Alice King conducted a personal field trip in her yard and house in Hunt, Texas in April 2021 to identify and observe various insects and invertebrates. She saw and photographed dragonflies, grasshoppers, crickets, butterflies, moths, flies, true bugs, beetles, bees, wasps, ants and other arthropods. The field trip helped her learn to identify different species using online identification tools. She noticed a variety of insects including ladybugs, caterpillars, beetles, spiders and unknown bugs.

1. Alice King Personal Field Trip
Where: my yard and house in Hunt
What: notice and [try to] identify insects and other invertebrates of
interest
When: several weeks in April of 2021
Why: …..

2. Why do we care?
Kim Lohmeyer presentation
Food
Pollinators
Decomposition
Seed Dispersal
Population Control
Also, they have Cool Super
Powers!

3. • Identification Tools
Insectidentification.org
• TAMU online Field Guide to
Common Texas Insects

4. Types
• Dragonflies – saw but no pictures
• Mantids – not seen during field trip; but have seen in past
• Grasshoppers/Crickets – differential grasshopper, cricket, katydid
• Butterflies/Moths
• [Mayfly Emphemoptera ]
• Flies
• True Bugs
• Beetles
• Bees/Wasps/ Ants
• [Termite/Isopetera]
Bonus pics of Arthopods

5. Grasshopper
On garden lettuce; I think this is a
young differential grasshopper
Difference between grasshoppers
and crickets? They are in the the
same “Order” but common
naming seems to be that
grasshoppers are more brightly
colored.

6. Another
grasshopper. Can
you see it?
I think this is also a differential
grasshopper just looks more
brown on the brown leaf?

7. Cricket
• Maybe a field cricket

8. Butterflies/Moths
The type where I saw the most
different kinds; saw many more
than I have pictures of including
[probable] viceroy, unidentified
small yellow flyer, unidentified
small white flyer

9. • Maybe a Forest Tent Caterpillar
Moth (Seek app)

10. • Green caterpillar

11. Video of bug

12. ???? ????
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

13. • Maybe a “dotted gray” moth
(insectfinder.org)

14. • moth

15. • Swallowtail

16. • Big yellow butterfly that I cannot
identify!!! Flies like a Monarch but
wrong color…

17. Monarch
Caterpillar

18. Is this a
Mayfly?
Different Order than butterflies
and moths (Ephemeroptera)

19. Fly
• This is a fly

20. Fly

21. Tiny bugs on Sotol
100’s of them; size of a pin head. Speedy.
Maybe Hesperolabops gelastop
(Source: https://citybugs.tamu.edu/files/2018/09/Managing-insect-
pests-of-cacti-B6215.pdf)
This Sotol is in a garden bed next to my
house. In prior years when I have
watered around it with the hose lots of
small insects start to jump, making really
loud snaps considering their size.
I think these just hatched. So maybe
these are the babies of the ones I have
seen before.

22. Spittle bug eggs

23. Sitting on
notebook paper
in my house
I think this is a true bug because it
has the right number of segments
and legs and I don’t know what
else it could be. But I have not
been able to find out anything
about what it might be.

24. • This bug looks cool

25. ???? ????
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

26. • Beetle/ant?

27. Lady Bug
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

28. • Rolly poli I don’t know how to
spell that

29. • I don’t like this bug

30. Lady bug

31. • Beetle that Anna found

32. • Bug near mud

33. • Ant

34. • Bug eggs?

35. ???? ????
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

36. ???? ????
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

37. Hummingbird
Bug

38. ???? ????
• Lady Bug Facts
• This is a lady bug
• It was in my yard
• It is red
• It is on some grass
• Lady bugs are good luck
• This lady bug has three spots

39. Seen on
Personal Field Trip
Got a Picture Seen on Property But Not on Personal
Field Trip
Dragonflies No n/a Yes
Mantids No n/a Yes (praying mantid, walking stick)
Grasshoppers/Crickets Yes: tree cricket? Yes
Butterflies/Moths Yes: swallowtail; big yellow one; tiny white
ones; tiny brownish ones; viceroy?;
caterpillar on jeans; little caterpillers in
trees
Flies Yes: house fly; robber fly(?)
True Bugs Yes: ?? are ants true bugs? 3 or 4 kinds Yes
Beetles Yes: lady bug; June beetle
Bees/Wasps Yes; native bee
Unknown Hatch on the cactus
Arthropods Yes Yes Yes – scorpion; millipedes, centipedes
Personal Field Trip March ?? – April 30th

40. • Small spider

41. • Small spider but looks scarier
than last small spider!

42. • Spider

43. • Bug den?

44. • Bug slime

45. • Bug slime