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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 ↓

Asian Mud-dauber Wasp 1
Sceliphron curvatum
Blue Mud Dauber 2
Chalybion californicum
Steniolia elegans 3
Ectemnius cephalotes
White-Shouldered Bumble Bee 4
Bombus appositus
Black and Gold Bumblebee 5
Bombus auricomus
Nevada Bumble Bee 6
Bombus nevadensis
Brown-belted Bumblebee 7
Bombus griseocollis
Black-notched Bumble Bee 8
Bombus bifarius
Hunt's Bumble Bee 7
Bombus huntii
Western Honey Bee 9
Apis mellifera
Golden Sweat Bee 10
Augochlorella aurata
Ligated Furrow Bee 11
Halictus ligatus
Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee 12
Lasioglossum sisymbrii
Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus 13
Euodynerus crypticus 14
Pseudomasaris vespoides 15
European Paper Wasp 16
Polistes dominula
Golden Paper Wasp 17
Polistes aurifer
Western Paper Wasp 18
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Bald-faced Hornet 19
Dolichovespula maculata
Alaska Yellowjacket 20
Vespula alascensis
Prairie Yellowjacket 21
Vespula atropilosa
Western Yellowjacket 22
Vespula pensylvanica
Acroricnus stylator 23
Hedgehog Gall Wasp 24
Acraspis erinacei
Black Sky Tiger Beetle 25
Cicindela nigrocoerulea
Large Grassland Tiger Beetle 26
Cicindela obsoleta
Punctured Tiger Beetle 27
Cicindela punctulata
Green Claybank Tiger Beetle 22
Cicindela denverensis
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 28
Cicindela sexguttata
Pasimachus elongatus 29
Murky Ground Beetle 30
Harpalus caliginosus
Dicaelus laevipennis 12
Rhantus gutticollis 31
Cryptocephalus notatus 32
Red-shouldered leaf beetle 33
Saxinis saucia
Sunflower Beetle 22
Zygogramma exclamationis
Zygogramma heterothecae 12
Disonycha caroliniana 34
Paranapiacaba tricincta 35
Common Asparagus Beetle 16
Crioceris asparagi
Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle 36
Anatis labiculata
Ashy Gray Ladybeetle 37
Olla v-nigrum
Asian Lady Beetle 38
Harmonia axyridis
Convergent Lady Beetle 39
Hippodamia convergens
Parenthesis Lady Beetle 40
Hippodamia parenthesis
Nine-spotted Lady Beetle 40
Coccinella novemnotata
Seven-spotted Ladybird 41
Coccinella septempunctata
Red-backed Darkling Beetle 42
Eleodes suturalis
Stenomorpha opaca 43
Zonitis bilineata 40
Zonitis sayi 44
Nemognatha sparsa 45
Blue Fungus Beetle 41
Gibbifer californicus
Phyllobaenus humeralis 44
Collops bipunctatus 7
Strawberry Root Weevil 40
Otiorhynchus ovatus
Red Sunflower Seed Weevil 12
Smicronyx fulvus
Prionus fissicornis 46
Prionus heriocus 47
Prionus heroicus
Gnathacmaeops pratensis 48
Anastrangalia sanguinea 49
Batyle suturalis 50
Tragidion coquus 51
Arhopalus asperatus 52
Common Longhorned Beetle
Spotted Pine Sawyer 53
Monochamus clamator
Tetraopes discoideus 54
Red-femured Milkweed Borer 22
Tetraopes femoratus
Yellow-necked firefly 55
Ellychnia flavicollis
Chauliognathus deceptus 56
Western Eyed Click Beetle 57
Alaus melanops
Agrilaxia flavimana 58
Acmaeodera mixta 59
Acmaeodera rubronotata 60
Emerald Euphoria 61
Euphoria fulgida
Kern's Flower Scarab
Euphoria kernii
Brown Scarab Beetle 62
Phyllophaga lanceolata
Cottonwood Stag Beetle 56
Lucanus mazama
Snowy Tree Cricket 63
Oecanthus fultoni
Orange-winged Grasshopper 64
Arphia conspersa
Green-striped Grasshopper 65
Chortophaga viridifasciata
Coral-winged Grasshopper 66
Pardalophora apiculata
Red-shanked Grasshopper 67
Xanthippus corallipes
Platte Range Grasshopper 22
Mestobregma plattei
Trachyrhachys aspera 22
Pallid-winged Grasshopper 44
Trimerotropis pallidipennis
Lichen Grasshopper 65
Trimerotropis saxatilis
Carolina Grasshopper 68
Dissosteira carolina
Montezuma's Grasshopper 69
Syrbula montezuma
White-whiskered grasshopper 70
Ageneotettix deorum
Velvet-striped Grasshopper 71
Eritettix simplex
Striped Slant-faced Grasshopper 50
Amphitornus coloradus
Large-headed Grasshopper 41
Phoetaliotes nebrascensis
Sage Grasshopper 72
Hypochlora alba
Keeler's Spur-throat Grasshopper 73
Melanoplus keeleri
Two-striped Grasshopper 74
Melanoplus bivittatus
Red-legged Grasshopper 75
Melanoplus femurrubrum
Migratory Grasshopper 76
Melanoplus sanguinipes
Archasia auriculata 55

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