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Dinosaur State Park Guide

This guide was created to help our visitors understand what sorts of plants and animals we have in Connecticut, but specifically at Dinosaur State Park. Each of these plants and animals is important not just to the environment, but to humans as well.

Gypsy Moth 1
Lymantria dispar
Eastern Carpenter Bee 2
Xylocopa virginica
Blue Dasher 3
Pachydiplax longipennis
Eastern Pondhawk 4
Erythemis simplicicollis
Common Whitetail 5
Plathemis lydia
European Paper Wasp 6
Polistes dominula
Brown-belted Bumble Bee 7
Bombus griseocollis
Winter Firefly 8
Ellychnia corrusca
Sycamore Tussock Moth 9
Halysidota harrisii
Slender Flower Longhorn Beetle 10
Strangalia famelica
Brachyleptura rubrica 11
Ant-like longhorn beetle 12
Cyrtophorus verrucosus

Edited by dillydino1966 and Michael Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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