Insects
Insecta
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Kingdom Animalia (animal kingdom)
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Phylum Arthropoda (insects, crustaceans, and their kin)
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Class Insecta (insects)
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Order Hemiptera (true bugs)
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Family Cicadellidae (leafhoppers)
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Family Cicadidae (cicadas)
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Family Aphididae (aphids)
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Order Coleoptera (beetles)
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Family Carabidae (ground beetles)
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Species Brychius hungerfordi
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Family Coccinellidae (lady beetles)
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Family Elmidae (riffle beetles)
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Family Psephenidae (water-penny beetles)
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Family Elateridae (click beetles)
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Order Diptera (true flies, including mosquitos)
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Order Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, and ants)
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Family Apidae (bumble bees and honey bees)
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Species Apis mellifera (honey bee)
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Family Formicidae (ants)
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Order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
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Family Hesperiidae (skippers)
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Species Euphyes dukesi
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Species Danaus plexippus (monarch butterfly)
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Family Lycaenidae (coppers, hairstreaks, and blues (butterflies))
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Species Lycaeides melissa (karner blue)
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Family Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies)
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Species Phyciodes campestris
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Species Phyciodes tharos
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Species Polygonia comma
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Species Speyeria cybele
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Species Speyeria idalia
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Species Vanessa cardui (painted lady butterfly)
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Family Papilionidae (swallowtail butterflies)
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Species Battus philenor (pipevine swallowtail)
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Species Papilio polyxenes
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Species Papilio troilus (spicebush swallowtail)
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Family Pieridae (whites and sulphurs)
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Family Satyridae (wood nymphs and satyrs (butterflies))
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Species Neonympha mitchellii (Mitchell's satyr)
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Species Corydalus cornutus
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Family Chrysopidae (green lacewings)
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Order Thysanoptera (thrips)
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Order Orthoptera (grasshoppers and relatives)
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Family Acrididae (grasshoppers)
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Family Gryllidae (crickets)
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Family Tettigoniidae (katydids)
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Species Orchelimum vulgare (common field katydid)
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Order Blattaria (cockroaches)
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Order Dermaptera (earwigs)
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Order Isoptera (termites)
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Suborder Anisoptera (dragonflies)
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Species Tramea lacerata (black saddlebags)
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Order Thysanura (silverfish)
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Order Collembola (springtails)
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