Common Backyard Bug Identification
These are the bugs you'll actually find in your garden, on your porch, and around your home. From ladybugs to earwigs, this set covers the species most people encounter every day but can't quite name.
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All 100 species in this set
- American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
- American Pelecinid Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator)
- American Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis)
- American Yellowjacket (Vespula alascensis)
- Apache Paper Wasp (Polistes apachus)
- Argentine Ant (Linepithema humile)
- Arizona Fungus-farming Ant (Trachymyrmex arizonensis)
- Ashy Mining Bee (Andrena cineraria)
- Bald-faced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata)
- Bicolored Arboreal Carpenter Ant (Camponotus discolor)
- Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens)
- Black-and-gold Bumble Bee (Bombus auricomus)
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus melanopygus)
- Blood-spotted Sugar Ant (Camponotus cruentatus)
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus griseocollis)
- Buren's Pyramid Ant (Dorymyrmex bureni)
- Cherry Gall Wasp (Cynips quercusfolii)
- Chestnut Carpenter Ant (Camponotus castaneus)
- Chicatana Leafcutter Ant (Atta mexicana)
- Common Carder Bumble Bee (Bombus pascuorum)
- Common Citronella Ant (Lasius claviger)
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)
- Common European Thief Ant (Solenopsis fugax)
- Common Masked Bee (Hylaeus communis)
- Common Pantaloon Bee (Dasypoda hirtipes)
- Common Spangle Gall Wasp (Neuroterus quercusbaccarum)
- Cordate-headed Resin-Leafcutter (Trachusa cordaticeps)
- Downy Yellowjacket (Vespula flavopilosa)
- Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
- Eastern Black Carpenter Ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus)
- Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)
- Elegant Grass-carrying Wasp (Isodontia elegans)
- Elm Zigzag Sawfly (Aproceros leucopoda)
- Ethiop Carpenter Ant (Camponotus aethiops)
- Eurasian Winter Ant (Prenolepis nitens)
- European fire ant (Myrmica rubra)
- European Hornet (Vespa crabro)
- European Orchard Bee (Osmia cornuta)
- Four-Spotted Odorous Ant (Dolichoderus quadripunctatus)
- Fraternal Potter Wasp (Eumenes fraternus)
- Frigid Mining Bee (Andrena frigida)
- Ghost Ant (Tapinoma melanocephalum)
- Graceful Twig Ant (Pseudomyrmex gracilis)
- Guinea Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans)
- Hairy Carpenter Ant (Camponotus vagus)
- hairy poplar sawfly (Cladius grandis)
- Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes)
- Half-black Bumble Bee (Bombus vagans)
- Hercules Carpenter Ant (Camponotus herculeanus)
- Hunter's Little Paper Wasp (Polistes dorsalis)
- Immigrant Pavement Ant (Tetramorium immigrans)
- Jet Ant (Lasius fuliginosus)
- Large Velvet Ant (Mutilla europaea)
- Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus citrinus)
- Louisiana Painted-Dark bee (Stelis louisae)
- Mediterranean Acrobat Ant (Crematogaster scutellaris)
- Mesoamerican Bumble Bee (Bombus ephippiatus)
- Mossy Rose Gall Wasp (Diplolepis rosae)
- Nevada Bumble Bee (Bombus nevadensis)
- Northern Amber Bumble Bee (Bombus borealis)
- Orange-legged Furrow Bee (Halictus rubicundus)
- Oriental Hornet (Vespa orientalis)
- Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
- Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta)
- Red Mason Bee (Osmia bicornis)
- Red-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus rufocinctus)
- Rocky Mountain Aerial Yellowjacket (Dolichovespula alpicola)
- Rough Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex rugosus)
- Sanderson's Bumble Bee (Bombus sandersoni)
- Scabious Sawfly (Abia nitens)
- Sculptured Resin Bee (Megachile sculpturalis)
- Shaded Fuzzy Ant (Lasius aphidicola)
- Shining Guest Ant (Formicoxenus nitidulus)
- Short-haired Bumble Bee (Bombus subterraneus)
- Silk-Button Spangle Gall Wasp (Neuroterus numismalis)
- Southern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa micans)
- Southern Plains Bumble Bee (Bombus fraternus)
- Southern Yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)
- Striped Pea Gall Wasp (Cynips longiventris)
- Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva)
- Toothed Tiger Ichneumon (Amblyteles armatorius)
- Tree Bumble Bee (Bombus hypnorum)
- Tricolored Bumble Bee (Bombus ternarius)
- Turnip Sawfly (Athalia rosae)
- Two-spotted Bumble Bee (Bombus bimaculatus)
- Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)
- Uncertain Field Ant (Formica incerta)
- Weis' Bumble Bee (Bombus weisi)
- Western Collared Ant (Aphaenogaster occidentalis)
- Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
- Western Yellowjacket (Vespula pensylvanica)
- White-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus lucorum)
- Wilmatte's Bumble Bee (Bombus wilmattae)
- Woodland Fuzzy Ant (Lasius americanus)
- woodlouse ant (Myrmecina graminicola)
- Yellow-banded Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola)
- Yellow-faced Bumble Bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee (Bombus flavifrons)
- Yellow-legged Hornet (Vespa velutina)
- Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp (Sceliphron caementarium)