University of Arizona Pollinator Field Guide

Welcome! This is a guide to some of the many pollinators that may be sighted around the university campus.

Here, we included species of bees (Hymenoptera*) and butterflies (Lepidoptera*) that have been observed on campus and logged onto the iNaturalist database.

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California Digger Bee 1
Anthophora californica
Western Honey Bee 1
Apis mellifera
Sonoran Bumble Bee 1
Bombus sonorus
Western Carpenter 2
Xylocopa californica
Valley Carpenter Bee 1
Xylocopa varipuncta / Xylocopa sonorina
Orange Skipperling 1
Copaeodes aurantiaca
Funereal Duskywing 1
Erynnis funeralis
Fiery Skipper 1
Hylephila phyleus
Eufala Skipper 1
Lerodea eufala
Western Pygmy-Blue 1
Brephidium exilis / exile
Reakirt's Blue 1
Echinargus isola
Ceraunus Blue 1
Hemiargus ceraunus
Marine Blue 1
Leptotes marina
Gray Hairstreak 1
Strymon melinus
Gulf Fritillary 1
Agraulis vanillae
Texan Crescent 1
Anthanassa texana
Hackberry Emperor 3
Asterocampa celtis
Bordered Patch 1
Chlosyne lacinia
Queen 1
Danaus gilippus
Monarch 1
Danaus plexippus
Common Buckeye 1
Junonia coenia
American Snout 1
Libytheana carinenta
Painted Lady 1
Vanessa cardui
American Lady 1
Vanessa virginiensis
Pipevine Swallowtail 4
Battus philenor
Black Swallowtail 1
Papilio polyxenes
Orange Sulphur 1
Colias eurytheme
Large Orange Sulphur 1
Phoebis agarithe
Cloudless Sulphur 1
Phoebis sennae
Checkered White 1
Pontia protodice
Southern Dogface 1
Zerene cesonia
Arizona Metalmark 1
Calephelis arizonensis

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