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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 ↓

Boxwood Leaftier Moth 1
Galasa nigrinodis
Spring Petrophila 2
Petrophila avernalis
Fractured Western Snout 3
Diastictis fracturalis
Lucerne Moth 4
Nomophila nearctica
Interrupted Lineodes Moth 5
Lineodes interrupta
Alfalfa Webworm Moth 6
Loxostege cereralis
Beet Webworm Moth 7
Loxostege sticticalis
Raspberry Pyrausta Moth 8
Pyrausta signatalis
Dimorphic Sitochroa Moth 9
Sitochroa chortalis
Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Moth 10
Harrisina metallica
Early Button Slug Moth 11
Tortricidia testacea
Diamondback Moth 12
Plutella xylostella
Four-spotted Yellowneck Moth 13
Oegoconia novimundi
Mourning Ethmia 14
Ethmia semilugens
Mountain-mahogany Moth 15
Ethmia discostrigella
Rifseria fuscotaeniaella 5
Aristotelia hexacopa 16
Sweet Clover Root Borer Moth 15
Walshia miscecolorella
Large Tolype Moth 17
Tolype velleda
American Lappet Moth 18
Phyllodesma americana
Western Tent Caterpillar 6
Malacosoma californica
Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth 8
Malacosoma disstria
Colorado Short-horn Walkingstick 15
Parabacillus coloradus
Dasymutilla vestita 19
Pepsis grossa
Blue-winged Wasp 20
Scolia dubia
Great Black Wasp 21
Sphex pensylvanicus
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 22
Sceliphron caementarium
Asian Mud-dauber Wasp 23
Sceliphron curvatum
Blue Mud Dauber 24
Chalybion californicum
Steniolia elegans 25
Ectemnius cephalotes
White-Shouldered Bumble Bee 26
Bombus appositus
Black and Gold Bumblebee 27
Bombus auricomus
Nevada Bumble Bee 28
Bombus nevadensis
Brown-belted Bumblebee 29
Bombus griseocollis
Black-notched Bumble Bee 30
Bombus bifarius
Hunt's Bumble Bee 29
Bombus huntii
Western Honey Bee 31
Apis mellifera
Golden Sweat Bee 32
Augochlorella aurata
Ligated Furrow Bee 33
Halictus ligatus
Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee 34
Lasioglossum sisymbrii
Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus 35
Euodynerus crypticus 36
Pseudomasaris vespoides 37
European Paper Wasp 38
Polistes dominula
Golden Paper Wasp 39
Polistes aurifer
Western Paper Wasp 40
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Bald-faced Hornet 41
Dolichovespula maculata
Alaska Yellowjacket 15
Vespula alascensis
Prairie Yellowjacket 42
Vespula atropilosa
Western Yellowjacket 43
Vespula pensylvanica
Acroricnus stylator 44
Hedgehog Gall Wasp 45
Acraspis erinacei
Black Sky Tiger Beetle 46
Cicindela nigrocoerulea
Large Grassland Tiger Beetle 47
Cicindela obsoleta
Punctured Tiger Beetle 22
Cicindela punctulata
Green Claybank Tiger Beetle 43
Cicindela denverensis
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 48
Cicindela sexguttata
Pasimachus elongatus 49
Murky Ground Beetle 50
Harpalus caliginosus
Dicaelus laevipennis 34
Rhantus gutticollis 51
Cryptocephalus notatus 52
Red-shouldered leaf beetle 53
Saxinis saucia
Sunflower Beetle 43
Zygogramma exclamationis
Zygogramma heterothecae 34
Disonycha caroliniana 54
Paranapiacaba tricincta 55
Common Asparagus Beetle 38
Crioceris asparagi
Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle 12
Anatis labiculata
Ashy Gray Ladybeetle 56
Olla v-nigrum
Asian Lady Beetle 7
Harmonia axyridis
Convergent Lady Beetle 57
Hippodamia convergens
Parenthesis Lady Beetle 58
Hippodamia parenthesis
Nine-spotted Lady Beetle 58
Coccinella novemnotata
Seven-spotted Ladybird 59
Coccinella septempunctata
Red-backed Darkling Beetle 60
Eleodes suturalis
Stenomorpha opaca 5
Zonitis bilineata 58
Zonitis sayi 61
Nemognatha sparsa 62
Blue Fungus Beetle 59
Gibbifer californicus
Phyllobaenus humeralis 61
Collops bipunctatus 29
Strawberry Root Weevil 58
Otiorhynchus ovatus
Red Sunflower Seed Weevil 34
Smicronyx fulvus
Prionus fissicornis 63
Prionus heriocus 64
Prionus heroicus
Gnathacmaeops pratensis 65
Anastrangalia sanguinea 66
Batyle suturalis 67
Tragidion coquus 68
Arhopalus asperatus 69
Common Longhorned Beetle
Spotted Pine Sawyer 16
Monochamus clamator
Tetraopes discoideus 70
Red-femured Milkweed Borer 43
Tetraopes femoratus
Yellow-necked firefly 71
Ellychnia flavicollis
Chauliognathus deceptus 72
Western Eyed Click Beetle 73
Alaus melanops

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