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Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

National Moth Week was July 23-31, 2022! See moth submissions.

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29

Photos of insects and people from the 2015 gathering in Wisconsin, July 10-12


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Any topics consistent with the mission, shown at the top of every page, of this website.
69693316812 Dec 2022 - 9:25am
by Jeff Gruber
If you have suggestions on how to improve a specific guide page, post them here for editors to review. (For general discussion of Guide Pages, use the Web Site Problems and Suggestions forum.)
900277511 Dec 2022 - 2:34am
by Jonathan Hoskins
Discussion of specimens which may be misidentified in the guide.
640186310 Dec 2022 - 10:49am
by Ken Wolgemuth
If you need an additional guide page created for a certain taxon, ask the editors for it here.
210054529 Dec 2022 - 8:37am
by Blaine Mathison
Check status, report problems, or suggest improvements.
1399900712 Dec 2022 - 11:52pm
by Bob OBrien
Create and edit articles here for subsequent publishing to the 'Articles' section of this website.
18126826 Dec 2022 - 11:19am
by Curt Harden
For discussion about which classifications we should follow within the guide.
54530249 Dec 2022 - 7:05pm
by bdagley
Photography drives this web site. Discuss equipment and techniques here.
406281515 Sep 2022 - 5:29pm
by Stephen Hart
Anything related to nearctic spiders.
443176118 Oct 2022 - 6:20pm
by SpiderLibrarian22
For discussion of the more humble kind of Lepidoptera.
364131312 Dec 2022 - 9:10pm
by John Morgan
Concerted efforts to identify and photograph all of our species for a particular group of bugs. NOT for identification requests (use ID Request for that).
4840724 Nov 2022 - 12:10am
by odlyprincess
Sometimes you need to rear to identify. Discover and document life cycles!
553033 Dec 2022 - 7:46pm
by Greeper782
Report spam here for our illustrious team of spam-zappers.
5480724 Nov 2022 - 1:24am
by Jonathan Hoskins
Announcements for and discussion among BugGuide's contributing editors.
24517525 Dec 2022 - 2:31pm
by bdagley
Remembering those who have put time and effort into the Guide.
31164 Dec 2022 - 3:51pm
by Karen Campbell