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Coasts, woodlands, marshes, and seasonal birdlife
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in Massachusetts. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
822
Species
172
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within Massachusetts' wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
A recent look at insect sightings across Massachusetts.
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across Massachusetts.
Top Highlights
These bugs are snapped the most across this region.





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Places to Start
These place guides connect well with the bugs covered in this region.

Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Bee, and American Robin.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Bee, and Eastern Calligrapher.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Asian Lady Beetle.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Bee, and American Robin.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Turkey, Garter Snake, and Multiflora Rose.
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Massachusetts, US
You might spot Eastern Cottontail and American Robin.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Asian Lady Beetle
Bee
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Common Whitetail
Bold Jumping Spider
Horseshoe Crab
Monarch Butterfly
Spring Fishfly
Hickory Tussock Moth
Tan Jumping Spider
Stripe-legged Robber Fly
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Mourning Cloak
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Io Moth
Rosy Maple Moth
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Little Wood Satyr
American Nursery Web Spider
Common Pill Woodlouse
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Isabella Tiger Moth
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Zebra Jumping Spider
American Lady
American Dog Tick
Chalk-fronted Corporal
Dot-tailed Whiteface
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Pale Beauty
Red Admiral
Bald-faced Hornet
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Brown-lipped Snail
Common Ringlet
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Question Mark
Red Milkweed Beetle
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Spotted Lanternfly
American Copper
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Fragile Forktail
Luna Moth
Margined Calligrapher
Peck's Skipper
Red-banded Leafhopper
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Virginian Tiger Moth
Widow Skimmer
Admiral Butterfly
Banded Tussock Moth
Blue Dasher
Common Rough Woodlouse
Dark Fishing Spider
Eastern Calligrapher
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Eastern Pondhawk
Ebony Jewelwing
European Paper Wasp
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
House Centipede
Orchard Orbweaver
Painted Lady
Polyphemus Moth
Spicebush Swallowtail
Viceroy
Virginia Creeper Sphinx
Winter Firefly
American Carrion Beetle
Black Cherry Leaf Gall Mite
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Common Micropanther
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Eastern Forktail
Eastern Yellowjacket
European Woolcarder Bee
Green-Striped Grasshopper
Juvenal's Duskywing
Meal Moth
Mediterranean Katydid
Northern Paper Wasp
Porcelain Gray
Portly Spider Crab
Silver-spotted Skipper
Slaty Skimmer
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Twice-Stabbed Stink Bug
White-striped Black
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
Acanthocephala terminalis
American Carpenter Ant
American Giant Millipede Complex
Apple Sphinxes
Baltimore Snout
Blue Corporal
Box Tree Moth
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Calico Pennant
Canadian Petrophila
Chinese Mantis
Chinese Mystery Snail
Common Aerial Yellowjacket
Common Atlantic Slippersnail
Dicyrtomina Ornata
Differential Grasshopper
Dobsonfly
Eastern Black-Legged Tick
Eastern Giant Swallowtail
Eastern Regal Oak Mirid
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
Emerald Ash Borer
European Green Crab
European Mantis
F-winged Barklouse
Fall Cankerworm Moth
Giant Leopard Moth
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
Holarctic Alderflies
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Indian-Meal Moth
Keeled Treehopper
Large Yellow Underwing
Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp
Leopard Slug
Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth
Ligated Furrow Bee
Linden Looper Moth
Lone Star Tick
Lost Owlet
Meadow Plant Bug
Milky Slug
Mud Fiddler Crab
Northeastern Hammertail
Northern Broken-Dash
Oak Bush-cricket
Painted Lichen Moth
Pearl Crescent
Peppered Moth
Promethea Silkmoth
Quahog Clam
Red-Headed Bush Cricket
Reddish-brown Stag Beetle
Round Bullet Gall Wasp
Rounded Snail
Single-dotted Wave
Six-Spotted Fishing Spider
Small Bird-dropping Moth
Small Magpie
Small Milkweed Bug
Speziorchestia Grillus
Spongy Moth
Summer Fishfly
Three-lined Potato Beetle
Tricolored Bumble Bee
Two-spotted Lady Beetle
Two-striped Grasshopper
White Corporal
White-dotted Prominent
Widow Yellowjacket
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow-Collared Scape Moth
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth
Zabulon Skipper
Other Guides
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