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Bugs Guide
Bugs Guide for Connecticut
Coastal nature, woodlands, marshes, and birdlife
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in Connecticut. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
514
Species
148
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Bugs across Connecticut
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within Connecticut's wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
Recent insect sightings in Connecticut
A recent look at insect sightings across Connecticut.
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Sightings Map
See where insect sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across Connecticut.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 bugs to look for in Connecticut
These bugs are snapped the most across this region.
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Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
27 snaps
Monarch Butterfly
26 snaps
Asian Lady Beetle
23 snaps
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
21 snaps
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Spotted Lanternfly
20 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for bugs in Connecticut
These place guides connect well with the bugs covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Connecticut, US
Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and American Nursery Web Spider.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Connecticut, US
Central Village Historic District
You might spot American Nursery Web Spider and Red-Tailed Hawk.
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Connecticut, US
Burnett's Corner
You might spot Duck, Painted Turtle, and Great Blue Heron.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Connecticut, US
Downtown Seymour Historic District
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Bee, and Red Fox.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Connecticut, US
Metro South Historic District
You might spot Common Mugwort, Red-Tailed Hawk, and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Connecticut, US
Dayville Historic District
You might spot Hay-Scented Fern, Canada Mayflower, and Wood Frog.
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Full Guide
Full Connecticut bugs list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Monarch Butterfly
Asian Lady Beetle
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Spotted Lanternfly
Bee
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Spicebush Swallowtail
Hickory Tussock Moth
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Common Whitetail
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Bold Jumping Spider
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Juvenal's Duskywing
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
American Dog Tick
American Lady
Isabella Tiger Moth
Little Wood Satyr
Spring Fishfly
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Black Swallowtail
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Ebony Jewelwing
Fragile Forktail
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Orchard Orbweaver
Tan Jumping Spider
American Carrion Beetle
American Nursery Web Spider
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Eastern Forktail
Eastern Yellowjacket
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Luna Moth
Pale Beauty
Red Admiral
Tulip-tree Beauty
Zebra Jumping Spider
Acanthocephala terminalis
Admiral Butterfly
American Copper
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Dobsonfly
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Pondhawk
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
Green Cloverworm Moth
Margined Calligrapher
Pearl Crescent
Polyphemus Moth
Question Mark
Silver-spotted Skipper
Summer Fishfly
Tawny-Edged Skipper
Unequal Cellophane Bee
Varied Carpet Beetle
Wetland Giant Wolf Spider
American Dagger
Bald-faced Hornet
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Blue Dasher
Cabbage White
Chinese Mantis
Common Aerial Yellowjacket
Dark Fishing Spider
Dot-tailed Whiteface
Eastern Calligrapher
End Band Net-winged Beetle
Horseshoe Crab
House Centipede
Large Yellow Underwing
Ligated Furrow Bee
Mourning Cloak
Peck's Skipper
Promethea Silkmoth
Rosy Maple Moth
Virginian Tiger Moth
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
American Winter Ant
Atlantic Ribbed Mussel
Autumn Meadowhawk
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Black Vine Weevil
Blinded Sphinx
Broad-necked Root Borer
Brown Elfin
Brown-lipped Snail
Cecropia Moth
Changeable Mantleslug
Common Atlantic Slippersnail
Common Blue Mud-Dauber Wasp
Common Green Darner
Common Green June Beetle
Common Pill Woodlouse
Common Rough Woodlouse
Delicate Cycnia Moth
Dichelotarsus
Downy Yellowjacket
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Eastern Regal Oak Mirid
Eastern Subterranean Termite
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Four-lined Plant Bug
Funnel-web Spider
Gray Comma
Half-black Bumble Bee
Hemlock Looper Moth
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
Holarctic Alderflies
Io Moth
Japanese Beetle
Large Lace-Border Moth
Lesser Anglewing
Long Dash
Meadow Plant Bug
Megalodacne heros
Milkweed Tussock Moth
Oleander Aphid
Painted Lady
Peppered Moth
Rathke'S Woodlouse
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Scarce Straw Pearl
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Shadow Darner
Small Milkweed Bug
Spongy Moth
Spotted Longhorn Beetle
Sulphur Moth
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Transverse-banded Flower Fly
Tulip-tree Silkmoth
Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle
Variable Dancer
Variegated Lady Beetle
White Corporal
White-dotted Prominent
White-lined Sphinx
White-striped Black
Widow Skimmer
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Willow Leaf Beetle
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee
Zabulon Skipper
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