Insects and Bugs

Insects and other bugs may seem boring but it can be very interesting to learn about them, how they are placed in families, and genera and what sort of habitat you can expect to find them in. If you are stuck and don't know where to look you can check the Easy I.D. page or e-mail me.

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Insects and bugs in alphabetical order:

Beetles	Bees,Wasps, Ants & Sawflies	Butterflies & Moths	Centipedes
Order Coleoptera	Order Hymenoptera	Order Lepidoptera	Class Chilopoda
Lebia viridis , a Colourful Foliage Ground Beetle in the family Carabidae	A Bombus sp. on a Canada Thistle.	Western tailed-blue , a Gossamer-winged Butterfly

Cockroaches	Damselflies & Dragonflies	Earwigs
Order Blattaria	Order Odanata	Order Dermaptera
A Tawny Cockroach from Britain. This species has been introduced into Alberta.	An unidentified Spreadwing Damselfly	An Earwig in a defensive pose from Britain. A specimen in Alberta has not yet been photographed.

Flies	Grasshoppers & Crickets	Millipedes	Mites & Ticks
Order Diptera	Order Orthoptera	Class Diploda	Subclass Aclaria
Erioptera cana , a small Cranefly			A red mite from Britain.

Net-winged Flies/ Lacewings & allies	Scorpions	Spiders	Silverfish
Order Neuroptera	Order Scorpiones	Order Araneae	Order Zygentoma
Chrysopa chi, a species of Green lacewing in the family Chrysopidae		An unidentified spider.	An Outside Silverfish from Britain.

Symphylans	True Bugs	Isopods (Woodlice/ Sowbugs and Sea slaters)
Class Symphyla	Order Hemiptera	Order Isopoda
From Britain. No Alberta specimen photographed yet.		A woodlouse from Britain. No good quality photo from Alberta yet.