Family Notodontidae    Hodges # 7934 Caterpillar foods: Trembling Aspen  (Bugguide) 4/14/2024   4/14/2024 on Bugguide

Family Libellulidae Adult males have a short, stout, chalky light blue abdomen and wide dark patches on each wing.  Females have a short stout abdomen which is brown with several oblique light markings;  their wings have 3 evenly spaced patches.  Young males have the female body pattern, but the male wing pattern.  (Bugguide) Females can […]

Family Libellulidae Very small dragonflies (21-24 mm) found in the eastern 2/3 of the U.S. near ponds, lakes and still areas of streams.   (Bugguide) Males have amber colored wings; females have dark brown or reddish wing bands. 7/6/2012  Female   7/15/2020  Male   7/13/2020  Male on Bugguide

Family Libellulidae Both males and females have 12 dark spots on the wings.  Mature males also have 8 white spots, as well as white at the base of hindwings.  Young males – newly emerged adults – have brown bodies that look like females.  As they age, their bodies get more pruniose – dusty blue-white.  (Bugguide) […]

Family Libellulidae Males have a large area of brown near the body on all four wings, and a whitish area in the middle of the wings.  Their bodies become ‘pruniose’ – whitish-blue – as they age.   Females and immature males have the brown wing bands, but no white.   Their abdomens are brown with […]

Family Libellulidae Found near vegetated ponds, lakes, sluggish backwaters and bogs.  (Bugguide)  Common in farm ponds. (Wisconsin Odonata Survey) Adult males are mostly black with a white face, black legs, and one yellow spot on the 7th segment of the abdomen.  Females and young males have yellow markings on the abdomen, and the same prominent […]

Family Cixiidae Nymphs feed underground on roots and possibly fungi.  Many adults are presumed to be polyphagous.  This group needs more work on taxonomy.  (Bugguide) 7/5/2022   7/9/2018   6/8/2019   7/4/2014   8/20/2010   8/20/2023 on Bugguide on Bugguide

Family Rhopalidae Hosts:  Box Elder and other maple species; Soapberry (Sapindus spaonaria)  (Bugguide) Not a commercial pest, but a nuisance when it enters buildings in late fall looking for places to hibernate.   (Bugguide) 2/26/2024   9/28/2012   10/10/2005   9/29/2012  under the eaves of our garage   9/21/2023  Tucked in the siding of our […]

Family Rhyparochromidae 8/15/2022 on Bugguide

Family Tingidae Host: Linden (Basswood)  (Bugguide) 7/13/2009  An adult and many juveniles on the underside of a linden leaf   7/13/2009   5/13/2023  At my moth lights   5/13/2023 on Bugguide