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Insects and Arachnids of Chatfield State Park

Chatfield reservoir is one of the largest bodies of water along the Front Range open to public recreation. The park offers water enthusiasts the opportunity to enjoy fishing, boating, sailing, water-skiing, and swimming in the 1,500 surface acre reservoir. Nearly 3,900 acres of park land ...more ↓

Harvester Ants 1
Pogonomyrmex
Red Harvester Ant 2
Pogonomyrmex barbatus
Common Eastern Velvet Ant 3
Dasymutilla occidentalis
Chrysis angolensis 4
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 5
Sceliphron caementarium
Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp 6
Chlorion aerarium
Eastern Cicada-killer Wasp 3
Sphecius speciosus
Oblique Longhorn 7
Svastra obliqua
White-shouldered Bumble Bee 8
Bombus appositus
Nevada Bumble Bee 9
Bombus nevadensis
Brown-belted Bumble Bee 10
Bombus griseocollis
Hunt's Bumble Bee 7
Bombus huntii
American Bumble Bee 11
Bombus pensylvanicus
Western Honey Bee 12
Apis mellifera
Golden Sweat Bee 13
Augochlorella aurata
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee 14
Agapostemon virescens
European Woolcarder Bee 15
Anthidium manicatum
Parallel Leafcutter Bee 16
Megachile parallela
Milwaukee Mining Bee 17
Andrena milwaukeensis
Pseudomasaris vespoides 18
European Paper Wasp 19
Polistes dominula
Golden Paper Wasp 20
Polistes aurifer
Long-tailed Giant Ichneumonid Wasp 21
Megarhyssa macrurus

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