Carrizo Plains Plants and Insects Guide

This is a guide to help identify the some of the plants and floral visitors seen in the early spring at the Carrizo Plains National Monument.

Paracotalpa ursina rubripennis ¹

Eucera amsinckiae ²

Mason Bees ³
Osmia

Common Digger Bees ⁴
Anthophora

Diandrena ⁵

Elampus ⁶

Nomad Bees ⁷
Nomada

Thread-waisted Sand Wasps ⁷
Ammophila

Metallic Sweat Bees ⁸
Dialictus

Mining Bees ⁹
Andrena

Mountain-digger Bees ¹⁰
Habropoda

Pterocheilus ¹¹

High Noon Ant ¹²
Forelius pruinosus

Robber Flies ¹³
Asilidae

Flesh Flies and Satellite Flies ¹⁴
Sarcophagidae

Bristle Flies ¹⁵
Tachinidae

Blow Flies ¹⁶
Calliphoridae

Honeypot Ants ¹⁷
Myrmecocystus

Heterostylum ¹⁸

Greater Bee Flies ¹⁹
Bombylius

Large-tailed Aphideater ²⁰
Eupeodes volucris

Carpet Beetles ²¹
Anthrenus

Megapenthes ²²

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