This beautiful bee is one of the metallic sweatbees within the genus Agapostemon , known as A. spendens . There are 45 species within this...

Female The Straight-Lanced Meadow Katydid ( Conocephalus strictus ) is a commonly encountered katydid of grasslands, fence rows and othe...

The Six-Spotted Fishing Spiders (Dolomedes triton) are pretty common in Missouri as well as throughout much of their range. They are ...

While in the Smoky Mountains this summer I came across this mottled looking slug clinging to the side of a deciduous tree in the mosses gr...

This uniquely beautiful spider is the White-Banded Fishing Spider ( Dolomedes albineus ). In July of this year my husband and I took a tri...

The Short-Winged Meadow Katydid ( Conocephalus brevipennis ) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae and the subfamily Conocephalinae which a...

Sphinx moths go by many names, such as Hummingbird Moths, Hawk Moths and Hornworms. The one pictured here is called a White-Lined Sphinx...

Autumn seems to be the season for grasshoppers. Tiny grasshopper nymphs hatch from eggs under the soil sometime in the spring or early sum...

Orb Weavers, Orb Weavers, EVERYWHERE Orb Weavers! It seems every tree, bush, shrub, corn stalk and fence has some sort of orb weaver ensco...

This time of year tiny leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers and other "hopping" insects seem to be everywhere. Many of them bl...