May 30, 2026
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Bugs Guide
Bugs Guide for Virginia
Mountains, wetlands, forests, and coastal habitats
Bug highlights, common sightings, and the best places to look for bugs in Virginia. Use the highlight list to start quickly, then work through the full guide for a broader local view.
Sightings
1,433
Species
164
Active Months
12
Category Overview
Bugs across Virginia
This guide focuses on butterflies, bees, beetles, and other small species within Virginia's wider region guide, making local walks, gardens, and close-up exploring feel richer.
Latest Sightings
Recent insect sightings in Virginia
A recent look at insect sightings across Virginia.
May 27, 2026
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May 25, 2026
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May 25, 2026
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Sightings Map
See where insect sightings cluster
Start wide, then zoom in to see where insect sightings cluster across Virginia.
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Top Highlights
Top 5 bugs to look for in Virginia
These bugs are snapped the most across this region.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
362 snaps
Asian Lady Beetle
252 snaps
Monarch Butterfly
224 snaps
Bee
53 snaps
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Spotted Lanternfly
32 snaps
Places to Start
Best places for bugs in Virginia
These place guides connect well with the bugs covered in this region.
Park87 sightings11 species
Virginia, US
Runnymede Park
You might spot Asian Lady Beetle and Bluegrass Webworm Moth.
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Park90 sightings14 species
Virginia, US
Leewood Park
You might spot Asian Lady Beetle, Monarch, and Oriental Bittersweet.
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Park56 sightings12 species
Virginia, US
Wildwood Park and Trail
You might spot White-Tailed Deer and Common Eastern Bumble Bee.
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Park78 sightings10 species
Virginia, US
Chalet Woods Park
You might spot Italian Arum, Common Mugwort, and Japanese Barberry.
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Park124 sightings17 species
Virginia, US
Lake Fairfax Park
You might spot Duck, Wood Duck, and Chlorosplenium Chlora.
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Park82 sightings7 species
Virginia, US
Potomac Hills Park
You might spot Eastern Blacknose Dace and Common Jewelweed.
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Full Guide
Full Virginia bugs list
The complete ranked list for this guide, ordered by sightings count.
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Asian Lady Beetle
Monarch Butterfly
Bee
Spotted Lanternfly
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Luna Moth
Black Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail
Widow Skimmer
Common Buckeye
Great Spangled Fritillary
Bald-faced Hornet
Common Whitetail
Japanese Beetle
Polyphemus Moth
Isabella Tiger Moth
Margined Leatherwing Beetle
Silver-spotted Skipper
American Lady
Bold Jumping Spider
Red Admiral
Admiral Butterfly
Blue Dasher
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Dark Fishing Spider
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Eastern Pondhawk
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
North American Wheel Bug
Red-banded Leafhopper
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Tan Jumping Spider
Zabulon Skipper
Carolina Mantis
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Ebony Jewelwing
Golden-backed Snipe Fly
Horned Passalid
Large Lace-Border Moth
Magnolia Green Jumping Spider
Orchard Orbweaver
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Variable Dancer
American Nursery Web Spider
Common Micropanther
Common Picture-winged Fly
Coppery Leafhopper
Dark Flower Scarab
Eastern Amberwing
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Eastern Tailed-Blue
False Milkweed Bug
Hackberry Emperor
Question Mark
Silvery Checkerspot
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Tulip-tree Beauty
Ailanthus Webworm Moth
American Carrion Beetle
Black Widow
Blue Corporal
Blue-fronted Dancer
Brown Rove Beetle
Calico Pennant
Chinese Mantis
Common Blue Mud-Dauber Wasp
Common Pill Woodlouse
Delicate Cycnia Moth
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Calligrapher
Eastern Yellowjacket
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Hickory Tussock Moth
House Centipede
Jewel Beetle
Lone Star Tick
Margined Calligrapher
Mourning Cloak
Odorous House Ant
Pearl Crescent
Periodical Cicadas
Powdered Dancer
Red Milkweed Beetle
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Small Milkweed Bug
Spring Fishfly
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Yellow Poplar Weevil
Acanthocephala terminalis
American Cockroach
American Dog Tick
American Rubyspot
Banded Tussock Moth
Bearded Carpenter ant
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Big Bluet
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Blinded Sphinx
Blue Crab
Broad-headed Sharpshooter
Bronzed Tiger Beetle
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Canadian Petrophila
Clouded Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Common Drone Fly
Common Green June Beetle
Common Rough Woodlouse
Diversibipalium Multilineatum
Double-striped Bluet
Eastern Buck Moth
Eastern Hercules Beetle
End Band Net-winged Beetle
Eurasian Drone Fly
Evergreen Bagworm Moth
False Leptura Beetle
Firefly
Four-lined Plant Bug
Fragile Forktail
Giant Leopard Moth
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle
Gray Hairstreak
Greater Bee Fly
Green Cloverworm Moth
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Io Moth
Juvenal's Duskywing
Keeled Treehopper
Lichen-carrying Green Lacewing
Little Wood Satyr
Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Magnificent Bryozoan
Mnemiopsis leidyi
Ocola Skipper
Orange Sulphur
Oriental Beetle
Painted Lady
Pale Beauty
Pipevine Swallowtail
Promethea Silkmoth
Rosy Maple Moth
Round Bullet Gall Wasp
Salt Marsh Moth
Salt Marsh Skipper
Seaside Dragonlet
Smokybrown Cockroach
Summer Fishfly
Two-Lined Spittlebug
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Versute Sharpshooter
Virginian Tiger Moth
Waved Sphinx
White-lined Sphinx
White-marked Tussock Moth
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth
Yellow-striped Leafhopper
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