Insects are not difficult to see in Florida – they usually find you, but once you get past the unwanted mosquitoes and deer flies there is a dazzling abundance of insect life in this tropical state. Gloriously colored butterflies and huge tropical moths can be seen almost year around, and exotic-looking walking sticks and giant orange grasshoppers are easy to find. There are a few insects to be careful of but they are easy to avoid.

• Butterflies and Moths
  Monarch

       Luna Moth

      Oleander Moth

       Tent Caterpillar

       Crowned Caterpillar

       Mangrove Buckeye

       Palamedes Swallowtail

• Grasshoppers, mantids and Katydids
  Eastern Lubber Grasshopper

• Cicadas

• Roaches
  Cuban Green Cockroach
  Palmetto Bug
  American Cockroach
  German Cockroach
  Hissing Cockroach
  

• Beetles
  Rhinocerous Beetle
  Hercules Beetle
  Click Beetle
  Tiger Beetle
  Ladybug
  Dung Beetle

• Bees

       Bumblebee

       Carpenter Bee

• Ants and Wasps
  Paper Wasp
  Velvet Ant
  Mub Dauber
  Yellow Jacket
  Scoliid Wasp
  
  

• Lovebugs

       Lovebugs

• Chiggers

       Chiggers

• Ticks
  Deer Tick
  American Dog Tick
  Lonestar Tick
  Brown Dog Tick
  

• Ants
  Fire Ant
  Tree Ant
  Sugar Ant
  Leaf Cutter Ant
  Florida Carpenter Ant
  White Footed Ant
  

• Spiders
  Golden Silk Spider
  Wolf Spider
  Black Widow Spider
  Brown Recluse Spider
  Huntsman Spider
  Spiny Orbweaver Spider
  Black and White Argiope (Orb Weaver)
  Green Lynx Spider
  Jumping Spiders
  Fishing Spider

• Scorpions
  Florida Striped Scorpion
  Florida Bark Scorpion
  Scorpion
  

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