 | Alphabetical list of common english names 566 names |
Alderflies → Sialidae
Ampulicid wasps → Ampulicidae
Ancestor of the domesticated honey bee and many bee breeds → Apis mellifera
Andrenid bees → Andrenidae
Animals → Animalia
Ant lion → Myrmeleon formicarius
Ant lions → Myrmeleontidae
Ant lions → Neuroptera
Ant lions and owlflies → Myrmeleontidae
Ant-lion → Myrmeleon formicarius
Ant-lions → Myrmeleontidae
Anthomyiid flies → Anthomyiidae
Antlion → Myrmeleon formicarius
Antlion larva → Myrmeleon formicarius
Antlions → Myrmeleon
Antlions → Myrmeleontidae
Ants → Formicidae
Ants bees and wasps → Hymenoptera
Aphid lion → Chrysoperla carnea
Aphid lions → Chrysopidae
Argentine ant → Linepithema humile
Argid flies → Argidae
Argid sawflies → Argidae
Armyrids → Ormyridae
Arthropods → Arthropoda
Awl-flies → Xylophagidae
Awlflies → Xylophagidae
Bald-seed gall causer → Andricus quercusramuli
Balloon flies → Acroceridae
Balloon flies → Empididae
Banana fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Bandet horntail → Ichneumon gigas
Barbut's cuckoo-bee → Bombus barbutellus
Barn fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Bee flies → Bombyliidae
Bees → Apis
Bees and bumble bees → Apidae
Big-headed ant → Pheidole megacephala
Big-headed flies → Pipunculidae
Bird flea → Dasypsyllus gallinulae
Biting horse-fly → Tabanus bovinus
Biting house fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Biting midges → Ceratopogonidae
Biting stable fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Bizzare caddisflies → Lepidostomatidae
Black ant → Lasius niger
Black flies → Simuliidae
Black garden ant → Lasius niger
Black scavenger flies → Sepsidae
Blasticotomid sawflies → Blasticotomidae
Blotch-winged hoverfly → Leucozona lucorum
Blow flies → Calliphoridae
Blow fly → Lucilia sericata
Blow meat → Calliphoridae
Blow-flies → Calliphoridae
Blowflies → Calliphoridae
Blue blow fly → Calliphora vicina
Blue blowfly → Calliphora vicina
Blue bottle fly → Calliphora vicina
Blue bottlefly → Calliphora vicina
Blue-arsed flies → Calliphoridae
Blue-bottles → Calliphoridae
Blueblottles → Calliphoridae
Bluebottle flies → Calliphoridae
Bombiles → Bombyliidae
Bot flies → Oestridae
Botflies → Oestridae
Bottle flies → Calliphora
Bottle flies → Calliphoridae
Bottleflies → Calliphoridae
Braconid wasps → Braconidae
Braconids → Braconidae
Breen lacewings → Chrysopidae
Brine flies → Ephydridae
Brown lacewings → Hemerobiidae
Buff-tailed bumblebee → Bombus terrestris
Buffalo gnats → Simuliidae
Bumble bees → Bombus
Bushtailed caddisflies → Sericostomatidae
Butterfly-lion → Libelloides longicornis
Caddisflies → Trichoptera
Carpenter bees → Xylocopa
Carrion flies → Calliphoridae
Caseless caddies-flies → Polycentropodidae
Cat and dog fleas → Ctenocephalides
Cat flea → Ctenocephalides felis
Ceratophyllid fleas → Ceratophyllidae
Chironimids → Chironomidae
Cicadakillers → Crabronidae
Cimbicid sawflies → Cimbicidae
Clattle-fly → Tabanus bovinus
Clegs → Tabanidae
Club-horned wasps → Sapygidae
Cluster fly → Pollenia rudis
Clusterflies → Calliphoridae
Colletid bees → Colletidae
Common banded hoverfly → Syrphus ribesii
Common black ant → Lasius niger
Common bluebottle → Calliphora vicina
Common cattle grub → Hypoderma lineatum
Common crane fly → Tipula oleracea
Common fleas → Pulicidae
Common flower fly → Syrphus ribesii
Common fruit fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Common green bottle fly → Lucilia sericata
Common green lacewing → Chrysoperla carnea
Common house fly → Musca domestica
Common house mosquito → Culex pipiens
Common housefly → Musca domestica
Common household mosquito → Culex pipiens
Common hoverfly → Syrphus ribesii
Common lacewings → Chrysopidae
Common red ant → Myrmica rubra
Common saw flies → Tenthredinidae
Common scorpionflies → Panorpidae
Common wasp → Vespula vulgaris
Conifer sawflies → Diprionidae
Conopids → Conopidae
Cool mosquitos → Culiseta
Cottonwool gall → Andricus quercusramuli
Cow killers → Mutillidae
Crane flies → Tipula
Crane flies → Tipulidae
Crane fly → Tipula oleracea
Crane-flies → Tipulidae
Craneflies → Tipulidae
Cranefly → Tipula oleracea
Cuckoo carpenter digger bumble and honey bees → Apidae
Cuckoo wasps → Chrysididae
Currant hoverfly → Syrphus ribesii
Cynipid gall wasps → Cynipidae
Daddy long legs → Tipula oleracea
Daddy long-legs → Tipulidae
Dagger flies → Empididae
Dance flies → Empididae
Dark-winged fungus gnats → Sciaridae
Deer flies → Tabanidae
Deer-flies → Tabanidae
Digger wasps → Sphecidae
Digger wasps sand wasps and mud daubers → Sphecidae
Dipteran → Diptera
Dirt daubers → Eumenidae
Dixid flies → Dixidae
Dog flea → Ctenocephalides canis
Dog fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Dolichopodid flies → Dolichopodidae
Doodlebug → Myrmeleon formicarius
Doodlebugs → Myrmeleontidae
Down-looker flies → Rhagionidae
Drain flies → Psychodidae
Dryomyzid flies → Dryomyzidae
Dump flies → Hydrotaea
Dung flies → Scathophagidae
Dung midges → Scatopsidae
Dung-flies → Scathophagidae
Dusty lacewings → Coniopterygidae
Emerald wasps → Chrysididae
Ensign flies → Sepsidae
Ensign wasps → Evaniidae
Euglossine → Apidae
European blowfly → Calliphora vicina
European blowfly → Lucilia sericata
European carpenter bee → Xylocopa violacea
European fire ant → Myrmica rubra
European honey bee → Apis mellifera
European hornet → Vespa crabro
European mantispid → Mantispa styriaca
European pit-building antlion → Euroleon nostras
European wasp → Vespula germanica
Face flies → Muscidae
Face fly → Musca autumnalis
Face-flies → Muscidae
False crane flies → Ptychopteridae
Fanniid flies → Fanniidae
Fever flies → Bibionidae
Field ants → Formica
Field cuckoo-bee → Bombus campestris
Finger-net caddisflies → Philopotamidae
Fingernet caddisflies → Philopotamidae
Flea → Pulex irritans
Fleas → Siphonaptera
Flies and midges → Diptera
Flower flies → Syrphidae
Flower wasps → Tiphiidae
Flowerfly → Episyrphus balteatus
Forest antlion → Myrmeleon formicarius
Four-spotted chrysopa → Chrysopa pallens
Free-living caddisflies → Rhyacophilidae
Frit flies → Chloropidae
Frit fly → Oscinella frit
Fruit flies → Drosophilidae
Fruit flies → Tephritidae
Fruit fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Fruit fly → Drosophilidae
Gadflies → Tabanidae
Gadfly → Tabanus bovinus
Gall gnats → Cecidomyiidae
Gall midges → Cecidomyiidae
Gall wasps → Cynipidae
Gallflies → Cynipidae
Gallinippers → Tipulidae
Garden bumblebee → Bombus hortorum
Garden flies → Bibionidae
Gasteruptiid wasps → Gasteruptiidae
Gasteruptiids → Gasteruptiidae
German wasp → Vespula germanica
German yellowjacket → Vespula germanica
Giant case-making caddisflies → Phryganeidae
Giant casemakers → Phryganeidae
Giant ichneumon → Ichneumon gigas
Giant lacewing → Osmylus fulvicephalus
Giant woodwasp → Ichneumon gigas
Gnat-like flies → Anisopodidae
Goerid caddisflies → Goeridae
Gold wasps → Chrysididae
Gollywhopper → Tipulidae
Grape flies → Drosophilidae
Grass flies → Chloropidae
Great lacewing → Chrysopa pallens
Great potter wasp → Delta unguiculatum
Greater horntail → Ichneumon gigas
Greater horntail wasp → Ichneumon gigas
Green blow-fly → Lucilia caesar
Green blowfly → Lucilia caesar
Green blowfly → Lucilia sericata
Green bottle flies → Lucilia
Green bottle fly → Lucilia caesar
Green bottle fly → Lucilia sericata
Green heads → Tabanus
Green lacewing → Chrysopa pallens
Green lacewing → Chrysopa perla
Green lacewing → Chrysoperla carnea
Green lacewings → Chrysoperla
Green lacewings → Chrysopidae
Green sedges → Rhyacophilidae
Green-bottle → Lucilia sericata
Green-bottle fly → Lucilia caesar
Green-bottles → Calliphoridae
Greenbottle → Lucilia caesar
Greenbottle flies → Calliphoridae
Greenbottle fly → Lucilia sericata
Greenbottles → Calliphoridae
Greenhead flies → Tabanus
Halictid bees → Halictidae
Hanging flies → Bittacidae
Hanging flies → Boreidae
Hanging scorpion fly → Bittacus italicus
Hanging scorpionflies → Bittacidae
Hangingflies → Bittacidae
Hangingflies → Mecoptera
Heleomyzid flies → Heleomyzidae
Hill cuckoo-bee → Bombus rupestris
Honey bee → Apis mellifera
Honey bees → Apis
Honey-bee → Apis mellifera
Honeybee → Apis mellifera
Honeybees → Apis
Hood casemakers → Molannidae
Horn flies → Muscidae
Hornet → Vespa crabro
Hornet robberfly → Asilus crabroniformis
Hornets → Vespa
Hornets → Vespidae
Horntail → Ichneumon gigas
Horntails → Siricidae
Horntails wasps → Siricidae
Horse and deer flies → Tabanidae
Horse ant → Formica rufa
Horse flies → Tabanidae
Horse flies and deer flies → Tabanidae
Horse fly → Tabanus bovinus
Horse-flies → Tabanidae
Horseflies → Tabanidae
Horseflies → Tabanus
Horsefly → Tabanus bovinus
Horsefly → Tabanus sudeticus
House flies → Muscidae
House fly → Musca domestica
House fly → Muscidae
House mosquito → Culex pipiens
Houseflies → Musca
Housefly → Musca domestica
Hover flies → Syrphidae
Hoverflies → Episyrphus
Hoverflies → Syrphidae
Hoverflies → Syrphus
Hoverfly → Episyrphus balteatus
Human flea → Pulex irritans
Human fleas → Pulex
Humming syrphus → Syrphus ribesii
Humpback flies → Acroceridae
Humpless casemaker caddisflies → Brachycentridae
Humpless casemakers → Brachycentridae
Hunchback-flies → Acroceridae
Hunter wasps → Sphecidae
Hydropsychid caddisflies → Hydropsychidae
Hydroptilid caddisflies → Hydroptilidae
Hyperoscelidid gnat → Scatopsidae
Hystrichopsillid fleas → Hystrichopsyllidae
Ichneumon flies → Ichneumonidae
Ichneumon wasp → Ichneumon suspiciosus
Ichneumon wasps → Ichneumon
Ichneumon wasps → Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonid wasps → Ichneumonidae
Ichneumons → Ichneumonidae
Inocelliid snakeflies → Inocelliidae
Insects → Insecta
Jewel wasps → Chrysididae
Jimmy spinners → Tipulidae
Keds → Hippoboscidae
Kelp-flies → Coelopidae
Lacewing → Chrysoperla carnea
Lacewings → Neuroptera
Lacewings and antlions → Neuroptera
Lance flies → Lonchaeidae
Lance lacewings → Osmylidae
Large caddisflies → Phryganeidae
Large carpenter bee → Xylocopa violacea
Large carpenter bees → Xylocopa
Large crane flies → Tipulidae
Large earth bumblebee → Bombus terrestris
Large european crane fly → Tipula oleracea
Lauxaniid flies → Lauxaniidae
Leaf cutters → Megachilidae
Leaf-cutters → Megachilidae
Leaf-cutting bees → Megachilidae
Leaf-miner flies → Agromyzidae
Leaf-mining flies → Agromyzidae
Leaf-rolling sawflies → Pamphiliidae
Leafcutter mason and resin bees → Megachilidae
Leafmining flies → Agromyzidae
Lepistomatid caddisflies → Lepidostomatidae
Lesser fruit fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Lesser house fly → Fannia canicularis
Lesser house-flies and latrine-flies → Fannia
Lesser house-fly → Fannia canicularis
Lesser houseflies → Fanniidae
Lesser housefly → Fannia canicularis
Leucospid wasps → Leucospidae
Leucospids → Leucospidae
Little brown-green sedges → Lepidostomatidae
Little house fly → Fannia canicularis
Little house-fly → Fannia canicularis
Little housefly → Fannia canicularis
Long legged flies → Dolichopodidae
Long-horn caddisflies → Leptoceridae
Long-horned caddis flies → Leptoceridae
Long-horned caddisflies → Leptoceridae
Long-horned casemakers → Leptoceridae
Long-legged flies → Dolichopodidae
Louse flies → Hippoboscidae
Mantid flies → Mantispidae
Mantid lacewings → Mantispidae
Mantidflies → Mantispidae
Mantisflies → Mantispidae
March flies → Bibionidae
March flies → Tabanus
Marchflies and love bugs → Bibionidae
Marmalade hover fly → Episyrphus balteatus
Marmalade hoverfly → Episyrphus balteatus
Marsh crane fly → Tipula oleracea
Marsh crane-fly → Tipula oleracea
Marsh flies → Sciomyzidae
Mason bees → Anthidium
Mason bees → Megachilidae
Mason bees → Osmia
Mason wasps → Eumenidae
Mellitid bees → Melittidae
Meniscus flies → Dixidae
Meniscus midges → Dixidae
Micro-caddisflies → Hydroptilidae
Microcaddisflies → Hydroptilidae
Midge → Culicoides
Midges → Chironomidae
Minute black scavenger flies → Scatopsidae
Molannid caddisflies → Molannidae
Mosquito → Culex pipiens
Mosquito eaters → Tipulidae
Mosquito hawks → Tipulidae
Mosquitoes → Culex
Mosquitoes → Culicidae
Mosquitos → Culex
Mosquitos → Culicidae
Mossies → Culicidae
Moth flies → Psychodidae
Mound ants → Formica
Mozzies → Culicidae
Muscid flies → Muscidae
Mutillid wasps → Mutillidae
Mydas flies → Mydidae
Nasal bot → Oestridae
Nematocerous flies → Anisopodidae
Net-spinning caddisflies → Hydropsychidae
Net-wing midges → Blephariceridae
Net-winged insects → Neuroptera
Net-winged midges → Blephariceridae
Netspinning caddisflies → Hydropsychidae
Neuropteran → Neuroptera
No-see-ums → Ceratopogonidae
Non-biting mitges → Chironomidae
Northern caddisflies → Limnephilidae
Northern house mosquito → Culex pipiens
Noseeums → Ceratopogonidae
Oak gall wasp → Andricus quercusramuli
Odontocerid caddisflies → Odontoceridae
Opomyzid flies → Opomyzidae
Owl-flies → Ascalaphidae
Owlflies → Ascalaphidae
Pale giant horse-fly → Tabanus bovinus
Pale giant horsefly → Tabanus bovinus
Panorpid scorpionflies → Panorpidae
Parasitic wasps → Pteromalidae
Perly green lacewing → Chrysopa perla
Phantom crane flies → Ptychopteridae
Phantom midges → Chaoboridae
Philopotamid caddisflies → Philopotamidae
Phorid flies → Phoridae
Phryganeid caddis flies → Phryganeidae
Picked fruit-flies → Drosophilidae
Pine sawflies → Diprionidae
Platystomatid flies → Platystomatidae
Pleasing lacewings → Dilaridae
Pointed wing flies → Lonchopteridae
Pointed-wing flies → Lonchopteridae
Pointy mosquitos → Aedes
Pollen wasps → Masaridae
Pomace flies → Drosophilidae
Pompilid wasps → Pompilidae
Potter wasps → Eumenidae
Potter wasps → Vespidae
Power mower fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Predatory fungus gnats → Keroplatidae
Primitive caddisflies → Rhyacophilidae
Pteromalid wasps → Pteromalidae
Pulicid fleas → Pulicidae
Punkies → Ceratopogonidae
Purse casemaker flies → Hydroptilidae
Purse casemakers → Hydroptilidae
Raphiid snakeflies → Raphidiidae
Red mason bee → Osmia rufa
Red stinging ant → Myrmica rubra
Red tailed bumblebee → Bombus lapidarius
Red wood ant → Formica rufa
Red-eyed pomace fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Red-tailed bumble bee → Bombus lapidarius
Red-tailed bumblebee → Bombus lapidarius
Rhyacophiloid caddisflies → Rhyacophilidae
Ribbon-tailed lacewing → Nemoptera bipennis
Robber flies → Asilidae
Rodent fleas → Ceratophyllidae
Root-maggot flies → Anthomyiidae
Root-maggots → Anthomyiidae
Rust flies → Psilidae
Sand flies → Ceratopogonidae
Sand flies → Psychodidae
Sapygid wasps → Sapygidae
Saw flies → Tenthredinidae
Sawflies → Xyelidae
Scoliid wasps → Scoliidae
Scorpion flies → Mecoptera
Scorpionflies → Mecoptera
Scuttle flies → Phoridae
Seaweed flies → Coelopidae
Sericostomatid caddisflies → Sericostomatidae
Sheep blow-fly → Lucilia sericata
Sheep blowfly → Lucilia sericata
Sheep fly → Lucilia sericata
Shore flies → Ephydridae
Signal flies → Platystomatidae
Skeeter eaters → Tipulidae
Skeeters → Culicidae
Small carpenter bees → Ceratina
Small fruit flies → Drosophilidae
Small fruit fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Small garden bumblebee → Bombus hortorum
Small-headed flies → Acroceridae
Snail-killing flies → Sciomyzidae
Snake fly → Phaeostigma notatum
Snipe flies → Rhagionidae
Snow flea → Boreus hyemalis
Snow fly → Boreus hyemalis
Snow scorpionflies → Boreidae
Snow scorpionfly → Boreus hyemalis
Snowflea → Boreus hyemalis
Social wasps → Vespula
Soldier flies → Stratiomyidae
Sour fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Southern wood ant → Formica rufa
Spider flies → Acroceridae
Spider wasps → Pompilidae
Spider-hunting wasps → Pompilidae
Spider-parasite flies → Acroceridae
Sponge fly → Sisyra nigra
Spongeflies → Sisyridae
Spongillaflies → Sisyridae
Spongillafly → Sisyra nigra
St. Mark's flies → Bibionidae
Stable flies → Muscidae
Stable flies → Stomoxys
Stable fly → Stomoxys calcitrans
Stable-flies → Muscidae
Stem sawflies → Cephidae
Stiletto flies → Therevidae
Stilt-legged flies → Micropezidae
Styrian praying lacewing → Mantispa styriaca
Suffolk ant-lion → Euroleon nostras
Suffolk antlion → Euroleon nostras
Syrphid flies → Syrphidae
Tachinid flies → Tachinidae
Tangle-veined flies → Nemestrinidae
Tawny mining bee → Andrena fulva
That-mound ant → Formica rufa
Thathing ants → Formica
Thick-headed flies → Conopidae
Thread lacewing → Nemoptera bipennis
Thread-waisted wasps → Sphecidae
Thread-wasted wasps → Ammophila
Thread-winged antlions → Nemopteridae
Tiphiid wasps → Tiphiidae
Torymid wasps → Torymidae
True flies → Diptera
Trumpet-net and tube-making caddisflies → Polycentropodidae
Trumpet-net caddisflies → Psychomyiidae
Tube-net caddisflies → Psychomyiidae
Turkey gnats → Simuliidae
Turnip maggot → Delia floralis
Two-winged flies → Diptera
Velvet ants → Mutillidae
Vespid wasps → Vespidae
Vinegar flies → Drosophila
Vinegar flies → Drosophilidae
Vinegar fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Violet carpenter bee → Xylocopa violacea
Warble flies → Oestridae
Wasp flies → Conopidae
Wasp mimic flies → Conopidae
Wasp mimics → Mantispidae
Wasps → Vespidae
Water snipe flies → Athericidae
Web-spinning sawflies → Pamphiliidae
Western honey bee → Apis mellifera
White socks → Simuliidae
Window flies → Scenopinidae
Wine flies → Drosophilidae
Wine fly → Drosophila melanogaster
Winter crane flies → Trichoceridae
Winter gnats → Trichoceridae
Wood ants → Formica
Wood gnats → Anisopodidae
Wood mound and field ants → Formica
Wood soldier flies → Xylomyidae
Wood wasps → Siricidae
Wood wasps → Xiphydriidae
Wood-gnats → Anisopodidae
Xiphydriid wood wasps → Xiphydriidae
Xyelid sawflies → Xyelidae
Xylophagid flies → Xylophagidae
Yellojackets hornets and paper wasps → Vespidae
Yellow jacket → Vespula vulgaris
Yellow jackets → Vespula
Yellow-and-black winged dragonfly-like insect → Libelloides longicornis
Yellow-horned horntail → Ichneumon gigas
Yellowfever mosquito → Aedes aegypti
Yellowjackets → Vespula
Zims → Tabanidae
Alphabetical list of common english names