Insect Orders
Insect Orders and Examples of Each
Here is a list of insects that can be found locally. This is not a complete list of all of the insects; just a small sample. As stated in the Science Insect Project letter, you are required to collect one insect from each of these five orders (Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera,) and five additional insects from five different orders that we have not studied to earn an A+. Coleoptera Hymenoptera Orthoptera Lepidoptera Ladybird Beetle Honeybee Short-horned Grasshopper Monarch Butterfly (Ladybug) Paper Wasp Field Cricket Swallowtail Butterfly Firefly Bumblebees House Cricket Cabbage Butterfly Glowworms Carpenter Ant Lubber Grasshopper Gypsy Moth Ground Beetle Bold-face Hornet *German cockroach Cecropia Moth Long-horned Beetle Sweat Bee *Silverfish Luna Moth Click Beetle Black Ant *Walking Stick Clouded Sulphur Boll Weevil Yellow Jacket *Praying Mantis Dung Beetle Black-faced Hornet *Chinese Mantid Japanese Beetle Wasps *These insects are listed in more than one “order,” Carrion Beetles so they can be used as an “extra” order instead Caterpillar Hunters of Orthoptera. Water Beetles May Beetles Scarab Beetles Horn Beetles Weevils June Bug Hemiptera Odonata Diptera Homoptera Water Strider Ten-Spot Dragonfly House fly Cicada Black Swimmer Green Darner Fruit fly Cicada Nymph or Exoskeleton Water Boatman Black-Winged Damsel Fly Crane Fly Buffalo Treehoppers Assassin Bug Horse fly Leafhopper Ambush Bug Bluebottle Fly Aphid Nymph Giant Water Bug Gnat Mealy bug Stink Bug Mosquito Froghopper Squash Bug Planthopper Bed Bug Milkweed Bug / Boxelder Bug
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