insect.id
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Identifies insects, spiders and other invertebrates from photos, with danger, taxonomy and multilingual names.
Example request
curl -s -H "Api-Key: $API_KEY" 'https://insect.kindwise.com/api/v1/kb/insect/name_search?q=Lucanus'
Free tier, in plain English
Registering gives 100 free identification credits to test with. After that you buy prepaid credit packs, from €0.05 per identification down to €0.01 at high volume.
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