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A guide to california's Yosemite and it's wildlife

A guide to the animals of Yosemite and their many surroundings

Nokomis Fritillary 1
Speyeria nokomis
Northwestern Fritillary 2
Speyeria hesperis
Pacific Fritillary 3
Boloria epithore
Sierra Nevada Checkerspot 4
Chlosyne whitneyi
Sierra Nevada Parnassian 5
Parnassius behrii
Western Paper Wasp 6
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Smooth carpenter ant 7
Camponotus laevigatus
Western Carpenter Ant 8
Camponotus modoc
Bicolored Carpenter Ant 9
Camponotus vicinus
Velvety Tree Ant 10
Liometopum occidentale
Black Burying Beetle 11
Nicrophorus nigrita
Grappletail 12
Octogomphus specularis
Golden Hairstreak 13
Habrodais grunus
California Glowworm 14
Ellychnia californica
Oleander Aphid 7
Aphis nerii
Grapevine Hoplia 6
Hoplia callipyge
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 15
Libellula pulchella
Silver-spotted Skipper 16
Epargyreus clarus
American Giant Water Bug 17
Lethocerus americanus
Large Yellow Underwing 18
Noctua pronuba
Pine White 4
Neophasia menapia
Western Pine Elfin 3
Callophrys eryphon
White-spotted Sawyer Beetle 19
Monochamus scutellatus
Field Crescent 20
Phyciodes pulchella
Western Sculptured Pine Borer 21
Chalcophora angulicollis
Western Sheep Moth 22
Hemileuca eglanterina
Oblique-lined Tiger Beetle 23
Cicindela tranquebarica
Margined White 24
Pieris marginalis
Sacken's Velvet Ant 25
Dasymutilla sackenii
Two-banded Checkered-Skipper 26
Pyrgus ruralis
Juniper Hairstreak 12
Callophrys gryneus
Common Whitetail 27
Plathemis lydia
Ten-lined June Beetle 28
Polyphylla decemlineata
European Paper Wasp 29
Polistes dominula
Silver-spotted Tiger Moth 30
Lophocampa argentata
Great Golden Digger Wasp 31
Sphex ichneumoneus
Western Red Damsel 32
Amphiagrion abbreviatum
Great Spreadwing 33
Archilestes grandis
American Emerald 34
Cordulia shurtleffii
Spotted Spreadwing 32
Lestes congener
Northern Spreadwing 35
Lestes disjunctus
Emerald Spreadwing 32
Lestes dryas
Crimson-ringed Whiteface 33
Leucorrhinia glacialis
Hudsonian Whiteface 36
Leucorrhinia hudsonica
Mountain Emerald 36
Somatochlora semicircularis
Striped Meadowhawk 37
Sympetrum pallipes
Band-winged Meadowhawk 38
Sympetrum semicinctum
Dimorphic Flower Longhorn Beetle 39
Anastrangalia laetifica
Sierra Sulphur 5
Colias behrii
Lustrous Copper 40
Lycaena cupreus
Edith's Copper 41
Lycaena editha
Lilac-bordered Copper 42
Lycaena nivalis
Mariposa Copper 11
Lycaena mariposa
Gray Marble 43
Anthocharis lanceolata
Dotted Blue 44
Euphilotes enoptes
Lupine Blue 1
Icaricia lupini
Chryxus Arctic 45
Oeneis chryxus
Juba Skipper 46
Hesperia juba
Sonoran Skipper 47
Polites sonora
Macaria adonis 22
Common Aerial Yellowjacket 48
Dolichovespula arenaria
Twenty-spotted Lady Beetle 49
Psyllobora vigintimaculata
Dasymutilla aureola 11
Cobalt Milkweed Beetle 50
Chrysochus cobaltinus
Columbian Emerald 44
Nemoria darwiniata
Pine Trogossitid Beetle 51
Temnoscheila chlorodia
Spiny Tachinid Fly 52
Paradejeania rutilioides
Arizona Mantis 32
Stagmomantis limbata
Blue Orchard Bee 53
Osmia lignaria
Sphex lucae 54
Red Flat Bark Beetle 49
Cucujus clavipes
Leanira Checkerspot 4
Chlosyne leanira
Melissa Blue 34
Plebejus melissa
Anna's Blue 55
Plebejus anna
Edwards' Glassy-wing Moth 56
Pseudohemihyalea edwardsii
Beaked Spindle Gall Wasp 22
Heteroecus pacificus
Sequoia Sphinx 44
Sphinx sequoiae
Dispirited Tiger Beetle 22
Cicindela depressula
Boreal Long-lipped Tiger Beetle 57
Cicindela longilabris
Callimoxys fuscipennis 58
Neomyia cornicina 59
White-spotted Midget 60
Eutricopis nexilis
Black-tailed Bumble Bee 6
Bombus melanopygus
Yellow Dung Fly 61
Scathophaga stercoraria
Villa lateralis 62
Simple Wave 30
Scopula junctaria
Mushroom Gall Wasp 63
Heteroecus sanctaeclarae
Mormon Cricket 64
Anabrus simplex
Shasta Grasshopper 65
Circotettix shastanus
Crackling Forest Grasshopper 66
Trimerotropis verruculata
Golden Paper Wasp 67
Polistes aurifer
Norton's Giant Ichneumonid Wasp 43
Megarhyssa nortoni
Eubrianax edwardsii
Fontana Grasshopper 4
Trimerotropis fontana
Clear-winged Grasshopper 68
Camnula pellucida
Crystalline Gall Wasp 22
Andricus crystallinus
Judolia instabilis 69
Parnopes edwardsii 70
Western Eyed Click Beetle 71
Alaus melanops
McNeill's White Grasshopper
Trimerotropis albescens

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