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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.
7115339542 Dec 2024 - 2:43pm
by Brad Balukjian
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.)
97729912 Dec 2024 - 12:27pm
by Peter W. Messer
Discussion of specimens which may be misidentified in the guide.
66719202 Dec 2024 - 11:55am
by Nick Spigler
If you need an additional guide page created for a certain taxon, ask the editors for it here.
2218571424 Nov 2024 - 5:12pm
by Edward L. Ruden
Check status, report problems, or suggest improvements.
1440914925 Nov 2024 - 8:34pm
by John Schneider
Create and edit articles here for subsequent publishing to the 'Articles' section of this website.
195278625 Nov 2024 - 6:12pm
by Curt Harden
For discussion about which classifications we should follow within the guide.
58331841 Dec 2024 - 5:38pm
by Peter W. Messer
Photography drives this web site. Discuss equipment and techniques here.
410285012 Sep 2024 - 12:19pm
by Peter W. Messer
Anything related to nearctic spiders.
456179619 Oct 2024 - 4:18pm
by Brian Dunham
For discussion of the more humble kind of Lepidoptera.
38713793 Nov 2024 - 12:45pm
by JWJanssen
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).
473962 Dec 2024 - 1:04pm
by Jeffrey A Stratford
Sometimes you need to rear to identify. Discover and document life cycles!
1084952 Dec 2024 - 9:30am
by dvoribird
Report spam here for our illustrious team of spam-zappers.
5992224 Oct 2024 - 9:18am
by Tyler Hedlund
Announcements for and discussion among BugGuide's contributing editors.
260181825 Oct 2024 - 4:54pm
by Bugologist1
Remembering those who have put time and effort into the Guide.
512128 Nov 2024 - 8:44pm
by John Schneider