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Bug of the Month archive

This is an archived list of all previous Bug of the Month entries I have featured on the home page, a feature I added to the site in April 2024. Enjoy perusing the various arthropod friends on this page!

2024 archive


  • December 2024-Platerodrilus montanus, the trilobite beetle (Insecta, Coleoptera, Lycidae, Leptolycinae) (Image credit: Michal Masek & Ladislav Bocak on Wikimedia Commons, 2014).

  • November 2024-Coscinocera hercules, the Hercules Moth (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Saturniidae) (Image credit: Jerrye and Roy Klotz MD on Wikimedia Commons, 2007)

  • October 2024-Trichonephila clavata, the Joro spider (Arachnida, Araneae, Nephilidae). (Image credit: Christina Butler, 2020).

  • September 2024-Scolopendra gigantea, the Amazonian giant centipede (Myriapoda, Chilopoda, Scolopendramorpha, Scolopendridae). (Image credit: Katka Nemčoková, 2011).

  • August 2024-Deinopis longipes, the net-casting spider (Arachnida, Araneae, Deinopidae). (Image credit: Judy Gallagher (Flickr), 2015.

  • July 2024-Dynastes tityus, the Eastern Hercules Beetle (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). (Image credit: Mr4567 on Wikimedia Commons, 2007.)

  • June 2024-Idolomantis diabolia, the Devil's Flower Mantis (Insecta, Mantodea, Empusidae). (Image credit: Drägü on Wikimedia Commons, 2011.)

  • May 2024-Caenocholax fenyesi, a twisted wing parasite (Insecta, Strepsiptera, Myrmecolacidae). (Image credit: D. Pierce, 1911)

  • April 2024-Dynastes satanas, Satan beetle (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). (Image credit: Musée d'histoire naturelle de Lille, 2008)