This large butterfly is well known for its orange and black coloring.
What is a Monarch Butterfly?
100
This insect is about five inches in length and has a wing span of about five inches as well.
What is a Giant Darner Dragonfly?
100
This insect is known to cling on dogs.
What is an American Dog Tick?
100
This insect is known to show up in the summer and for its black and yellow color. You would probably recognize it if someone said you got stung by a...
What is an American Bumble Bee?
100
This jumper has spines on its back legs.
What is a Differential Grasshopper?
200
This species is not flashy and can be found in all three North American countries.
What is a Forage Looper Moth?
200
These are slow on foot but can fly for an hour at dusk. They can also borrow, causing problems for golf courses and football stadiums.
What is a Tawny Mole Cricket?
200
This insect appears on furniture.
What is a Bed Bug?
200
These are most common in the mid-west states. It makes a home that looks like a honeycomb but don't get it mixed up with a bee.
What is a Northern Paper Wasp?
200
This insect has a very annoying chirp that sounds up to 30 times a minute.
What is a Field Cricket?
300
This moth has fury legs, body, and antennae.
What is a Large Tolype Moth?
300
This insect got its name from the formation of its front legs when resting.
What is a Praying Mantis?
300
Along with biting this small black, brown, and red insect sprays formic acid from their abdomen.
What is a Formica Ant?
300
"Ant" is in its name but it's really a fury wasp.
What is a Red Velvet Ant?
300
This insect looks like a leaf.
What is a Katydid?
400
This moth has white spots all over its wings, and mimics a wasp but doesn't sting.
What is a Polka Dot Wasp Moth?
400
This flying insect drinks animal fluids and also may be found visiting piles of dung.
What is a Flesh Fly?
400
Only the female bites. This insect is found near the water. It can be very annoying when it's biting you.
What is a Mosquito?
400
It's color is in its name. It's sting is so painful you wouldn't want to go near it. Also it's stinger doesn't fall out even after repetitive use.
What is a Yellow Jacket?
400
This insect has a hunched back like a shrimp.
What is a Jumping Bristletail?
500
This member of the Hawkmoth family can be mistaken for a hummingbird because of its size and how fast its wings beat.
What is an Achemon Sphinx Moth?
500
You might find this insects molted exoskeleton clinging to various things.
What is a Swamp Cicada?
500
Females of this fly species bites and drinks the blood of large animals and humans.
What is a Horse Fly?
500
It's sting can paralize a tarantula.
What is a Tarantula Hawk?
500
This insect can deliver a painful bite to careless humans. It's head also has a distinctive shape.