Jun 19, 2026
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Mountains, forests, lakes, coasts, and parks
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in New York. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
753
Species
193
Active Months
12

Category Overview
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within New York's wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
A recent look at insect sightings across New York.
Jun 19, 2026
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Jun 18, 2026
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Jun 12, 2026
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Jun 7, 2026
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Jun 7, 2026
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Jun 6, 2026
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Sightings Map
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across New York.
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.

New York, US
You might spot Bald Eagle, Common Reed, and Ring-Billed Gull.
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New York, US
You might spot Monarch and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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New York, US
You might spot Stream Bluet, Variable Dancer, and Eastern Pondhawk.
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New York, US
You might spot Bald Eagle, Common Eastern Bumble Bee, and Red-Tailed Hawk.
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New York, US
You might spot Eastern Carpenter Bee and Milkweed Tussock Moth.
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New York, US
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee and Asian Lady Beetle.
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Full Guide
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
Bee
Asian Lady Beetle
Spotted Lanternfly
Monarch Butterfly
Widow Skimmer
Bold Jumping Spider
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Cabbage White
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Silver-spotted Skipper
Zebra Jumping Spider
Blue Dasher
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Red Admiral
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Margined Calligrapher
Spicebush Swallowtail
American Lady
Black Swallowtail
Hickory Tussock Moth
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Zabulon Skipper
American Nursery Web Spider
Common Whitetail
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Polyphemus Moth
Tan Jumping Spider
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Fragile Forktail
Orchard Orbweaver
Pale Beauty
Spongy Moth
American Dog Tick
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Chinese Mantis
Dark Fishing Spider
Eastern Calligrapher
Ebony Jewelwing
European Paper Wasp
Horseshoe Crab
Large Yellow Underwing
Little Wood Satyr
Mourning Cloak
Painted Lady
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Question Mark
Spring Fishfly
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Brown-lipped Snail
Eastern Comma
Eastern Forktail
Eurasian Drone Fly
European Mantis
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant
Isabella Tiger Moth
Red Milkweed Beetle
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Admiral Butterfly
Carpenter Bee
Cecropia Moth
Common Pill Woodlouse
European Hornet
European Woolcarder Bee
Giant Leopard Moth
House Centipede
Io Moth
Red-Banded Hairstreak
Small Milkweed Bug
Virginia Creeper Sphinx
Woodlouse Spider
Ailanthus Webworm Moth
American Carrion Beetle
Carolina Grasshopper
Carolina Mantis
Dobsonfly
Earthworm
Eastern Giant Swallowtail
Eastern Pondhawk
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Four-lined Plant Bug
Golden-backed Snipe Fly
Great Spangled Fritillary
Hobomok Skipper
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Japanese Beetle
Keeled Treehopper
Larinioides Cornutus
Leopard Slug
Ligated Furrow Bee
Margined Leatherwing Beetle
Milkweed Tussock Moth
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Northern Crescent
Oriental Beetle
Pearl Crescent
Reddish-brown Stag Beetle
Thick-Legged Hover Fly
Transverse-banded Flower Fly
Wetland Giant Wolf Spider
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Acanthocephala terminalis
American Carpenter Ant
American Copper
American Snout
American Winter Ant
Baltimore Checkerspot
Banded Tussock Moth
Bearded Carpenter ant
Black Vine Weevil
Brown Rove Beetle
Chalk-fronted Corporal
Chestnut Carpenter Ant
Clouded Sulphur
Common Blue Mud-Dauber Wasp
Common Buckeye
Common Green Darner
Common Ringlet
Delicate Cycnia Moth
Dun Skipper
Eastern Black-Legged Tick
Eastern Regal Oak Mirid
Eastern Yellow-Backed Laphria
Eastern Yellowjacket
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
Fall Field Cricket
Gray Hairstreak
Great Golden Digger Wasp
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
Half-black Bumble Bee
Halloween Pennant
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
Holarctic Alderflies
Horace's Duskywing
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
Jewel Beetle
Large Lace-Border Moth
Larger Empty Oak Apple Wasp
Luna Moth
Meal Moth
Mediterranean Katydid
Megalodacne heros
Milky Slug
Narrow-winged Tree Cricket
Northeastern Hammertail
Northern Dog-day Cicada
Northern Paper Wasp
Oak Bush-cricket
Oleander Aphid
Orange Sulphur
Organ-Pipe Mud-Dauber Wasp
Peppered Moth
Periodical Cicadas
Pharaoh Cicada
Porcelain Gray
Quahog Clam
Red-banded Leafhopper
Ruby Tiger Moth
Sculptured Resin Bee
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Shadow Darner
Six-Spotted Fishing Spider
Small Magpie
Southern Masked Chafer
Southern Yellowjacket
Stripe-legged Robber Fly
Striped Cucumber Beetle
Summer Azure
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Three-lined Potato Beetle
Tiger Bee Fly
Tricolored Bumble Bee
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Twice-Stabbed Stink Bug
Two-spotted Lady Beetle
Two-striped Grasshopper
Unequal Cellophane Bee
Variable Duskyface Fly
Variegated Lady Beetle
Viceroy
Virginia Ctenucha Moth
Virginian Tiger Moth
Waterlily Leaf Beetle
Waved Sphinx
White-dotted Prominent
White-striped Black
Willow Leaf Beetle
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
Yellow-Collared Scape Moth
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