Bug of the Month

Bug of the Month is a student–run monthly post which highlights the diversity of insects found in Pennsylvania.

Initiated by Entomology graduate student Rachel McLaughlin, this effort combines her passions for photography, entomology, and natural history. Learn more by visiting her Facebook page, Bugging Over Science.

Sweat Bee

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Agapostemon spp.

Common Drone Fly

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Eristalis tenax

Cuckoo Bee

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Nomada spp.

Twelve-Spotted Skimmer

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Libellula pulchella

Little Wood Satyr

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Megisto cymela

Halloween pennant dragonfly

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Celithemis eponina

American pelecinid wasp

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Pelecinus polyturator

Common Buckeye

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(Junonia coenia)

Cuckoo Sweat Bee

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Sphecodes spp.

Rainbow Scarab

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Phanaeus vindex

Monarch Butterfly

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Danaus plexippus

Bumblebee Mimic

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Laphria flavicollus

Spicebush swallowtail

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Papilio troilus

Common Stonefly

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Plecoptera: Perlidae