I photograph bugs using a Belomo loupe held up to my iPhone camera.
If you recognize an unidentified or misidentified bug, enlighten me.
araneae
bold jumping spider
flower crab spider
Looks like Misumena vatia.
Theridon murarium
lycosidae (wolf spiders)
Some kind of wolf spider. Pictured next to a 0.7mm mechanical pencil.
zebra jumping spider
tiny orange spider
Tiny Beast, Unaligned. I found this crawling in my Monster Manual during D&D.
insecta
dermaptera
european earwig
diptera
drain fly
hemiptera
red-banded leafhopper
red-legged grasshopper
water strider
NOPE. I could not get my loupe near them. They are so fast and so cautious and have such good eyesight.
hymenoptera
common eastern bumble bee
metallic green sweat bee
Augochlori, I think.
formicidae
Some kind of ant. I don't know ants.
lepidoptera
common buckeye
skipper
tiger moth
This angelic moth would crawl under my sleeve to shelter from the breeze.
? unknown orange-dotted butterfly
I did not take any less-magnified photos of this specimen, so I'm not sure what species it is. Maybe a black swallowtail, but do those have these orange dots? I only see pictures of them with yellow dots, not orange ones.
? another unknown butterfly
Not sure about this one either.
odonata
Argia (dancers)
I misidentified these as bluets, but a person called upskuttle informed me otherwise. Dancers and bluets can be differentiated by how they hold their wings. Dancers (Argia) hold their wings up over their abdomen while bluets (Enallagma) hold them alongside the abdomen.
psocoptera
booklouse
isopoda
Porcellio spinicornis
Porcellio spinicornis exuvia
Exuvia (shed exoskeleton) of Porcellio spinicornis. Isopods shed in halves, changing their "shirt" and "pants" separately.
myriapoda
chilopoda
house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
diplopoda
parajulidae
I found this one inside a commercial building on a rainy day. When I tried catching it in a cup, I accidentally spilled a stray drop of milk on the floor, which the millipede drank. I thus named it Milky.
I found Milky before getting my loupe, so these shots are less magnified than most others on this page.