What Is an Insect?
Insects and their relatives, including spiders and scorpions, belong to a huge group of animals called the arthropods. The main thing that all arthropods have in common is their hard outer coat, which is called an exoskeleton and protects their soft insides. The bodies of arthropods are divided into sections.
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| American House Spider | Arachnids |
| Black Widow Spider | Arachnids |
| Black-and-yellow Garden Spider | Arachnids |
| Black-legged Tick | Arachnids |
| Carolina Wolf Spider | Arachnids |
| Daddy-long-legs | Arachnids |
| Desert Tarantula | Arachnids |
| Giant Hairy Scorpion | Arachnids |
| Goldenrod Spider | Arachnids |
| Green Lynx Spider | Arachnids |
| Windscorpions | Arachnids |
| Convergent Lady Beetle | Beetles |
| Firefly | Beetles |
| Japanese Beetle | Beetles |
| Long-jawed Longhorn Beetle | Beetles |
| May Beetles | Beetles |
| Red Milkweed Beetle | Beetles |
| Rose Weevil | Beetles |
| Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle | Beetles |
| Ten-lined June Beetle | Beetles |
| Two-spotted Lady Beetle | Beetles |
| American Copper | Butterflies and Moths |
| Anise Swallowtail | Butterflies and Moths |
| Black Swallowtail | Butterflies and Moths |
| Bumblebee Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Cabbage White | Butterflies and Moths |
| Cecropia Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Clouded Sulphur | Butterflies and Moths |
| Common Checkered-Skipper | Butterflies and Moths |
| Eastern Tent Caterpillars | Butterflies and Moths |
| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Butterflies and Moths |
| Fiery Skipper | Butterflies and Moths |
| Gray Hairstreak | Butterflies and Moths |
| Gypsy Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Hummingbird Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Imperial Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Long-tailed Skipper | Butterflies and Moths |
| Luna Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Monarch | Butterflies and Moths |
| Mourning Cloak | Butterflies and Moths |
| Ornate Tiger Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Polyphemus Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Red Admiral | Butterflies and Moths |
| Sara Orangetip | Butterflies and Moths |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Butterflies and Moths |
| Spring Azure | Butterflies and Moths |
| Tomato Hornworm | Butterflies and Moths |
| Viceroy | Butterflies and Moths |
| White-lined Sphinx | Butterflies and Moths |
| Woolly Bear Caterpillar Moth | Butterflies and Moths |
| Zebra Swallowtail | Butterflies and Moths |
| House Centipede | Centipedes and Pillbugs |
| Pillbug | Centipedes and Pillbugs |
| Dogday Harvestfly | Cicadas Dobsonflies and Kin |
| Eastern Dobsonfly | Cicadas Dobsonflies and Kin |
| Green Lacewings | Cicadas Dobsonflies and Kin |
| Periodical Cicadas | Cicadas Dobsonflies and Kin |
| Scarlet-and-green Leafhopper | Cicadas Dobsonflies and Kin |
| Assassin Bugs | True Bugs |
| Common Water Strider | True Bugs |
| Green Stink Bug | True Bugs |
| Small Milkweed Bug | True Bugs |
| Squash Bug | True Bugs |
| American Horse Fly | Flies |
| American Hover Fly | Flies |
| Black Flies | Flies |
| Black Horse Fly | Flies |
| Blue Bottle Fly | Flies |
| Common Midge | Flies |
| Crane Flies | Flies |
| Deer Flies | Flies |
| Giant Crane Fly | Flies |
| House Fly | Flies |
| House Mosquito | Flies |
| American Cockroach | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Carolina Locust | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Carolina Mantid | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Differential Grasshopper | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Field Cricket | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Fork-tailed Bush Katydid | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| German Cockroach | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| House Cricket | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Jerusalem Cricket | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Northern Walkingstick | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Praying Mantis | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Snowy Tree Cricket | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| True Katydid | Grasshoppers Crickets and Kin |
| Atlantic Bluet | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Common Green Darner | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Common Whitetail | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Eastern Forktail | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Ebony Jewelwing | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Flame Skimmer | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| Mayflies | Mayflies Dragonflies and Damselflies |
| American Bumblebee | Social Insects |
| Bald-faced Hornet | Social Insects |
| Eastern Subterranean Termite | Social Insects |
| Honey Bee | Social Insects |
| Little Black Ant | Social Insects |
| Paper Wasps | Social Insects |
| Yellow Jacket | Social Insects |
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