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Metallic wood-boring beetles (Family Buprestidae)

Compact beetles with short legs and “saw-toothed” antennae

1. Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire

2. Honeysuckle borer, Agrilus cyanescens Ratzeburg

3. Bronze birch borer, Agrilus anxius Gory

4. Green metallic woodborer, Buprestis confluenta Say

Click beetles (Family Elateridae)

Beetles with a flexible joint between thorax and abdomen

5. Green click beetle, Ctenicera species

Weevils (Family Curculionidae)

Beetles with a “snout” and elbowed antennae

6. Green Polydrusus weevil, Polydrusus species

Ground beetles (Family Carabidae)

Long-legged, agile beetles with long antennae

7. Calleida beetle, Calleida species

8. Six-spotted tiger beetle, Cicindela sexguttata Fabricius

9. Green pubescent ground beetle, Chlaenius sericeus Forster

Blister beetles (Family Meloidae)

Soft-winged beetles with head narrowed behind eyes

10. Nuttall blister beetle, Lytta nuttalli Say

Scarab beetles (Family Scarabaeidae)

Beetles with lopsided antennal club and flattened front legs

11. Green-marked chafer Dolichonyx subvittatus Capiomont

Leaf beetles (Family Chrysomelidae)

Oval beetles with long antennae

12. Dogbane beetle, Chrysochus auratus (Fabricius)

13. Northern corn rootworm beetle Diabrotica barberi Smith & Lawrence

Other Insects

Front wings at least partially membranous

14. Green stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

15. Blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

16. Cuckoo wasp (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae)

17. Sweat bee (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

18. Annual cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadidae)

Printing is being supported by the Great Plains Diagnostic Network grant from a subcontract under the USDA-NIFA.

EAB photo: Bugwood.org
All other photos: Gerald M. Fauske, NDSU

Revised May 2018