Insects - Common insects

1. Common Insects - Identification
by Order

2. Order - Anoplura
• Simple
• Sucking
• Only Hog Louse
• Can attack deer, moose, elk, wild hogs

3. Hog Louse

4. Order - Blattodea
• Simple
• Chewing
• Cockroaches

5. American cockroach

6. Order - Coleoptera
• Complete
• Chewing
• Beetles, Weevils, and Rootworms

7. Alfalfa Weevil

8. Bean Leaf Beetle
Black Triangle behind
neck

9. Blister Beetle

10. Click Beetle

11. Colorado Potato Beetle

12. Elm Leaf Beetle

13. Flea Beetle

14. Green June Beetle

15. Ground Beetle

16. Ladybird Beetle

17. Lightningbug (firefly)

18. Metallic Wood-Boring Beetle

19. Mexican Bean Beetle

20. Northern Corn Rootworm

21. Soldier Beetle

22. Southern Corn Rootworm (Spotted
Cucumber Beetle)

23. Order - Diptera
• Complete
• Sucking
• Flies & Mosquitoes

24. Horse Fly

25. House Fly

26. Mosquito

27. Order - Ephemeroptera
• Simple
• Chewing
• Mayfly

28. Mayfly

29. Order - Hemiptera
• Simple
• Sucking
• Bugs

30. Assassin bug

31. Boxelder Bug

32. Brown Stink Bug

33. Damsel bug
Enlarged front legs

34. Giant Water Bug

35. Green Stink Bug

36. Squash Bug

37. Water strider

38. Order - Homoptera
• Simple
• Sucking
• Cicada, Leafhopper, Treehopper, Mealybug

39. Cicada

40. Order - Hymenoptera
• Complete
• Chewing
• Stinging Insects

41. Ant

42. Bald-faced hornet

43. Bumble Bee
Often confused with carpenter bees,
bumble bees are characterized by the
hairiness of the abdomen (carpenter bees
have a smooth abdomen).

44. Carpenter bee

45. Honey Bee

46. Mud Dauber Wasp

47. Velvet ant

48. Yellowjacket

49. Order - Isoptera
• Simple
• Chewing
• Termites

50. Termite

51. Order - Lepidoptera
• Complete
• Sucking
• Moths and Butterflies

52. Black Cutworm Moth

53. Buckeye Butterfly

54. Cabbage Butterfly

55. Codling Moth

56. Corn Earworm Moth

57. European Corn Borer Moth

58. Monarch Butterfly

59. True armyworm moth

60. Viceroy butterfly
Extra black
line

61. Order - Mantodea
• Simple
• Chewing
• Praying Mantid

62. Praying Mantid

63. Order - Neuroptera
• Complete
• Chewing
• Dobsonfly & Green Lacewig

64. Green Lacewing

65. Order - Odonata
• Simple
• Chewing
• Damselfly & Dragonfly

66. Damselfly

67. Dragonfly

68. Order - Orthoptera
• Simple
• Chewing
• Grasshoppers & Crickets

69. Differential Grasshopper (Short-
Horned)

70. Field Cricket

71. Long-horned Grasshopper

72. Mole Cricket

73. Order - Phasmatodea
• Simple
• Chewing
• Walking Stick

74. Walking stick

75. Order - Plecoptera
• Simple
• Chewing
• Stonefly

76. Stonefly

77. Order - Siphonaptera
• Complete
• Sucking
• Flea

78. Flea

79. Order - Trichoptera
• Complete
• Chewing
• Caddisfly

80. Caddisfly

81. Study Material
• http://www.mda.state.mn.us/biocon/insectorders/
• http://www.ento.okstate.edu/4H-FFA/ppt/ppt/guides.html