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Bugs of Cheyenne Mountain State Park

Cheyenne Mountain State Park is geographically situated just south of Colorado Springs. It lies beneath the eastern flank of Cheyenne Mountain, and borders the plains of Colorado. The park occupies an important transitional zone between Great Plains grassland communities and montane coniferous ...more ↓

Venerable Dart 1
Agrotis venerabilis
Old Man Dart 2
Agrotis vetusta
Army Cutworm Moth 3
Euxoa auxiliaris
Coastal Heathland Cutworm Moth 4
Abagrotis nefascia
Abagrotis denticulata 5
Xestia conchis 6
Beet Armyworm Moth 7
Spodoptera exigua
Civil Rustic Moth 8
Caradrina montana
American Bird's-wing 9
Dypterygia rozmani
Apamea atrosuffusa 10
Yellow-headed Cutworm Moth 11
Apamea amputatrix
Glassy Cutworm Moth 12
Apamea devastator
Pink-barred Lithacodia 13
Pseudeustrotia carneola
Half-banded Bryolymnia 14
Bryolymnia semifascia
Egira variabilis 15
Hydroeciodes serrata 16
Ulolonche disticha 17
Bristly Cutworm Moth 18
Lacinipolia renigera
Mesogona olivata 12
American Dun-bar Moth 7
Cosmia calami
Narrow-winged Midget Moth 19
Tarache augustipennis
Prairie Bird-dropping Moth 20
Ponometia binocula
Olive-shaded Bird-dropping Moth 21
Ponometia candefacta
Half-yellow Moth 22
Ponometia semiflava
Ponometia tortricina 19
Alfalfa Looper 3
Autographa californica
Straight-lined Looper Moth 18
Pseudeva purpurigera
Laugher Moth 23
Charadra deridens
Condica albolabes 10
Eight-spotted Forester Moth 24
Alypia octomaculata
Acronicta exempta 25
Chrysellus Flower Moth 26
Schinia chrysellus
Silver-banded Gem Moth 27
Schinia cumatilis
Jaguar Flower Moth 14
Schinia jaguarina
Leadplant Flower Moth 14
Schinia lucens
Schinia simplex 25
Corn Earworm Moth 28
Helicoverpa zea
Gilded Seedcropper 29
Basilodes chrysopis
Plagiomimicus dimidiata 25
Frothy Moth 30
Plagiomimicus spumosum
Plagiomimicus tepperi 31
Grotella septempunctata 17
Montana Six-plume Moth 12
Alucita montana
Gray Scoopwing 32
Callizzia amorata
Brown Bark Carpet Moth 33
Horisme intestinata
Prorella gypsata 34
Many-lined Carpet Moth 35
Anticlea multiferata
Stamnodes fervefactaria 20
Stamnodes formosata 36
Perizoma custodiata 7
Hydriomena expurgata 14
Common Carpet Moth 37
Epirrhoe alternata
Broad-lined Angle 17
Digrammia atrofasciata
Digrammia muscariata 38
Brown-bordered Geometer Moth 39
Eumacaria madopata
Drepanulatrix bifilata 40
Confused Eusarca Moth 41
Eusarca confusaria
Destutia excelsa 14
Common Gray 7
Anavitrinella pampinaria
Johnson's Euchlaena Moth 42
Euchlaena johnsonaria
American Oak Beauty 43
Phaeoura quernaria
Dichorda rectaria 12
Blackberry Looper Moth 44
Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria
Wavy-lined Emerald 45
Synchlora aerata
Large Lace Border 46
Scopula limboundata
Speckled Wave 26
Lobocleta peralbata
Idaea gemmata 47
Clover Hayworm Moth 48
Hypsopygia costalis
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia Moth 49
Hypsopygia olinalis
Ponderosa Pine Coneworm Moth 50
Dioryctria auranticella
Carmine Snout 51
Peoria approximella
Maple Webworm Moth 52
Pococera asperatella
Boxwood Leaftier Moth 53
Galasa nigrinodis
Spring Petrophila 54
Petrophila avernalis
Fractured Western Snout 55
Diastictis fracturalis
Lucerne Moth 22
Nomophila nearctica
Interrupted Lineodes Moth 56
Lineodes interrupta
Alfalfa Webworm Moth 12
Loxostege cereralis
Beet Webworm Moth 57
Loxostege sticticalis
Raspberry Pyrausta Moth 33
Pyrausta signatalis
Dimorphic Sitochroa Moth 58
Sitochroa chortalis
Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth 59
Harrisina metallica
Early Button Slug Moth 23
Tortricidia testacea
Diamondback Moth 60
Plutella xylostella
Four-spotted Yellowneck Moth 18
Oegoconia novimundi
Mourning Ethmia 17
Ethmia semilugens
Mountain-mahogany Moth 7
Ethmia discostrigella
Rifseria fuscotaeniaella 56
Aristotelia hexacopa 61
Sweet Clover Root Borer Moth 7
Walshia miscecolorella
Large Tolype Moth 62
Tolype velleda
American Lappet Moth 3
Phyllodesma americana
Western Tent Caterpillar 12
Malacosoma californica
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth 33
Malacosoma disstria
Colorado Short-horn Walkingstick 7
Parabacillus coloradus
Dasymutilla vestita 63
Pepsis grossa
Blue-winged Wasp 64
Scolia dubia
Great Black Wasp 65
Sphex pensylvanicus
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 66
Sceliphron caementarium

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