dark brown with areas of metallic green or yellow, and most of them have large, emerald-green eyes. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.33
• Pgymy Grasshopper
• Pygmy locusts are less than 20 mm in length, and are recognizable by a long pronotum, that extends over the length of the abdomen, sometimes to the tip of the wings, and ends in a point ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.34
• Giant Stonefly Nymph
• Lifespans range from one to four years. The name "salmonflies" comes from their role in the diets of salmon, and they play an important role in fly fishing. Adults emerge from April to June. The giant stoneflies are very sensitive to stress. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.35
• Giant Stonefly Nymphs
• Lifespans range from one to four years. The name "salmonflies" comes from their role in the diets of salmon, and they play an important role in fly fishing. Adults emerge from April to June. The giant stoneflies are very sensitive to stress. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.36
• Giant Stonefly Nymph
• Lifespans range from one to four years. The name "salmonflies" comes from their role in the diets of salmon, and they play an important role in fly fishing. Adults emerge from April to June. The giant stoneflies are very sensitive to stress. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.37
• Winter Stonefly Nymph
• Adult: dark brown to black with or without diffuse bands on wings; some species have yellowish or reddish markings on head, thorax, and tip of abdomen; forewing with forked vein rising from basal anal cell, 3 or fewer costal cross veins, and two adja... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.38
• Rolled–winged Stonefly Nymphs
• Most of the species are less than 1 cm. The wings are slender and cylindrical, usually dark brown in color. At rest, the wings appear to be wrapping their bodies. The adults develop in early spring, swarm, mate, and lay the eggs in the water. The sle... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.39
• Small Winter Stonefly Nymph
• The Capniidae, the small winter stoneflies, are a family of insects in the stonefly order. It constitutes one of the largest stonefly families, containing some 300 species distributed throughout the holarctic. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.40
• Common Stonefly Nymph
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.41
• Common Stonefly Nymph
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.42
• Common Stonefly Nymphs
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.43
• Common Stonefly Nymphs
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.44
• Common Stonefly Nymphs
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.45
• Common Stonefly Nymph
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.46
• Common Stonefly Nymphs
• Adult: variably yellowish to brownish (but not green); anal area of forewing lacks rows of cross veins; ventral surface of thorax with remnants of branched nymphal gills, usually immediately behind bases of legs Nymph: yellowish to brown with promin... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.47
• Common Stonefly Nymphs
• Homoptera is a suborder of order Hemiptera that is considered by some taxonomists to be paraphyletic, and therefore deprecated. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.48
• Giant Water Bug
• Belostomatidae are fierce predators which stalk, capture and feed on aquatic invertebrates, snails, crustaceans, fish and amphibians. The largest species have also been found to capture and feed on baby turtles and water snakes ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.49
• Water Boatmans
• Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera that inhabit ponds and slow moving streams, where they swim near the bottom. There are about 500 known species worldwide. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.50
• Water Boatmans
• Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera that inhabit ponds and slow moving streams, where they swim near the bottom. There are about 500 known species worldwide. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.51
• Water Striders
• Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera that inhabit ponds and slow moving streams, where they swim near the bottom. There are about 500 known species worldwide. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.52
• Water Striders
• Corixidae is a family of aquatic insects in the order Hemiptera that inhabit ponds and slow moving streams, where they swim near the bottom. There are about 500 known species worldwide. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.53
• Creeping Water Bugs
• Creeping Water Bugs are broadly oval and fitted with raptorial front legs. They inhabit ponds and streams, living among dense vegetation and debris. They feed on other insects and will bite humans if handled carelessly.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.54
• Water Scorpion
• They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions, which is due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.55
• Water Scorpion
• They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions, which is due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.56
• Backswimmer
• Backswimmers swim on their backs, vigorously paddling with their long, hair-fringed hind legs and attack prey as large as tadpoles and small fish. They can inflict a painful "bite" on a human being (actually, similar to a mosquito "bite", it is a sta... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.57
• Pgymy Backswimmer
• These tiny Hemiptera are only 2–3 mm long and usually of a light brownish color overall. Their body is oval, plump, with a concave back. Their compound eyes are large and the ocelli vestigial, like in other Nepomorpha. Also characteristic for the inf... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.58
• Smaller Water Striders
• They are commonly known as riffle bugs, smaller water striders or broad-shouldered water striders because the segment immediately behind the head is wider than the rest of the abdomen, unlike in the typical water striders (Gerridae), close relatives... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.60
• Dobsonfly Larvae
• The larvae, commonly called hellgrammites, are perhaps better known than the adults due to their more readily findable nature. They are unusual in that although they are generally aquatic, taking in dissolved oxygen through abdominal lateral filament... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.61
• Dark Fishfly Larvae
• There are 2 species in the Nigronia genera; Nigronia serricornis and Nigronia fasciata. The main thing that distinguishes the two species is that Nigronia fasciata has continuous and large white areas on its wings, whereas Nigronia serricornis has wh... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.62a
• Dark Fishfly Larvaes
• There are 2 species in the Nigronia genera; Nigronia serricornis and Nigronia fasciata. The main thing that distinguishes the two species is that Nigronia fasciata has continuous and large white areas on its wings, whereas Nigronia serricornis has wh... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.62b
• Dark Fishfly
• The family Corydalidae contains the megalopterous insects known as dobsonflies and fishflies. Making up about one dozen genera, they occur primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere, both temperate and tropical, and South America.... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.63
• Snout Mouth
• Most of these small moths are inconspicuous and of no particular significance to humans. They are natively pests of beehives, but are bred indoors in enormous numbers as live food for small reptile and bird pets and similar animals. They are also us... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.64
• Owlet Mouth Caterpillar
• Several species have larvae (caterpillars) that live in the soil and are agricultural or horticultural pests. These are the "cutworms" that eat the bases of young brassicas and lettuces. They form hard, shiny pupae. Most noctuid larvae feed at night,... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.67
• Humpless Casemaker Caddisfly Nymphs
• Brachycentridae caddisflies emerge on the surface. The pupae may drift for 10 to 20 feet on the surface, but once they escape their shucks ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.68
• Bizarre Caddisfly Nymphs
• Presumably, these are there for protection; i.e. the larva can quickly hide its head when it has to. But there are other cases we find on occasion -- spiral cases made out of sand. This type of case is normally made by larvae in early instars; and... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.69
• Snail–case Caddishfly Larvae
• The spiral "snail shell" shape of the larval case is diagnostic - as is the strongly curved "J" shape of the larva. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.70
• Snail–case Caddishfly Larvae
• Larva: many species have distinctive pattern on top of head; dorsal plate on each thoracic segment; rows of bushy gills on abdomen ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.71
• Snail–case Caddishfly Larvae
• Larva: many species have distinctive pattern on top of head; dorsal plate on each thoracic segment; rows of bushy gills on abdomen ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.72
• Snail–case Caddishfly Larvae
• Larva: many species have distinctive pattern on top of head; dorsal plate on each thoracic segment; rows of bushy gills on abdomen ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.73
• Micro Caddishfly Larvae
• Hydroptilidae larvae don't build cases until their fifth last instar, although they do speed through the first four instars in the first two weeks of their lives. In the fifth instar, their abdomens grow proportionally huge and they build flat cases... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.74
• Longhorned Caddisfly Larvae
• The main identifying feature of most Leptoceridae is that their antennae are longer than those of other caddisflies. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.75
• Northern Caddisfly Larvae
• Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. F... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.76
• Northern Caddisfly Larvae
• Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. F... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.77
• Northern Caddisfly Larvae
• Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. F... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.78
• Northern Caddisfly Larvae
• Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. F... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.79
• Northern Caddisfly Larvae
• Larvae tend to be eruciform (with a thickset head and thorax), rather slow-moving, and usually feed by browsing algae or scavenging animal remains. They pupate within the larval case, the pupa swimming to the surface before flying away as an adult. F... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.80
• Hood Casemaker Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools).[2] The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twi... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.81
• Hood Casemaker Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools).[2] The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twi... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.82
• Giant Casemaker Caddisfly Larvae
• Larval cases typically long, spiral-shaped or ring-shaped, constructed from grass stems, sometimes with small pebbles. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.83
• Giant Casemaker Caddisfly Larvae
• Larval cases typically long, spiral-shaped or ring-shaped, constructed from grass stems, sometimes with small pebbles. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.84
• Fingernet Caddisfly Larvae
• Larva: head dark orange; body and legs medium orange (preserved specimens fade to pale yellow or white); labrum T-shaped; dorsal anterior margin of head has asymmetrical notch. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.85
• Tube Maker Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.86
• Tube Maker Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.87
• Free–living Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.88
• Free–living Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.89
• Little Black Caddisfly Larvae
• Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species use silk to make protective cases of gravel, sand, twigs... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.90
• Leaf Beetle Larvae
• Adult and larval leaf beetles feed on all sorts of plant tissue. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.91
• Predaceous Diving Beetle Larvae
• Most are dark brown, blackish or dark olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies. They have short, but sharp mandibles. Immediately upon biting they deliver digestive enzymes. The larvae are commonly known as water tigers. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.92
• Predaceous Diving Beetle Larvae
• Most are dark brown, blackish or dark olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies. They have short, but sharp mandibles. Immediately upon biting they deliver digestive enzymes. The larvae are commonly known as water tigers. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.93
• Predaceous Diving Beetles
• Most are dark brown, blackish or dark olive in color with golden highlights in some subfamilies. They have short, but sharp mandibles. Immediately upon biting they deliver digestive enzymes. The larvae are commonly known as water tigers. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.94
• Riffle Beetle Larvae
• All elmid species have aquatic larvae with five to eight instars, depending on the genus. Adults of a few species are terrestrial, but most are aquatic with plastron respiration. Most elmid species occur in well-aerated streams and rivers, but some a... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.95
• Riffle Beetles
• Riffle beetles in the family Elmidae are frequent members of the invertebrate community of running water. Over 80 species have been recorded in North America and 46 in Europe. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.97
• Crawling Water Beetle
• The Haliplidae are a family of water beetles who swim using an alternating motion of the legs. They are therefore clumsy in water, and prefer to get around by crawling. ... View Full Record
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• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.98
• Water Scavenger Beetle Larvae
• Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles. Aquatic hydrophilids are notable for their long maxillary palpi, which are longer than their antennae. ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.99
• Water Scavenger Beetle Larvae
• Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles. Aquatic hydrophilids are notable for their long maxillary palpi, which are longer than their antennae. ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.100
• Water Scavenger Beetle
• Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles. Aquatic hydrophilids are notable for their long maxillary palpi, which are longer than their antennae. ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.101
• Water Scavenger Beetle
• Hydrophilidae, also called water scavenger beetles, is a family of chiefly aquatic beetles. Aquatic hydrophilids are notable for their long maxillary palpi, which are longer than their antennae. ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.102
• Midge Larvae (Chironomidae)
• The larvae of some Chironomidae contain haemoglobin and are sometimes referred to as bloodworms. ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.106
• Mosquito
• Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies which compose the family Culicidae. Females of most species are ectoparasites, whose tube-like mouthparts pierce the hosts' skin to consume blood. The word "mosquito" is Spanish for "little fly".... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.108
• Meniscus Midges Larvae
• The Dixidae, are a family of aquatic nematoceran Diptera. The larvae live in unpolluted, standing fresh waters, just beneath the surface film, usually amongst marginal aquatic vegetation . They are found in all continents except Antarctica.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.110
• Horse Fly Larvae
• Horse-flies are biting and bloodsucking members of the family Tabanidae. They are true flies in the insect order Diptera that have only one pair of membranous wings. Horse-flies are often large but agile in flight.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.111
• Crane Fly
• Crane flies are found worldwide, though individual species usually have limited ranges. They are most diverse in the tropics, and are also common in northern latitudes and high elevations.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.114
• Crane Fly
• Crane flies are found worldwide, though individual species usually have limited ranges. They are most diverse in the tropics, and are also common in northern latitudes and high elevations.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.116
• Black Fly
• A black fly is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. They are related to the Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and Thaumaleidae. Over 1,800 species of black flies are known.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.118
• Soldier Fly Larvae
• Black soldier fly larvae, also known as "phoenix worms", may be used in manure management, for house fly control and for the bioconversion of organic waste material. Mature larvae and prepupae raised in manure management and waste bioconversion opera... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.119
• Watersnipe Fly Larvae
• The adults mostly feed on nectar but some species feed on mammal blood.[1] Hematophagy has been demonstrated in adult Suragina and Suraginella and is suspected in other genera. The larvae have distinctive morphology; they have long abdominal prolegs... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2015.20.120
• Watersnipe Fly Larvae
• The adults mostly feed on nectar but some species feed on mammal blood.[1] Hematophagy has been demonstrated in adult Suragina and Suraginella and is suspected in other genera. The larvae have distinctive morphology; they have long abdominal prolegs... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.163
• Darner Dragonfly casing
• This is the casing that the dragonfly larva occupy.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.164
• Antlion Larvae (Genus Myrmeleon)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.01
• Darner Dragonfly Larva (Family Aeshnidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.02
• Darner Dragonfly Larva (Family Aeshnidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.03
• Clubtail Dragonfly Larva (Family Gomphidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.04
• Common Stonefly Larva (Family Perlidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.05
• Water Scorpion (Genus Ranatra)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.06
• Giant Water Bug (Family Belostomatidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.07
• Flatheaded Mayfly Larva (Family Heptageniidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.08
• Dobsonfly Larva (Corydalidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.09
• Biting Midge Larva (Family Ceratopogonidae)
• Also known as no-see-ums... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.10
• Skimmer Dragonfly Larva (Family Libellulidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.13
• Lesser Diving Beetle Larva (Family Dytiscidae)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.14
• Backswimmer Adult (Notonecta irrorata)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2015.165.15
• Northern Casemaker Caddisfly Larva (Order Trichoptera)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Entomology, Preserved
• 1995.02.131
• Long–horned Beetle (Family Cerambycidae)
• Resin block with some type of long-horned beetle. Part of each horn breaks the surface of resin.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.02
• Beetles
• Box with clear cover of 36 different beetles collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.03
•  
• Box with clear cover with 13 different moths collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.04
• Moths
• Box with clear cover that contains 2 species of moths, their cocoons and eggs. Collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.05
• Cicadas
• Box with clear cover containing stages of cicade. A cicada killer wasp is mounted below. All collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.06
• Grasshopper, Moth, Butterfly
• Box with clear cover containing 3 different types of flying insects - grasshopper, butterfly and moth. Collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.07
• Moths
• Box with clear cover containing 5 different species of moths collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.08
• Cecropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
• Moth is mounted in a clear covered box with wings spread. Collected by Lois Nestel.... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.10
• Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
• 8 varieties of butterflies framed in glass... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.11
• Cercropia Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)
• male and female Cercropia Moths preserved behind glass... View Full Record
• 
• Lois Nestel Collection
• 2015.07.01
• Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris rapae)
• Frame with stages of the life of the Cabbage White. From eggs to adult. Collected during Lois Nestel's tenure prior to 1989... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.007
• Megaloptera
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.006
• Mayfly
• Adult preserved in hand sanitizer in vial.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.005
• Dobsonfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.003
• Ephemeroptera
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.001
• Dragonfly larvae
• Dragonfly larvae preserved in fluid.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.008
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.009
• Water Strider
• Adult preserved in fluid, in vial.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.010
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.011
• Dobsonfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.012
• Giant Waterbug
• Adult preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.013
• Common Skimmer
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.014
• Net–spinning caddisfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer, in vial.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.015
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.016
• Dragonfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.017
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.018
• Dobsonfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.019
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitzer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.020
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.021
• Mayfly
• Adult preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.022
• Neocurtilla hexadactyla
• Adult preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.023
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.024
• Net–spinning caddysfly
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.025
• Trichoptera
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer, in vial... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.026
• Mayfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.027
• Net–spinning caddisfly
  Hydrosychidae
• Larvae preserved in hand sanitizer... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.028
• Dragaonfly larvae
• Larvae preserved in fluid... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• FIC2017.01.029
• Water scavenger beetle
• Adult preserved in 80% EtOH... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2017.37.01
•  
• Black Clubtail nymph preserved in 80% EtOH.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.01
•  
• Pinned insect.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.02
•  
• Pinned insect. Some wing scales rubbed off on right wing.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.03
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.04
•  
• Pinned insect. Wings slightly curled at tips.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.05
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.06
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.07
•  
• Pinned insect. Left front wing slightly bent.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.08
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.09
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.10
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.11
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.12
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.13
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.14
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.15
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.16
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.17
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.18
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.19
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.20
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.21
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.22
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.23
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.24
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.25
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.26
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.27
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.28
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.29
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.30
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.31
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.32
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.33
•  
• Pinned insect. One antennae missing.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.34
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.35
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.36
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.37
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.38
•  
• Pinned insect... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.39
•  
• Pinned insect. Front right wing loose. Some flakes off hind wings.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.40
•  
• Pinned insect.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.41
•  
• Pinned insect.... View Full Record
• 
• Wet (Fluid)
• 2017.40.42
•  
• Preserved in 85% EtOH... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.40.43
•  
• Pinned insect.... View Full Record
• 
• Entomology, Preserved
• 2017.49.01T
• Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia)
• Spider cast in resin. Spider was dried out before casting, lost color in process.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.48.01
• Giant Eastern Crane Fly (Pedicia albivitta)
• Pinned. Right leg super glued on.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.01
• Looper (F: Noctuidae)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.02
• Spoted Phosphila (Phosphila miselioides)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.03
• Tufted Thyatirid (Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.04
• Western Bean Cutworm (Striacasta albicosta)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.05
• Northen Apple Sphinx (Sphinx poecila)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.06
• Banded Tussock (Halysidota tessellaris)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.07
• Eastern Panthea (Panthea furcilla)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.08
• Fingered Dagger (Acronicta dactylina)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.09
• Gray Hooded Owlet (Cucullia florea)
• Pinned. Missing right front leg.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.10
• Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba)
• Pinned.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.11
• Sigmoid Prominent (Clostera albosigma)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.12
• Horse Fly (F: Tabanidae)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.13
• Chocolate Prominent (Peridea ferruginea)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.14
• Vigin Tiger Moth (Grammia virgo)
• Pinned. Right forewing with small tear.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.45.15
• Virgin Tiger Moth (Grammia virgo)
• Pinned. Left hind wing torn and missing scales. Right hind wing torn.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.01
• Bold–feathered Grass Moth (Herpetogramma perxtalis)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.04
• Modest Furcula (Furcula modesta)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.02
• Horned Spanworm (Nematocampa resistaria)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.03
• Black–banded Carpet (Eustroma semiatrata)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.05
• Straight–lined Plagodis (Plagodis phlogosaria)
•  ... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.06
• Fingered Dagger (Acronicta dactylina)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.07
• The Saw–wing (Euchlaena serrata)
• Pinned. Damaged front right wing.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.08
• Fish Fly (F: Corydalidae)
• Pinned. Right antenna chipped.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.09
• Black–blotched Schizura (Schizura leptinoides)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.10
• Northern Pine Sphinx (Lapara bombycoides)
• Pinned. Right antenna gone.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.11
• Brown Angle Shade (Phlogophora periculosa)
• Pinned. Left antenna broken off.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.12
• Blinded Sphinx (Paonias excaecata)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.46.13
• Ilia Underwing (Catocala ilia)
• Pinned. Left antenna broken off.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.01
• Brown–belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.02
• American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
• Pinned.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.03
• Robber Fly (Laphria posticata)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.04
• Two–spotted Bumble Bee (Bombus bimaculatus)
• Pinned. Left antenna broken off half way.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.05
• Perplexing Bumble Bee (Bombus perplexus)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.06
• Perplexing Bumble Bee (Bombus perplexus)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.07
• Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
  Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.08
• Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
• Pinned... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.10
• Monach (Danaus plexippus)
• Richer mount. Lower specimen in display.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.47.11
• Monarch (Danaus plexippus)
• Richer mount. Top specimen in display... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.52.01
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Pinned with wings spread.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.52.02
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Pinned with wings spread.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.52.03
• Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
• Pinned with wings spread.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.52.04
• Rusty Patched Bumblebee (Bombus affinis)
• Pinned.... View Full Record
• 
• Insect
• 2017.52.05
• Bee (F: Apidae)
• Pinned.... View Full Record
• 
• Geology
• FIC2017.03.01
•  
• Fossilized insect (bee) in rock, mounted on black plastic.... View Full Record
• 
• Geology
• FIC2017.03.02
•  
• Fossilized insect (damselfly) in rock, mounted on black plastic.... View Full Record

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