Field Guide to Spark Invertebrates

One of three guides to Spark (the others cover Spark vertebrates, and Spark plants & fungi)

Discover the diverse and beautiful species that make their home in Spark. Please note that this is private property, and permission is needed to explore here.

Species in the guide are ...more ↓

All 393

Chrysidini ¹

Hedychrum ²

Tiphiinae

Thread-waisted Sand Wasps ³
Ammophila

Cutworm Wasps ⁴
Podalonia

Great Golden Digger Wasp ⁵
Sphex ichneumoneus

Eucerceris provancheri

Beewolves ⁶
Philanthus

Sand Wasps ⁷
Bembicini

Stictiellina ⁸

Steniolia ⁸

Astata ⁹

Masked Bees ¹⁰
Hylaeus

Digger Bees ¹¹
Anthophorini

Urbane Digger Bee ¹²
Anthophora urbana

California Cuckoo Bee ¹³
Xeromelecta californica

Crotch's Bumble Bee ¹⁴
Bombus crotchii

Black-tailed Bumble Bee ⁷
Bombus melanopygus

Van Dyke's Bumble Bee
Bombus vandykei

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee ¹⁵
Bombus vosnesenskii

Pterocheilus ¹⁶

California Bumble Bee ¹⁷
Bombus californicus

Western Honey Bee ¹⁸
Apis mellifera

Zadontomerus ¹⁹

Xylocopa tabaniformis orpifex ²⁰

Nomad Bees ²¹
Nomada

Halictinae ²²

Peridot Bee
Augochlorella pomoniella

Striped Sweat Bees ²³
Agapostemon

Agapostemon ²⁴

Blood Bees ²⁵
Sphecodes

Seladonia ²⁶

Tripartite Sweat Bee ²⁷
Halictus tripartitus

Wide-striped Sweat Bee
Halictus farinosus

Metallic Sweat Bees ²⁸
Dialictus

Osmiini ²⁹

Ashmeadiella ³⁰

Mason Bees ³¹
Osmia

Melanosmia ³²

Prong-faced Slender-Mason ³³
Protosmia rubifloris

Stelis

Anthidium

Dianthidium ³⁴

Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bees ³⁵
Coelioxys

Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees ³⁶
Megachile

Nearctic resin bees ³⁷
Chelostomoides

Sayapis ³⁸

Silver-tailed Petalcutter Bee ³⁹
Megachile montivaga

Panurginus ⁴⁰

Andrena ⁴¹

Melandrena ⁴²

Spider Wasps ⁴³
Pompilidae

Formicine Ants ⁴⁴
Formicinae

Velvety Tree Ant ⁴⁵
Liometopum occidentale

Carpenter and Sugar Ants ⁴⁶
Camponotus

Myrmentoma ⁴⁷

Bicolored Carpenter Ant ⁴⁸
Camponotus vicinus

Legionary Ants ⁴⁹
Neivamyrmex

Cocktail Ants ⁵⁰
Crematogaster

Red-haired Velvet Ant ²⁰
Dasymutilla aureola

Ancistrocerus ¹⁹

Eumenes ⁵¹

Leptochilus ⁵²

Pterocheilus ¹⁶

Stenodynerus

Euodynerus foraminatus-complex ⁵³

Pseudomasaris

Golden Paper Wasp ⁵⁴
Polistes aurifer

Ground Yellowjackets ⁵⁵
Vespula

Prairie Yellowjacket ⁵⁶
Vespula atropilosa

Western Yellowjacket ⁵⁷
Vespula pensylvanica

Pepsis ⁵⁸

Ophion ⁵⁹

Diplazon ⁶⁰

Microgastrinae ⁶¹

Chalcidoid Wasps ⁶²
Chalcidoidea

Seed Chalcidoid Wasps ⁴⁰
Eurytomidae

Gall Wasps ⁶³
Cynipidae

Andricus ⁶⁴

Golden Oak Apple Gall Wasp ⁶⁵
Andricus vacciniifoliae

Heteroecus ⁶⁶

Tapered Stem Gall Wasp ⁶⁷
Protobalandricus spectabilis

Live Oak Apple Gall Wasp ⁶⁷
Amphibolips quercuspomiformis

Ruptured Twig Gall Wasp ⁶⁸
Callirhytis perdens

Eurytoma

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Field Guide to Spark Invertebrates

Thread-waisted Sand Wasps 3 Ammophila

Cutworm Wasps 4 Podalonia

Great Golden Digger Wasp 5 Sphex ichneumoneus

Beewolves 6 Philanthus

Sand Wasps 7 Bembicini

Masked Bees 10 Hylaeus

Digger Bees 11 Anthophorini

Urbane Digger Bee 12 Anthophora urbana

California Cuckoo Bee 13 Xeromelecta californica

Crotch's Bumble Bee 14 Bombus crotchii

Black-tailed Bumble Bee 7 Bombus melanopygus

Van Dyke's Bumble Bee Bombus vandykei

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee 15 Bombus vosnesenskii

California Bumble Bee 17 Bombus californicus

Western Honey Bee 18 Apis mellifera

Nomad Bees 21 Nomada

Peridot Bee Augochlorella pomoniella

Striped Sweat Bees 23 Agapostemon

Blood Bees 25 Sphecodes

Tripartite Sweat Bee 27 Halictus tripartitus

Wide-striped Sweat Bee Halictus farinosus

Metallic Sweat Bees 28 Dialictus

Mason Bees 31 Osmia

Prong-faced Slender-Mason 33 Protosmia rubifloris

Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bees 35 Coelioxys

Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees 36 Megachile

Nearctic resin bees 37 Chelostomoides

Silver-tailed Petalcutter Bee 39 Megachile montivaga

Spider Wasps 43 Pompilidae

Formicine Ants 44 Formicinae

Velvety Tree Ant 45 Liometopum occidentale

Carpenter and Sugar Ants 46 Camponotus

Bicolored Carpenter Ant 48 Camponotus vicinus

Legionary Ants 49 Neivamyrmex

Cocktail Ants 50 Crematogaster

Red-haired Velvet Ant 20 Dasymutilla aureola

Golden Paper Wasp 54 Polistes aurifer

Ground Yellowjackets 55 Vespula

Prairie Yellowjacket 56 Vespula atropilosa

Western Yellowjacket 57 Vespula pensylvanica

Chalcidoid Wasps 62 Chalcidoidea

Seed Chalcidoid Wasps 40 Eurytomidae

Gall Wasps 63 Cynipidae

Golden Oak Apple Gall Wasp 65 Andricus vacciniifoliae

Tapered Stem Gall Wasp 67 Protobalandricus spectabilis

Live Oak Apple Gall Wasp 67 Amphibolips quercuspomiformis

Ruptured Twig Gall Wasp 68 Callirhytis perdens