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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 ↓

Dasymutilla vestita 1
Pepsis grossa
Blue-winged Wasp 2
Scolia dubia
Great Black Wasp 3
Sphex pensylvanicus
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 4
Sceliphron caementarium
Asian Mud-dauber Wasp 5
Sceliphron curvatum
Blue Mud Dauber 6
Chalybion californicum
Steniolia elegans 7
Ectemnius cephalotes
White-Shouldered Bumble Bee 8
Bombus appositus
Black and Gold Bumblebee 9
Bombus auricomus
Nevada Bumble Bee 10
Bombus nevadensis
Brown-belted Bumblebee 11
Bombus griseocollis
Black-notched Bumble Bee 12
Bombus bifarius
Hunt's Bumble Bee 11
Bombus huntii
Western Honey Bee 13
Apis mellifera
Golden Sweat Bee 14
Augochlorella aurata
Ligated Furrow Bee 15
Halictus ligatus
Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee 16
Lasioglossum sisymbrii
Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus 17
Euodynerus crypticus 18
Pseudomasaris vespoides 19
European Paper Wasp 20
Polistes dominula
Golden Paper Wasp 21
Polistes aurifer
Western Paper Wasp 22
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Bald-faced Hornet 23
Dolichovespula maculata
Alaska Yellowjacket 24
Vespula alascensis
Prairie Yellowjacket 25
Vespula atropilosa
Western Yellowjacket 26
Vespula pensylvanica
Acroricnus stylator 27
Hedgehog Gall Wasp 28
Acraspis erinacei

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