ento 25-26 bugs

protura/telsontails

collembola/springtail

ephemeroptera/mayfly

order

odonata

eyes together (main diff from clubtails aside from no club on the tail)

brightish

curvy bodies

aeshnidae/darners

eyes dont touch

long body with clubbed tail

obeseish

gohmpidae/clubtails

eyes touch

sometimes pattern on the wing

fat body

flat wings/spread out in a sense

bright

libellulidae/skimmers

eyes not tgt

wings perched (not in this photo)

the black spot is long

lestidae/spread-winged damselflies

eyes wide (bulky as well) but dont touch

bright

thin

wings closed

coenagrionidae/narrow winged damselfly

blattodea/roaches

termitidae

Cryptocercidae/wood roaches

order

no sphincter thingy

long

embioptera/webspinners

plecoptera / stoneflies

order

orthoptera 

tetrigidae/pygmy

Rhaphidophoridae/camel cricket

phasmatodea/phasmid

order

hemiptera/true bugs

could be hella thin

nepidae/water scropion

ugly wide fat

gelastocoridae/toad bugs

ur cooked for ID

also has diamond, but is less flat than milkweed

miridae/plant bug

metallic

5 segments of antennae

back fully covered

“pinched back”

scutelleridae/jewel bugs

tingidae/lace bugs

not always red; can be brown

flat

diamond on back

lygaeidae/milkweed bugs

horrifying

grasshoppers with wings

cicadidae/cicadas

pseudococcidae

coccidae/soft scales

top 10 ugliest

megaloptera/dobsonflies

order

coleoptera 

psephenidae/water penny

long ahh weird legs

underwater

elmidae/riffle beetles,

small rounded lookin

flat

histeridae/clown beetles

all unique

silphidae/carrion

cockroach peanut

ugly

elateridae/click beetle

funky head outer coating

lampyridae/fireflies

looks like a fly

funky texture

long antenna

lycidae

sometimes striped

fuzzy

long back legs

cleridae/checkered beetles

coccinellidae/ladybug

or it can legit look like iron

rough body

white with stops or barky lookin

bulky

zopheridae/ironclad

back lowk looks like a popsicle

wired antenna

cucujidae/flat bark beetle

order

mecroptera/ scorpion flies

no wings

boreidae/snow scorpionflies

panorpidae/scorpionflies

diptera

moquito but thinner legs

tipulidae/crane fly

fat longer and bigger mosquitos

large ahh bodies

chironomidae/non biting midges

black

simuliidae/black fly

bees but pointy

syrphidae/hoverflies

hella unique but look at diff kinds

tephritidae/fruitfly

look like tics with wings

hippoboscidae/louse flies

red eyes

lowk regular

tachinidae/parasitic fly

oestridae/bot flies

tortricidae 

nymphalidea

geometridae

lasiocampidae

pyralidae 

saturniidae

erebidae

noctuidae

order

hymenoptera 

siricidae / horntail

cynipidae/gallwasps

braconidae/braconid wasp

Archaeognatha/bristle tail

Zygentoma/silverfish 

diplura

mantodea/mantid

they have black gunk in their bodies

can be green

notoptera/icecrawler

dermaptera/earwig

plecoptera/stonewing