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Bugs Guide
Bugs Guide for Georgia
Mountains, marshes, forests, and coastal wildlife
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in Georgia. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
343
Species
152
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Bugs across Georgia
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within Georgia's wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
Recent insect sightings in Georgia
A recent look at insect sightings across Georgia.
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Sightings Map
See where insect sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across Georgia.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 bugs to look for in Georgia
These bugs are snapped the most across this region.
Asian Lady Beetle
20 snaps
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
14 snaps
Common Buckeye
13 snaps
Fiery Skipper
12 snaps
Blue Dasher
6 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for bugs in Georgia
These place guides connect well with the bugs covered in this region.
Park30 sightings12 species
Georgia, US
St. Catherines Island
You might spot Monarch, Sandhill Milkweed, and Fiery Skipper.
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Park92 sightings9 species
Georgia, US
Stone Mountain Park
You might spot Elf Orpine, Dimpled Trout Lily, and Porter's Sunflower.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Georgia, US
Old Clinton Historic District
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Bee.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Georgia, US
Greensboro Commercial Historic District
You might spot Riley's 13-Year Cicada, Joro Spider, and Asian Lady Beetle.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Georgia, US
Milledgeville Historic District
You might spot Eastern Gray Squirrel, Anole, and White Clover.
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Park30 sightings12 species
Georgia, US
Savannah–Ogeechee Canal
You might spot Anole, Pond Slider, and Spanish Moss.
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Full Guide
Full Georgia bugs list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Asian Lady Beetle
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Common Buckeye
Fiery Skipper
Blue Dasher
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Magnolia Green Jumping Spider
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Bee
Giant leaf-footed bug
Japanese Beetle
Monarch Butterfly
North American Wheel Bug
Twin-Flagged Jumping Spider
Banded Tussock Moth
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Carolina Mantis
Eastern Giant Swallowtail
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Riley's 13-Year Cicada
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
American Lady
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Common Whitetail
Dun Skipper
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Eastern Pondhawk
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Gray Hairstreak
Gulf Fritillary
Horace's Duskywing
Horned Passalid
Lichen-carrying Green Lacewing
Two-Lined Spittlebug
Acanthocephala terminalis
Admiral Butterfly
Blue Corporal
Broad-Winged Skipper
Carolina Satyr
Common Eastern Velvet Ant
Common Pill Woodlouse
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Fall Webworm Moth
Fir Tussock Moth
Giant Leopard Moth
Golden Silk Spider
Great Blue Skimmer
Great Spangled Fritillary
Large Milkweed Bug
Luna Moth
Organ-Pipe Mud-Dauber Wasp
Oriental Beetle
Pearl Crescent
Periodical Cicadas
Phaon Crescent
Queen
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Salt Marsh Skipper
Sculptured Resin Bee
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Smokybrown Cockroach
Southern Masked Chafer
Tan Jumping Spider
Variable Dancer
Waved Sphinx
Widow Skimmer
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
Zebra Swallowtail
American Bird Grasshopper
American Cockroach
American Dog Tick
Appalachian Brown
Bedbug
Bent-Spined Acorn Ant
Broad-headed Sharpshooter
Broad-tipped Conehead
Cabbage White
Calico Pennant
Canadian Melanolophia Moth
Cassin's 13-Year Cicada
Catalpa Sphinx
Cecropia Moth
Changeable Mantleslug
Colorado Potato Beetle
Common Micropanther
Common Picture-winged Fly
Dark Flower Scarab
Eastern Amberwing
Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Calligrapher
Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp
Eastern Comma
Eastern Hercules Beetle
Eastern Leaf-footed Bug
Eastern Subterranean Termite
Eastern Yellowjacket
Ebony Jewelwing
Elegant Grass-veneer
False Milkweed Bug
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant
Firefly
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
Great Golden Digger Wasp
Groundselbush beetle
Hackberry Emperor
Halloween Pennant
Isabella Tiger Moth
Little Wood Satyr
Live Oak Metria Moth
Lone Star Tick
Margined Calligrapher
Margined Tiger Beetle
Milkweed Assassin Bug
Northern Fungus-farming Ant
Obscure Bird Grasshopper
Orange Sulphur
Painted Lichen Moth
Pipevine Swallowtail
Polyphemus Moth
Question Mark
Rainbow Scarab
Red Admiral
Red-Headed Bush Cricket
Silver-spotted Skipper
Sleepy Orange
Southern Flannel Moth
Southern Pink-striped Oakworm Moth
Spicebush Swallowtail
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Summer Azure
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Sycamore Tussock Moth
Taeniaptera Trivittata
Tailed Cellar Spider
Tulip-tree Beauty
Tulip-tree Silkmoth
Two-spotted Longhorn Bee
Varied Carpet Beetle
Variegated Fritillary
Versute Sharpshooter
Viceroy
Whirlabout
White-dotted Prominent
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth
Zabulon Skipper
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