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Wild Carolina: Insects

This is a useful site for picture identification.

Flies

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Yellow Fly (Diachlorus ferrugatus) (?)

I think this is a Yellow Fly, but many of the pictures that come up in an online search have more color in the wings and eyes. Could this be a young one?

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Common Green Bottlefly (Lucilia sericata)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
To be identified

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Long-Legged Fly (Chrysosoma)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [Male]
Robberfly (Efferia)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Black Horse Fly (Tabanus atratus)

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
tbi

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
Robberfly (Promachus hinei)

Ants

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Black Carpenter Ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus)

Dragonflies and Damselflies

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [Female]
Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [male]
Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [female]
Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [male]
Eastern Pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
tbi

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
Blue-Fronted Dancer (?)

Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Katydids

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [Male]
Red-Headed Bush Cricket (aka Handsome Trig) (Phyllopalpus pulchellus)
  • Here is someone else's video of one of these crickets, which makes me wish I'd spent more time watching this one in my backyard.

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
tbi

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Two-Striped Grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus)

Bees and Wasps

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Blood Bee (aka Cuckoo Bee?) (Sphecodes)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)
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Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Red Paper Wasp (?)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Yellow Jacket(?)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
​Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
  • Non-native

Hoppers

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Candy-Striped Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Planthopper (Acanolonia)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Flatid Planthopper (?)

Beetles and Misc. Bugs

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Kudzu Beetle (Megacopta cribraria)
  • Non-native (native to India and China)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Two-Lined Spittlebug (Prosapia bicincta)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
Eastern-Eyed Click Beetle (Alaus oculatus)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Robinson's Annual Cicada (Neotibicen robinsonianus)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Ox Beetle (?)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Green June Beetle (Cotinis nitida)

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
tbi

Picture
American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana)
  • Non-native

Moths and Butterflies

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018) [caterpillar on milkweed]
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)

Picture
Columbia, SC (July 2018)
American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
Zebra Swallowtail (Protographium marcellus)

Picture
Fairfield County, SC (August 2018)
Red-Spotted Purple Admiral (Limenitis arthemis)

Picture
Columbia, SC (August 2018)
To be identified (moth)

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