yellow beetle black dots (Cottonwood borer)

by Taylor Stephenson
(Wyandotte Ok, USA)

Yellow beetle looking thing with black dots and very long antennas

Yellow Furry winged insect (Bee Fly)

by Jeremy
(Victoria, Texas USA)

Small,furry,legs like a spider,wings like a bee, and what looks like something to collect pollen at the tip of the mouth.

small caterpillar yellow and black (Spotted Tussock Moth larva)

by paul
(glasgow, scotland)

small caterpillar like creature with mostly yellow fur. each end has black fur with white whiskers coming out of it. the yellow body has a black line down it. seen it in stanley park in vancouver.

yellowish, red marks on back (Two-spotted tree cricket)

by Amanda Sibert
(Cedar Rapids Iowa)

This insect was found by a pond in front of my highschool. I need help to identify it for my biology project. I was thinking it might have been a grasshopper, but i cant seem to find one that resembles it. It was crawling on one of the people in my group that was standing "near" the pond. I live in Cedar Rapids Iowa. It is Yellow with what seem to be red diamonds along the back. Can you please help me identify it?

Cross of Yellow/Orange -7mm (Euonymus Leaf Notcher)

Flying insect that is yellow to orange in color with black in tail. Fuzzy. ~7mm in length. Flies around evergreen bush and other bushes. Clings to side of house and windows. Second time we've had them in the Fall in Baltimore, MD area.

yellow brown fly (Golden Dung Fly)

by Scott Young
(Ontario Canada)

about 1 cm. in length quite common in our garden found on this dead nettle. It landed, but seemed to go from plant to plant in the area not favouring any one type.

Flying Yellow and Black Bug at butterfly bush (Snowberry Clearwing moth)

by Lloyd Bloom
(Ann Arbor, MI)

To me, this looks like a cross between a butterfly, a bee, and a hummingbird. It has a proboscis that curls up like a butterfly's (not shown in the pictures). I think it has 6 legs, but only 2 look articulated like a bee's. And, it hovers like a hummingbird, never coming to rest. The bug is about 2" long. First time I've seen anything like it. I have not seen one this summer, just last summer.

I live in Ann Arbor, MI. This was taken in August of 2009. The plant is a butterfly bush.

Sure would love your help in ID'ing this.

Thanks,

lloyd

Long yellow insect, black spots (Goldenrod soldier beetle)

by Dawn
(Richmond, VA)

Each autumn my cockscomb plumes are covered with these insects mating for a couple of weeks. There doesn't seem to be any damage to the plants and they don't sting people. They have an elongated shape, yellow with black spots.

Yellow with spikes (Squash lady beetle )

by Donna
(Talking Rock, GA)

Yellow approx. 1 cm. with spines all over. It was eating my squash and gourd vines.