From the tarmac of the Yeager Airport in Charleston to the windswept mountaintops of Dolly Sods, West Virginia is home to many thousand species of insects. This site is designed to help the naturalist learn more about West Virginia’s six-legged inhabitants.

Each page in the site has the groups in taxonomic order, except in the case of genus and species, for which alphabetic order is used. By clicking on the thumbnails, beginning on this page, visitors may navigate to the species pages, which typically include information about size, range, dates, and life history.

At the moment we cover five groups of insects: Odonata, Auchenorrhyncha, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, and Coleoptera. We plan to bring more insect groups on-line in the coming years.

Dragonflies and Damselflies Odonata	Cicadas and Hoppers Auchenorrhyncha	Alderflies, Fishflies, and Allies Megaloptera
Lacewings and Allies Neuroptera	Beetles Coleoptera	Flies Diptera

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