Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
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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
1,758
Species
208
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.
Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
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(c) Martin Kalfatovic, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
Photo attribution
(c) Martin Kalfatovic, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
Photo attribution
(c) Martin Kalfatovic, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
Photo attribution
(c) Martin Kalfatovic, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
Jun 20, 2026
Cleveland Parki
Photo attribution
(c) Martin Kalfatovic, some rights reserved (CC BY)
License: CC BY 4.0 ↗
Image may be shown cropped inside the card frame.
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
372 snaps
Asian Lady Beetle
262 snaps
Monarch Butterfly
228 snaps
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Spotted Lanternfly
96 snaps
Bee
57 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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Park44 sightings50 species
Virginia, US
Leewood Park
You might spot Lesser Celandine, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, and Mayapple.
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Park48 sightings50 species
Virginia, US
Burke Lake Park
You might spot Great Blue Heron and Canada Goose.
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Park44 sightings50 species
Virginia, US
Lake Fairfax Park
You might spot White-Tailed Deer and Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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Park35 sightings50 species
Virginia, US
Garland Hill Historic District
You might spot Asian Lady Beetle, Spotted Lanternfly, and Christmas Fern.
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Park44 sightings50 species
Virginia, US
Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park
You might spot White-Tailed Deer and House Sparrow.
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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
Spotted Lanternfly
Bee
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Zebra Swallowtail
Common Whitetail
Luna Moth
Japanese Beetle
Black Swallowtail
Margined Leatherwing Beetle
Silver-spotted Skipper
Widow Skimmer
Great Spangled Fritillary
Common Buckeye
Bald-faced Hornet
Isabella Tiger Moth
Ebony Jewelwing
Admiral Butterfly
North American Wheel Bug
Polyphemus Moth
Blue Dasher
Bold Jumping Spider
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Horned Passalid
American Lady
Cabbage White
Coppery Leafhopper
Dark Fishing Spider
Eastern Pondhawk
Magnolia Green Jumping Spider
Red Admiral
Spicebush Swallowtail
Swamp Milkweed Leaf Beetle
Tan Jumping Spider
Variable Dancer
Zabulon Skipper
American Carrion Beetle
Blue-fronted Dancer
Eastern Boxelder Bug
Eastern Carpenter Bee
Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
Carolina Mantis
Common Eastern Bumble Bee
Eastern Amberwing
Eight-spotted Forester Moth
False Milkweed Bug
Golden-backed Snipe Fly
Pale Green Assassin Bug
Red Milkweed Beetle
Red-banded Leafhopper
Versute Sharpshooter
Blue-tipped Dancer
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant
Eastern Calligrapher
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Giant Leopard Moth
Large Lace-Border Moth
Orchard Orbweaver
Oriental Beetle
Powdered Dancer
Question Mark
Tulip-tree Beauty
American Nursery Web Spider
Common Micropanther
Common Picture-winged Fly
Common Pill Woodlouse
Dark Flower Scarab
Eastern Yellowjacket
Hackberry Emperor
House Centipede
Io Moth
Lone Star Tick
Oleander Aphid
Silvery Checkerspot
Slaty Skimmer
Spotted Cucumber Beetle
Virginia Creeper Sphinx
Yellow Poplar Weevil
Ailanthus Webworm Moth
American Dog Tick
American Rubyspot
Atlantic Ghost Crab
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Black Widow
Blinded Sphinx
Blue Corporal
Broad-Winged Skipper
Bronzed Tiger Beetle
Brown Rove Beetle
Calico Pennant
Chestnut Carpenter Ant
Chinese Mantis
Citrus Flatid Planthopper
Common Blue Mud-Dauber Wasp
Delicate Cycnia Moth
Dobsonfly
Eastern Comma
Eastern Ringtail
Eurasian Drone Fly
Firefly
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth
Gray Hairstreak
Green Cloverworm Moth
Halloween Pennant
Hickory Tussock Moth
Jewel Beetle
Large Maple Spanworm Moth
Large Milkweed Bug
Leopard Slug
Little Wood Satyr
Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Magnificent Bryozoan
Margined Calligrapher
Mourning Cloak
Northern Pearly-eye
Odorous House Ant
Pearl Crescent
Periodical Cicadas
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
Small Milkweed Bug
Southern Yellowjacket
Spring Fishfly
Transverse-banded Flower Fly
Twelve-spotted Skimmer
Wool Sower Gall Wasp
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth
Acanthocephala terminalis
American Cockroach
Angulose Prominent And Allies
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Band-winged Meadowhawk
Banded Tussock Moth
Bearded Carpenter ant
Big Bluet
Black-And-Gold Flat Millipede
Blue Crab
Broad-headed Sharpshooter
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Canadian Petrophila
Celery Leaftier Moth
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
European Hornet
Evergreen Bagworm Moth
False Leptura Beetle
Fiery Skipper
Four-lined Plant Bug
Fragile Forktail
Goldenrod Soldier Beetle
Great Black Digger Wasp
Great Blue Skimmer
Great Golden Digger Wasp
Greater Bee Fly
Guinea Paper Wasp
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Juvenal's Duskywing
Keeled Treehopper
Ladybug
Lichen-carrying Green Lacewing
Mnemiopsis leidyi
North American Common Water Strider
Northern Paper Wasp
Ocola Skipper
Orange Sulphur
Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth
Painted Lady
Painted Lichen Moth
Pale Beauty
Pipevine Swallowtail
Promethea Silkmoth
Red Imported Fire Ant
Rosy Maple Moth
Round Bullet Gall Wasp
Rustic Borer
Salt Marsh Moth
Salt Marsh Skipper
Sculptured Resin Bee
Seaside Dragonlet
Slender Bluet
Smokybrown Cockroach
Spotted Apatelodes Moth
Spotted Orbweavers
Striped Cucumber Beetle
Summer Fishfly
Tawny Emperor
Thick-Legged Hover Fly
Tulip-tree Silkmoth
Two-Lined Spittlebug
Two-spotted Bumble Bee
Viceroy
Virginian Tiger Moth
Waved Sphinx
White-lined Sphinx
White-marked Tussock Moth
Witch-Hazel Cone Gall Aphid
Yellow Garden Spider
Yellow-striped Leafhopper
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