The Bug Guide http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740
It’s a USA based website of Insect enthusiasts who are building an identification base of pictures and descriptions of North American insects.
Now it will not always help those of us who do not live on the North American continent, but there are many insects that we share in common or are of the same groups to be often of help.
It has a clickable guide on the front page to help you search from, with drawings about the types of insect/s being searched for.
Unfortunately for us gardeners it stops there, and doesn’t then go on to describe whether on not they are good garden neighbours nor does it help in describing control measures. However as far as the site is orientated, which is as a method of describing and cataloguing insects, it would be a terrific assistance in starting to help in finding out what ‘bugs’ you.
So it is only a first step in assisting you in figuring out and naming what the ‘bug’ is that is living in your garden.
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This is one of my favourite site for garden bug and insects ID. The site members are very helpful and have helped me to identity my bugs for the 2 times I posted my bugs' pictures for ID request, even though I'm outside US and Canada!
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