Interactive Bugs

North American Bugs

North America has a butterfly that flies to Mexico, a cicada that waits seventeen years, and a wasp that hunts tarantulas. Choose a place and one will follow you round it.

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Two places to discover

Backyard A monarch butterfly, a firefly, a periodical cicada, a black widow, a luna moth and a green darner dragonfly. 6 bugs Desert A desert tarantula, a tarantula hawk wasp, a bark scorpion, a honeypot ant, a stink beetle and a rainbow grasshopper. 6 bugs

Things to do

A to ZEvery bug on the site in one list, grouped by where it lives. Bugs by typeBeetles together, butterflies together, spiders together, from all over the world. My spotter's listSeen one for real? Tick it off. QuizWho is this? Ten quick questions, and a new set every time.

From the porch light to the desert

Some of the most remarkable insects in the world turn up in ordinary American gardens. Others need a torch, a warm night and a little nerve.

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