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Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

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

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


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Any topics consistent with the mission, shown at the top of every page, of this website.
7108339155 Oct 2024 - 10:39pm
by John van der Linden
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.)
970296029 Sep 2024 - 8:55pm
by Ken Wolgemuth
Discussion of specimens which may be misidentified in the guide.
660191029 Aug 2024 - 3:48pm
by john and jane balaban
If you need an additional guide page created for a certain taxon, ask the editors for it here.
221757094 Oct 2024 - 3:15pm
by Ken Wolgemuth
Check status, report problems, or suggest improvements.
1437914017 Sep 2024 - 8:54am
by Ken Wolgemuth
Create and edit articles here for subsequent publishing to the 'Articles' section of this website.
19427772 Oct 2024 - 9:55pm
by Jonathan Hoskins
For discussion about which classifications we should follow within the guide.
58131776 Oct 2024 - 9:46am
by stuart longhorn
Photography drives this web site. Discuss equipment and techniques here.
410285012 Sep 2024 - 12:19pm
by Peter W. Messer
Anything related to nearctic spiders.
455179117 Sep 2024 - 12:04pm
by S. Edwards
For discussion of the more humble kind of Lepidoptera.
386137824 Sep 2024 - 7:03pm
by Kevin Keegan
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).
4639419 Feb 2024 - 6:27pm
by Tobias Hays
Sometimes you need to rear to identify. Discover and document life cycles!
10648420 Sep 2024 - 11:02am
by dvoribird
Report spam here for our illustrious team of spam-zappers.
5992023 Aug 2024 - 10:02am
by Ron M.
Announcements for and discussion among BugGuide's contributing editors.
259181525 Aug 2024 - 6:16pm
by Cotinis
Remembering those who have put time and effort into the Guide.
512024 Jun 2024 - 3:03pm
by David Moll