Other Insects of Oregon

I have photographed most northwest butterflies and dragonflies but until now have done little with moths, bees, wasps, beetles, flies, spiders, etc. Oregon has about 500 species of bees and probably several times that number of wasps, so I have just scratched the surface.

Only recently have resources for insects other than butterflies and dragonflies become readily available. Some of these cover all of North America (e.g., Bees in Your Backyard or Bumble Bees of North America) while others focus in on just Oregon or the Northwest (e.g., Pacific Northwest Insects or Willamette Valley Bee Guide). Often a website such as iNaturalist or BugGuide can be used to check a tentative ID or provide more examples.

Photos were taken by Dennis Deck unless otherwise specified.

Other Insects (class Insecta)

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• Bees (superfamily Apidea)

• Wasps (superfamily Apoidea)

• Flies (superfamily Asiolea)

• True Bugs (superfamily Asiolea)

• Spiders (order Araneae)

• Daddy Longlegs (order Opiliones)

• Moths (moth superfamilies)

• Grasshoppers (order Orthoptera)

• Grasshoppers (order Orthoptera)

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Insect Resources

Books

• Peterson, Merrill A. Pacific Northwest Insects. Seattle, WA: Seattle Audubon, 2018.

• Haggard, Peter and Judy Haggard. Insects of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: Timberline Press, 2006.

• Williams, Paul H., and Robert W. Thorp. Bumble Bees of North America: An identification guide (Princeton Field Guides, 87).. Princeton University Press, 2014.

• Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia M. Carril. The Bees in your Backyard. Princeton University Press, 2016.

Web

Websites for sharing observatons of wild things snd getting identifiction assistance:

• iNaturalist.com
• BugGuide.net
• Insect Identificaton
• Beetle Identificaton
• The Bees of the Willamette Valley (PDF by August Jackson)