Tamarack NP Photo Guide: Bug, Bee/Wasp

Tamarack Nature Preserve Photo Guides: Bugs Bees/Wasps Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan May 2026

Bug Photo Guide

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Seven-spotted lady beetle Coccinella septempunctata

Twenty-spotted lady beetle Psyllobora vigintimaculata

Polished lady beetle (larva) Cycloneda munda

Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis

Ten-spotted spurleg lady beetle Brachiacantha decempustulata

Polished lady beetle Cycloneda munda

Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis

Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Asian lady beetle

Asian lady beetle (larva)

Bean leaf beetle

Bumble flower beetle

Cerotoma trifurcata

Euphoria inda

Dogbane leaf beetle

End band net-winged beetle

Harmonia axyridis

Chrysochus auratus

Goldenrod soldier beetle

Chauliognathus pensylvanicus

Harmonia axyridis

Calopteron terminale

Japanese beetle Popillia japonica

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Margined leatherwing beetle Chauliognathus marginatus

Mottled tortoise beetle Deloyala guttata

Raspberry fruitworm beetle

Six-spotted tiger beetle

Byturus unicolor

Cicindela sexguttata

Striped cucumber beetle

Three-lined potato beetle

Acalymma vittatum

Spotted cucumber beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata

Lema daturaphila

Red milkweed beetle

Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Large milkweed bugs Oncopeltus fasciatus

Small milkweed bug Lygaeus kalmii

Swamp milkweed leaf beetle

Swamp milkweed leaf beetle -larva

Alder spittlebug

Black leaf-leg bug

Labidomera clivicollis

Clastoptera obtusa

Colasposoma

Labidomera clivicollis

Phylloscelis atra

Brachyleptura rubrica

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Black firefly

Common eastern firefly

Lucidota atra

Firefly - nymph

Photinus pyralis

Cryptocephalus

Exema

Four-lined plant bug Poecilocapsus lineatus

Photinus

Nut and acorn weevils Curculio

Grape Colaspis Colaspis brunnea

Four-lined plant bug (nymph) Poecilocapsus lineatus

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Imported long-horned weevil Calomycterus setarius

Meracantha contracta

Redbud seed weevil Gibbobruchus mimus

White-margined burrower bug Sehirus cinctus

Ironweed curculio

Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus

Peach root weevil

Pseudoedophrys hilleri

Scooped scarab

Onthophagus hecate

Brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Diamondback spittlebug Lepyronia quadrangularis

Green stink bug Chinavia hilaris

North American tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris

Corimelaena

Helmeted squash bug - nymph Euthochtha galeator

Green stink bug - nymph Chinavia hilaris

North American tarnished plant bug - nymph Lygus lineolaris

Spine headed bug Acanthocephala terminalis

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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North American wheel bug

North American wheel bug - nymphs

Arilus cristatus

Arilus cristatus

North American wheel bug - nymphs Arilus cristatus

Orange assassin bug

Pale green assassin bug-nymph

Pselliopus barberi

Zelus luridus

Spined soldier bug – adult (L), nymph (R)

American winter ants

Podisus maculiventris

Prenolepis imparis

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Piezogaster calcarator

Piezogaster calcarator - nymph

Ferruginous carpenter ant

Fusca-group field ants

Camponotus chromaiodes

Complex formica fusca

Broad-headed sharpshooter Oncometopia orbona

Buffalo treehopper Tribe ceresini

Stilt bug - nymph Berytidae

Buffalo treehopper - nymph Tribe ceresini

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Green cone-headed planthopper Acanalonia conica

Red-banded leafhopper Graphocephala coccinea

Velvet ant Pseudomethoca simillima

Red-lipped green lacewing - larva

Two-striped planthopper

Two-striped planthopper - nymph

Acanalonia bivittata

Brown stink bug Euschistus servus

Chrysoperla rufilabris

Acanalonia bivittata

Sharpshooter planthopper

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Coppery leafhopper Jikradia olitoria

Chlorotettix tegatus

Tumbling flower beetle Paramordellaria triloba

Northern flatid planthopper Flatormenis proxima

Coppery leafhopper - nymph Jikradia olitoria

Citrus flatid planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa

Dogwood spittlebug Clastoptera proteus

Northern flatid planthopper - nymph Flatormenis proxima

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Melanoliarus placitus

Stripe-horned green lacewing- nymph

Ceraeochrysa lineaticornis

Two-marked treehopper Complex Enchenopa binotata

Red goldenrod aphid Uroleucon nigrotuberculatum

Draeculacephala antica

Texananus

Wooly alder aphid Prociphilus tessellatus

Plant-parasitic hemipteran- nymph Sternorrhyncha

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Southern masked chafer Cyclocephala lurida

Banded longhorn beetle Leptura quadrifasciata

Tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris

Grapevine beetle Pelidnota punctata

Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus

Twenty spotted ladybug Psyllobora vigintimaculata

Corrupt bark louse Psocidae

Reticulated beetle Tenomerga cinerea

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Hyaline plant bug nymph Hyaliodes harti

Hyaline plant bug Hyaliodes harti

Locust borer Megacyllene robiniae

Immigrant pavement ant Tetramorium immigrans

Meadow spittlebug - nymph

Meadow spittlebug

Philaenus spumarius

Philaenus spumarius

Leaf-footed bug

Constricted leafhopper

Acanthocephala terminalis

Agallia constricta

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Obscure plant bug

Plagiognathus obscurius

Leafhopper

Penthimia americana

Stilt bug Jalysus

Varied carpet beetle Anthrenus verbasci

Red-winged tritoma Rotitma sanguinipennis

Goldenrod gall fly

Goldenrod bunch gall midge

Eurosta solidaginis

Rhopalomyia solidaginis

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Grape filbert gall

Midge galls

Ampelomyia vitiscoryloides

Neolasioptera vernoniae

European earwig

Forficula auricularia

Rice root aphids Tetraneura akinire

Grape tube gallmaker Ampelomyia viticola

Hackberry petiole gall psyllid Pachypsylla venusta

Ash flower gall mites Aceria fraxiniflora

Box elder pouch gall mite Aceria negundi

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bug Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Downy flower gall midge Rhopalomyia anthophila

Glechoma gall wasp Liposthenes glechomae

Hackberry nipplegall psyllid Pachypsylla celtidismamma

Bee/Wasp Photo Guide

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Bicolored striped sweat bee Agapostemon virescens

Carlin’s mining bee Andrena carlini

Eastern carpenter bee Xylocopa virginica

Eight-toothed cuckoo leaf-cutter bee Coelioxys octodentatus

Golden northern bumble bee

Ligated furrow bee

Bombus fervidus

Metallic sweat bee Dialictus

Halictus ligatus

Mining bee Andrena

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Nomad bee Nomada

Notch-backed cellophane-cuckoo bee Epeolus scutellaris

Sweat bee

Pure green sweat bee

Augochloropsis

Two-spotted bumble bee Bombus bimaculatus

Wilke’s mining bee Andrena wilkella

Augochlora pura

Small carpenter bee Zadontomerus

Western honeybee Apis mellifera

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Blood bee Sphecodes

Brown-belted bumble bee Bombus griseocollis

Double-banded scoliid wasp Scolia bicincta

Eastern yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons

Common eastern bumble bee Bombus impatiens

Eastern thistle longhorn bee Melissodes desponsus

Dark paper wasp Polistes fuscatus

Potter wasp

Euodynerus foraminatus

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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European paper wasp Polistes dominula

Fraternal potter wasp Eumenes fraternus

Great golden digger wasp Sphex ichneumoneus

Katydid wasp Sphex nudus

Four-toothed mason wasp Monobia quadridens

Great black digger wasp Sphex pensylvanicus

Hump-backed beewolf Philanthus gibbosus

Ichneumon wasp

Ichneumon annulatorius

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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Butterfly hunting wasp Lestica

Thynnid wasp

Myzinum obscurum

Parasitic wasp Arotes decorus

Bald-faced hornet

Dolichovespula maculata

Metric paper wasp Polistes metricus

Gold-marked thread-waisted wasp Eremnophila aureonotata

Smoky-winged beetle bandit wasp Cerceris fumipennis

Bald-faced hornet (nest) Dolichovespula maculata

Tamarack Nature Preserve Bee/Wasp Photo Guide Photography by Pilar Morera. Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan

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American pelecinid wasp Pelecinus polyturator

Tiphiid Wasp Myzinum maculatum

Parasitic wasp Alysiinae

Common thread-waisted wasp Ammophila procera

Hidalgo mason wasp Euodynerus hidalgo

Eastern cicada killer wasp Sphecius speciosus

Braconid wasp Braconidae