At A Glance
As you know if you’ve spent more than five minutes in the area, bugs make up a disproportionate swath of our animal portfolio. Between butterflies, grasshoppers, dragonflies, spiders, and other kinds of invertebrates, more than 8,000 species of bugs live in North Louisiana!
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By The Numbers
Learn more about bugs in North Louisiana.
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Bees
American Bumble Bees
Coming Soon.Two-Spotted Bumble Bees
Coming Soon.Hibiscus Turret Bees
Coming Soon.Common Eastern Bumble Bees
Learn More.Eastern Carpenter Bees
Learn More.Western Honey Bees
Learn More.Butterflies
Buckeye Butterflies
Learn More.Northern Crescent Butterflies
Coming Soon.Phaon Crescent Butterflies
Learn More.Red-Banded Hairstreak Butterflies
Learn More.American Lady Butterflies
Coming Soon.Red-Spotted Purple Butterflies
Learn More.American Snout Butterflies
Coming Soon.Cloudless Sulphur Butterflies
Coming Soon.Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
Coming Soon.Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies
Coming Soon.Viceroy Butterflies
Learn More.Checkered Skippers
Learn More.Silver-Spotted Skippers
Coming Soon.Eastern Tent Caterpillars
Coming Soon.Eastern Comma Butterflies
Coming Soon.Pearl Crescent Butterflies
Coming Soon.Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
Learn More.Monarch Butterflies
Learn More.Red Admiral Butterflies
Learn More.Carolina Satyr Butterflies
Coming Soon.Southern Dogface Butterflies
Coming Soon.Orange Sulphur Butterflies
Coming Soon.Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies
Coming Soon.Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterflies
Coming Soon.Little Yellow Butterflies
Coming Soon.Little Glasswing Skippers
Coming Soon.Buck Moth Caterpillars
Learn More.Beetles
Asian Lady Beetles
Coming Soon.Rainbow Scarab Beetles
Coming Soon.Polished Lady Beetles
Coming Soon.Six-Spotted Tiger Beetles
Learn MoreCrickets & Grasshoppers
Field Crickets
Coming Soon.Differential Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Mischievous Bird Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Red-Legged Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Sulphur-Winged Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Admirable Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers
Learn More.Pallid-Winged Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Short-winged Grasshoppers
Coming Soon.Dragonflies
Eastern Amberwings
Learn MoreCommon Green Darners
Coming Soon.Ebony Jewelwings
Coming Soon.Four-Spotted Pennants
Coming Soon.Eastern Pondhawks
Learn More.Painted Skimmers
Coming Soon.Common Whitetail Dragonflies
Coming Soon.Blue-Tipped Dancers
Coming Soon.Blue Dashers
Learn More.Variegated Meadowhawks
Coming Soon.Halloween Pennant
Coming Soon.Great Blue Skimmers
Coming Soon.Slaty Skimmers
Coming Soon.Flies
Hairy Maggot Blowflies
Coming Soon.Northern Plushback Flies
Coming Soon.Mildly Venomous Spiders (Not Dangerous to Humans or Pets)
White-Banded Fishing Spiders
Coming Soon.Orchard Orb Weavers
Coming Soon.Golden Silk Spiders
Learn More.Furrow Orb Weavers
Learn More.Star-Belled Orb Weavers
Coming Soon.Wasps
Bent-Shielded Besieger Wasps
Coming Soon.Fine-Backed Paper Wasps
Coming Soon.Ringed Paper Wasps
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