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Is there a website that lists common names of different insect species?

There's supposed to be all these insect species, but Wikipedia only lists a couple per insect type. Is there a good web site that lists a bunch of them? I'm just curious... I'm mainly interested in butterflies, ants, and mantids. My mom and I started to list all the species we know over my spring break, and now we've moved on to researching obscure species. Did you know caribou ate mice and that meerkats will kill another couples kits if they look cooler than their kits?

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1. I'm not sure of any that will exactly suit your needs but I found this really cool site several months ago where you can send a picture of a bug and the team will identify it for you. It might not give you the answers you are looking for but it is a lot of fun!
2. A lot of insect species don't have a common name at all. Entomologists usually prefer the more precise scientific names, and no one else really cares. I don't know of any sites that list all of the common names for every species that has one. Even though only a small minority of species have a common name, those that do still make up a HUGE number. Usually, most sites will have a specific focus on different types of insects: such as crop pest, or forest pests, or butterflies of a certain region, or large and interesting bugs found in a specific park, or something along those lines. Is there any particular group of insects you're interested in?