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Insects & Spiders

Species List by Biome



CONIFEROUS FOREST

American cockroach

Bed bug

Book louse

Book scorpion

Brown mayfly

European earwig

German cockroach

Giant salmonfly

Giant whip scorpion

Greenhouse camel cricket

Hair follicle mite

Holijapyx diversiuguis

Honeybee

Human head/body louse

Indian mealmoth

Long-bodied cellar spider

Megarhyssa nortoni

Oriental cockroach

Rock-crawler

Rocky Mountain wood tick

Schummel's inocelliid snakefly

Silverfish

Slender pigeon louse

Wandering glider

Zebra jumping spider

CONTINENTAL MARGIN

Colossendeis megalonyx

Horseshoe crab

DECIDUOUS FOREST

Allopauropus carolinensis

American burying beetle

American cockroach

Bed bug

Big black horse fly

Book louse

Book scorpion

Brownbanded cockroach

Brown mayfly

Chigoe

Chiloporter eatoni

Chinese mantid

Common American walkingstick

Common harvestman

Devil's coach-horse

Eastern dobsonfly

Eastern subterranean termite

European earwig

European mantid

European marsh crane fly

European stag beetle

Flat-backed millipede

Garden symphylan

German cockroach

Giant whip scorpion

Greenhouse camel cricket

Gypsy moth

Hair follicle mite

Halictophagus naulti

Holijapyx diversiuguis

House centipede

Honeybee

Hubbard's angel insect

Human head/body louse

Indian mealmoth

Long-bodied cellar spider

Macleay's spectre

Mediterranean fruit fly

Megarhyssa nortoni

Moth lacewing

Oriental cockroach

Panorpa nuptialis

Pea aphid

Pill millipede

Rock-crawler

Potter wasp

Rocky Mountain wood tick

Saunders embiid

Scolopender

Seventeen-year cicada

Silkworm

Silverfish

Sinetomon yoroi

Slender pigeon louse

Spider bat fly

Spoonwing lacewing

Tarantula hawk

Triaenodes bicolor

Trissolcus basalis

Velvet ant

Wandering glider

Western flower thrips

Zebra jumping spider

DESERT

American cockroach

Antlion

Bed bug

Big black horse fly

Book louse

Brownbanded cockroach

Camel spider

European earwig

Hair follicle mite

Honeybee

House centipede

Indian mealmoth

German cockroach

Giant whip scorpion

Greenhouse camel cricket

Long-bodied cellar spider

Oriental cockroach

Sacred scarab

Scolopender

Silverfish

Slender pigeon louse

Spider bat fly

Tarantula hawk

Wandering glider

Western flower thrips

Wide-headed rottenwood termite

Zebra jumping spider

GRASSLAND

American burying beetle

American cockroach

Antlion

Backswimmer

Big black horse fly

Bed bug

Book louse

Book scorpion

Brownbanded cockroach

Common harvestman

Death's head hawk moth

Emperor scorpion

European earwig

European marsh crane fly

European mantid

Garden symphylan

German cockroach

Giant whip scorpion

Gladiator

Hair follicle mite

Honeybee

House centipede

Human head/body louse

Indian mealmoth

Indian stick insect

Large blue

Long-bodied cellar spider

Lucerne flea

Oriental cockroach

Pea aphid

Sacred scarab

St. Helena earwig

Scolopender

Sheep and goat flea

Silverfish

Slender pigeon louse

Spider bat fly

Spoonwing lacewing

Tarantula hawk

Trissolcus basalis

Tsetse fly

Variegated grasshopper

Velvet ant

Wandering glider

Western flower thrips

Wide-headed rottenwood termite

Yellow fever mosquito

Zebra jumping spider

LAKE AND POND

American cockroach

Brownbanded cockroach

German cockroach

Great water beetle

Hair follicle mite

Honeybee

Oriental cockroach

Wandering glider

OCEAN

Colossendeis megalonyx

Sea skater

RAINFOREST

American cockroach

Atlas moth

Bed bug

Balsam beast

Beetle cricket

Black macrotermes

Black-headed nasute termite

Blue morpho

Book louse

Brownbanded cockroach

Chigoe

Cubacubana spelaea

Dead-leaf mantid

Dead leaf mimetica

Emperor scorpion

European earwig

Forest giant

German cockroach

Giant water bug

Giraffe-necked weevil

Green lacewing

Greenhouse camel cricket

Greenhouse whitefly

Hair follicle mite

Hercules beetle

Hispaniola hooded katydid

Honeybee

House centipede

Human head/body louse

Indian mealmoth

Javan leaf insect

Jungle nymph

Leaf-cutter ant

Linnaeus's snapping termite

Madeira cockroach

Mantid lacewing

Mediterranean fruit fly

Orchid mantid

Oriental cockroach

Pea aphid

Saunders embiid

Scolopender

Silverfish

Slender pigeon louse

Spider bat fly

Stalk-eyed fly

Tailless whip scorpion

Tarantula hawk

Tsetse fly

Wandering glider

Wandering violin mantid

Yellow fever mosquito

RIVER AND STREAM

American cockroach

Brownbanded cockroach

Forest giant

German cockroach

Hair follicle mite

Honeybee

Oriental cockroach

Rocky Mountain wood tick

Triaenodes bicolor

Wandering glider

SEASHORE

Hair follicle mite

Honeybee

Horseshoe crab

Petrobius brevistylis

Wandering glider

TUNDRA

Book louse

Hair follicle mite

Human head/body louse

Slender pigeon louse

WETLAND

American cockroach

Big black horse fly

Brownbanded cockroach

European earwig

German cockroach

Greenhouse camel cricket

Hair follicle mite

Human head/body louse

Long-winged conehead

Oriental cockroach

Rocky Mountain wood tick

Slender pigeon louse

Wandering glider

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