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Itasca State Park Biodiversity

A guide to the Biota of Itasca State Park, Minnesota

compiled by Janet Rith-Najarian

Half-black Bumble Bee 1
Bombus vagans
Western Honey Bee 2
Apis mellifera
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant 3
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle 4
Anatis labiculata
Asian Lady Beetle 5
Harmonia axyridis
Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle 6
Chilocorus stigma
Winter Firefly 7
Ellychnia corrusca
End Band Net-winged Beetle 7
Calopteron terminale
American Carrion Beetle 8
Necrophila americana
Widow Skimmer 9
Libellula luctuosa
Four-spotted Chaser 10
Libellula quadrimaculata
Calico Pennant 11
Celithemis elisa
Variegated Meadowhawk 12
Sympetrum corruptum
White-faced Meadowhawk 13
Sympetrum obtrusum
Band-winged Meadowhawk 14
Sympetrum semicinctum
Chalk-fronted Corporal 15
Ladona julia
Blue Dasher 15
Pachydiplax longipennis
Common Whitetail 16
Plathemis lydia
Horned Clubtail
Arigomphus cornutus
Lilypad Clubtail 15
Arigomphus furcifer
Common Green Darner 17
Anax junius
American Emerald 18
Cordulia shurtleffii
Tule Bluet 19
Enallagma carunculatum
Eastern Forktail 19
Ischnura verticalis
River Jewelwing 20
Calopteryx aequabilis
Spotted Spreadwing 14
Lestes congener
Eastern Calligrapher 21
Toxomerus geminatus
Yellow-shouldered Drone Fly 19
Eristalis stipator

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