Jun 19, 2026
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Bugs Guide
Bugs Guide for Ohio
Forests, wetlands, rivers, and Lake Erie
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in Ohio. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
686
Species
185
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Bugs across Ohio
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within Ohio's wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
Recent insect sightings in Ohio
A recent look at insect sightings across Ohio.
Jun 17, 2026
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Jun 15, 2026
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Jun 12, 2026
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Sightings Map
See where insect sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across Ohio.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 bugs to look for in Ohio
These bugs are snapped the most across this region.
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Spotted Lanternfly
35 snaps
Eastern Carpenter Bee
34 snaps
Monarch Butterfly
26 snaps
Ebony Jewelwing
25 snaps
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Eastern Forktail
20 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for bugs in Ohio
These place guides connect well with the bugs covered in this region.
Park47 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Mount Airy Forest
You might spot Spotted Lanternfly, Virginia Springbeauty, and Blue Phlox.
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Park46 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Hoffner Historic District
You might spot Brown-Belted Bumble Bee and Eastern Carpenter Bee.
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Park36 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Tom S. Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve
You might spot Canada Goose and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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Park47 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Brookside Reservation
You might spot Spotted Lanternfly and White-Tailed Deer.
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Park47 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Chadwick Arboretum
You might spot Widow Skimmer, Eastern Pondhawk, and Bee.
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Park43 sightings50 species
Ohio, US
Wildwood Preserve Metropark
You might spot Common Eastern Bumble Bee, Rudbeckia, and Bee.
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Full Guide
Full Ohio bugs list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Spotted Lanternfly
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Monarch Butterfly
Ebony Jewelwing
Eastern Forktail
Asian Lady Beetle
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Bee
Common Whitetail
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Black Saddlebags
Bold Jumping Spider
Fragile Forktail
Bald-faced Hornet
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Calligrapher
Familiar Bluet
Red Admiral
Black Swallowtail
Blue Dasher
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Eastern Pondhawk
Margined Leatherwing Beetle
Orange Bluet
Powdered Dancer
Isabella Tiger Moth
Red Milkweed Beetle
Silver-spotted Skipper
Stream Bluet
Zebra Jumping Spider
American Nursery Web Spider
Four-lined Plant Bug
Golden-backed Snipe Fly
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Margined Calligrapher
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Widow Skimmer
Cabbage White
Chinese Mantis
Orchard Orbweaver
Tan Jumping Spider
American Dog Tick
Bearded Carpenter ant
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Common Green Darner
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
Great Spangled Fritillary
Hickory Tussock Moth
Narcissus Bulb Fly
Red-banded Leafhopper
Spring Fishfly
Zebra Swallowtail
Blue-tipped Dancer
Calico Pennant
Common Buckeye
Common Micropanther
Common Pill Woodlouse
Dark Fishing Spider
Double-striped Bluet
Eastern Amberwing
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Eastern Comma
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant
Hackberry Emperor
Japanese Beetle
Little Wood Satyr
Meadow Fritillary
Mourning Cloak
Pipevine Swallowtail
Polyphemus Moth
Promethea Silkmoth
Slender Bluet
White-dotted Prominent
American Winter Ant
Black-and-gold Bumble Bee
Blue-fronted Dancer
Brown-lipped Snail
Coppery Leafhopper
Dark Flower Scarab
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
European Paper Wasp
Firefly
Giant Leopard Moth
Greater Bee Fly
Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
Luna Moth
Porcelain Gray
Question Mark
Running Crab Spiders
Small Bird-dropping Moth
Small Milkweed Bug
Smeared Dagger
Spicebush Swallowtail
Turfgrass Ant
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Variable Dancer
Variegated Lady Beetle
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp
Acanthocephala terminalis
Admiral Butterfly
Agromyza vockerothi
Ailanthus Webworm Moth
American Bird Grasshopper
American Bumble Bee
American Carrion Beetle
American Giant Millipede Complex
American Lady
American Rubyspot
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Bean Leaf Beetle
Bent-Spined Acorn Ant
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Blue Corporal
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Brown Rove Beetle
Carolina Mantis
Carolina Saddlebags
Carolina Sphinx
Cecropia Moth
Common Checkered-Skipper
Delicate Cycnia Moth
Dobsonfly
Dot-Lined White
Dot-tailed Whiteface
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Eastern Yellow-Backed Laphria
Elm Sphinx
Eurasian Drone Fly
European Woolcarder Bee
Evergreen Bagworm Moth
Fall Webworm Moth
False Leptura Beetle
False Milkweed Bug
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Gray Hairstreak
Green Cloverworm Moth
Green Stink Bug
Guano Beetle
Hairy-Headed Acrobat Ant
Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
Imperial Moth
Keeled Treehopper
Large Lace-Border Moth
Large Maple Spanworm Moth
Large Milkweed Bug
Ligated Furrow Bee
Mining Bees
Odorous House Ant
Orange Sulphur
Oriental Beetle
Oriental Cockroach
Pale Beauty
Pearl Crescent
Rainbow Scarab
Rathke'S Woodlouse
Rosy Maple Moth
Royal River Cruiser
Rustic Borer
Shaded Fuzzy Ant
Short-winged Green Grasshopper
Silvery Checkerspot
Single-dotted Wave
Six-Spotted Fishing Spider
Skimming Bluet
Snowberry Clearwing
Spotted Apatelodes Moth
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Sycamore Tussock Moth
Transverse-banded Flower Fly
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle
Twice-Stabbed Stink Bug
Virginia Ctenucha Moth
Virginian Tiger Moth
Wandering Glider
Western Conifer Seed Bug
Wetland Giant Wolf Spider
White-marked Tussock Moth
Winnow Ant
Woodlouse Spider
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth
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