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Summary of BugGuide articles

In an effort to make articles more accessible and useful...

Instructions for Authors

BugGuide Basics:
Where Do I Post It? (Identification)
Image Processing For BugGuide
BugGuide Photography For The Beginner
A Bug Photographer's Guide to Critical Images Needed for Identification
Macro Photography Technique: Overcoming Photo Blur
Contributor's Field Guide to the Frass of North America
Measurement
Sex Differentiation in Insects: A Few Tips
Glossary
Page Creation Tips [for editors]
Complete Markup Article (a guide to HTML code for use in guide pages, etc.)

Quick ID Guides:
Most Frequently Requested IDs
Common household bugs
Potentially Dangerous Arachnids and Insects
Overview of Orders of Insects
Navigation to Moth Identification Articles [does not include the moth ID articles listed below]
Brown/Gray Moths With Striking Hind Wings
Hymenoptera-like Moths
Color Plates from The Moth Book by W.J. Holland
Spider Eye Arrangements
BLACK/DARK BROWN AND WHITE SPIDERS
Ventral images of some Araneidae
Identifying Caterpillars: A List of Useful Features
Identifying easily-identified midges (Chironomidae)
Aphids organized by host plants

Groupings of Similar-looking but Unrelated Bugs:
Lycid mimicry complex in eastern North America [dark wings, orange pronotum]
Moths That Can Be Confused
Similar Looking Spiders in Different Families

Promoting, raising, and collecting bugs:
Introduction to Gardening for Insects
Raising Caterpillars
How To Attract Moths To Your Yard
Tarantulas - About, Care, As Pets, Breeding
How to Start a Proper Insect Collection

Ecology:
List of non-native species of insects and arachnids in North America
List of non-native species of insects and arachnids in North America, Part II (holometabolous insects)
Invasive Species
Insect Overwintering Habits And Ecology
Overwintering Grasshopper Nymphs (Orthoptera; Acrididae, Tetrigidae)
Arthropod Pathogenic Fungi
Goldenrod Gall Fauna
Carnivorous Lepidoptera

Regional Guides and Resources:
Fleahoppers, Leafhoppers, Planthoppers, and Treehoppers of Oklahoma
A Pictorial Guide To The Butterflies Of Southern Illinois
Regional Resources - California

Other:
Origins of names (Entomological Etymology)
Bug Latin
Insect Anatomy: Structure & Function
Papilio cresphontes (Giant Swallowtail) vs. Papilio thoas (Thoas Swallowtail)
The Cladistics of Orbiculariae and the Monophyletic Origin of the Orb-Web
The search for Pytho strictus, the lost beetle of Mt. Washington
Hymenoptera mimicry by Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, & Araneae
Arthropod Mimicry
Setting the record straight on the Class Arachnida
The most misunderstood spiders
Roosting male bees and wasps (Hymenoptera)
Nesting habits of potter and mason wasps
Forum/Registry for Tracking New Records of North American Ground Beetles (Geadephaga)

General Discussion Forum Posts That Continue To Accumulate Information and Links:
Plants v. Animals (ICBN v. ICZN) (Plants and other organisms that share Latin names with arthropods)
Tiny Bubbles (Bubble-blowing behavior of flies and other insects)
Thrill-seeking Katydid (Insects and arachnids clinging to cars at high speeds)
Bug Guide firsts list for Latin American Bug Guide project

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 28 March, 2008 - 12:39pm
Last updated 10 February, 2016 - 8:43am

Candidate for inclusion above is the ongoing Forum/Registry

for Tracking New Records of North American Ground Beetles (Geadephaga) that is actively followed by BugGuiders here. The site continuously accumulates new state/provincial records to supplement the recent massive North American catalogue by Yves Bousquet (2012). Hopefully the site serves as a model/stimulus for other BugGuiders to engage in similar projects that accumulate post-catalogue records of their favorite insect groups.

… Peter W. Messer, 31 December, 2014 - 9:23am

Done

I just added it the the "other" section for now. I welcome suggestions for additional categories, as well as suggestions for any other articles I may have missed. I have not been actively monitoring the Articles forum for new additions.

… Charley Eiseman, 31 December, 2014 - 9:43am

bumping it

up to the top

… Beatriz Moisset, 30 December, 2014 - 2:45pm

Moving

this back to page one.

… Lynette Elliott, 30 January, 2013 - 9:20am

Make it "sticky"?

Is there any way to keep this at the top all the time? I think it's called making it sticky. I found the article on markups via this post for the first time... and I've been hanging out here for almost 4 years now!

Anyway, the moderator or some other IT person may be able to do this.

… Michael Battenberg, 10 June, 2013 - 1:26pm

A few more

Carnivorous Lepidoptera
Roosting male bees and wasps
Nesting habits of potter and mason wasps
Probably there are a couple that I missed.
Also, some of them are not "For review" anymore.

… Beatriz Moisset, 10 July, 2012 - 6:47pm

Thanks

I haven't done anything with this in a while. If anyone comes across others that should be added, please let me know; I don't feel motivated to go looking right now.
Taxon-specific articles like these three could/should also be linked in the guide pages (Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Eumeninae), if they aren't already.
I deleted all the "for review, "draft," etc. so I won't have to keep updating those.

… Charley Eiseman, 11 July, 2012 - 1:30pm

Getting lost

It is time to bring this summary to the top.

… Beatriz Moisset, 14 June, 2012 - 11:07am

Don't forget this one:

Invasive Species

… Chuck Entz, 7 September, 2010 - 10:26pm

nice

It is like an index or a article site map.

… roar, 16 January, 2010 - 8:15pm

Moving

To page 1.

… Lynette Elliott, 9 January, 2010 - 11:56am

Moving up again...

… Lynette Elliott, 1 September, 2010 - 3:03pm

Moving to page 1

again.

… Lynette Elliott, 31 December, 2010 - 11:26am

And again

...

… Chuck Entz, 30 May, 2011 - 8:29pm

And again

...

… Chuck Entz, 28 December, 2011 - 12:16pm

Well, since Chuck didn't push it up this time, I will.

… Ron Hemberger, 5 September, 2013 - 1:19pm

Lather, rinse, and above all REPEAT!

… Ron Hemberger, 20 October, 2013 - 5:24pm

Updated

I think this is all up-to-date again...

… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2009 - 4:34pm

Balabans Ventral View of Spiders?

Do you have the Ventral images of some Araneidae seen here? I use that one all the time and it's starting to get buried.

… Lynette Elliott, 17 September, 2009 - 6:36pm

Taxon-specific

I've generally been leaving off taxon-specific articles and making links to them on the appropriate guide page (as was done with Sam's leafhopper page, for instance). I just added a link to that one on the Araneidae page... feel free to move it somewhere more obvious/convenient, and let me know if you still think it would be useful to add here.

[Edit: well, I guess I have plenty of taxon-specific articles on here. I just added that one. But we should remember to also add links to taxon-specific articles on guide pages.]

… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2009 - 6:52pm

some suggestions...

Under Quick ID Guides, consider including:
Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths
Moths That Can Be Confused
Brown/Gray Moths With Striking Hind Wings

… roar, 19 July, 2009 - 9:06pm

Added

I put a link to the first one on the Saturniidae guide page instead of putting it here.

… Charley Eiseman, 30 July, 2009 - 8:03pm

moving

to the front again...

… Lynette Elliott, 19 July, 2009 - 10:29am

Let us move this to the front

Also, how about including Lynette's latest article? a very useful one.

… Beatriz Moisset, 4 April, 2009 - 6:59pm

Added

that one, along with a few others... let me know if I'm missing anything else.

… Charley Eiseman, 4 April, 2009 - 7:39pm

Updated

I think this summary is up to date now, and I'm just making this comment to move it up in the ranks a bit.

… Charley Eiseman, 8 October, 2008 - 12:02am

Here is one for you to look at

Don't know if you want it. It has to do with cropping and resizing images for BG. http://bugguide.net/node/view/170176

… John R. Maxwell, 30 March, 2008 - 5:03pm

Thanks

That definitely belongs in the "BugGuide Basics."

… Charley Eiseman, 30 March, 2008 - 7:41pm

Potential addition to Other category?

What about posting Threatened and Endangered species on BugGuide? The US Fish & Wildlife website has a list of threatened and endangered insects.

http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/StartTESS.do

This is the list of insects as of 3/29/2008:

Inverted Common Name Scientific Name

Beetle, American burying -- Nicrophorus americanus
Beetle, Coffin Cave mold-- Batrisodes texanus
Beetle, Comal Springs dryopid-- Stygoparnus comalensis
Beetle, Comal Springs riffle-- Heterelmis comalensis
Beetle, delta green ground-- Elaphrus viridis
Beetle, Helotes mold-- Batrisodes venyivi
Beetle, Hungerford's crawling water-- Brychius hungerfordi
Beetle, Kretschmarr Cave mold-- Texamaurops reddelli
Beetle, Mount Hermon June-- Polyphylla barbata
Beetle, Tooth Cave ground-- Rhadine persephone
Beetle, valley elderberry longhorn--Desmocerus californicus dimorphus
Butterfly, bay checkerspot-- Euphydryas editha bayensis
Butterfly, Behren's silverspot--Speyeria zerene behrensii
Butterfly, callippe silverspot--Speyeria callippe callippe
Butterfly, El Segundo blue-- Euphilotes battoides allyni
Butterfly, Fender's blue-- Icaricia icarioides fenderi
Butterfly, Karner blue-- Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Butterfly, Lange's metalmark-- Apodemia mormo langei
Butterfly, lotis blue-- Lycaeides argyrognomon lotis
Butterfly, mission blue-- Icaricia icarioides missionensis
Butterfly, Mitchell's satyr-- Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii
Butterfly, Myrtle's silverspot--Speyeria zerene myrtleae
Butterfly, Oregon silverspot-- Speyeria zerene hippolyta
Butterfly, Palos Verdes blue-- Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis
Butterfly, Quino checkerspot-- Euphydryas editha quino Butterfly, Saint Francis' satyr-- Neonympha mitchellii francisci
Butterfly, San Bruno elfin-- Callophrys mossii bayensis
Butterfly, Schaus swallowtail-- Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus
Butterfly, Smith's blue-- Euphilotes enoptes smithi
Butterfly, Uncompahgre fritillary-- Boloria acrocnema
Dragonfly, Hine's emerald-- Somatochlora hineana
Fly, Delhi Sands flower-loving--Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis
Grasshopper, Zayante band-winged-- Trimerotropis infantilis
Ground beetle, [unnamed]-- Rhadine exilis
Ground beetle, [unnamed]-- Rhadine infernalis
Harvestman, Bee Creek Cave-- Texella reddelli
Harvestman, Bone Cave-- Texella reyesi
Harvestman, Cokendolpher Cave-- Texella cokendolpheri
Meshweaver, Braken Bat Cave-- Cicurina venii
Meshweaver, Gov't Canyon Bat Cave-- Cicurina vespera
Meshweaver, Madla's Cave-- Cicurina madla
Meshweaver, Robber Baron Cave-- Cicurina baronia
Moth, Blackburn's sphinx-- Manduca blackburni
Moth, Kern primrose sphinx-- Euproserpinus euterpe
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila aglaia
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila differens
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila hemipeza
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila heteroneura
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila montgomeryi
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila mulli
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila musaphila
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila neoclavisetae
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila obatai
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila ochrobasis
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila substenoptera
Pomace fly, [unnamed]-- Drosophila tarphytrichia
Pseudoscorpion, Tooth Cave-- Tartarocreagris texana
Skipper, Carson wandering-- Pseudocopaeodes eunus obscurus
Skipper, Laguna Mountains-- Pyrgus ruralis lagunae
Skipper, Pawnee montane-- Hesperia leonardus montana
Spider, Gov't Canyon Bat Cave-- Neoleptoneta microps
Spider, Kauai cave wolf-- Adelocosa anops
Spider, spruce-fir moss-- Microhexura montivaga
Spider, Tooth Cave-- Leptoneta myopica
Tiger beetle, northeastern beach-- Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis
Tiger beetle, Ohlone-- Cicindela ohlone
Tiger beetle, Puritan-- Cicindela puritana
Tiger beetle, Salt Creek-- Cicindela nevadica lincolniana

… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 29 March, 2008 - 10:59am

state endangered/threatened lists

If somebody was really motivated, an article could be put together with links to all the state lists of rare species, in addition to the federally listed ones. I don't know if all states even have such a list, but certainly many of them do.
...But a page with thumbnails of all the federally listed species would be neat. I wonder how many of them are on BugGuide?

… Charley Eiseman, 29 March, 2008 - 11:09am

This is great.

Good Idea..

… Lynette Elliott, 28 March, 2008 - 4:44pm

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