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Bugs of Barr Lake State Park

Covering more than 1,900 surface acres, Barr Lake is one of the largest prairie reservoirs in Colorado open to public recreation. Barr Lake provides habitat for more than 340 species of birds and its significance is recognized on both national and international levels. Nearly 700 acres of ...more ↓

Red-femured Milkweed Borer 1
Tetraopes femoratus
Colorado Soldier Beetle 2
Chauliognathus basalis
hairy rove beetle 3
Creophilus maxillosus
Yellow-bellied Burying Beetle 4
Nicrophorus guttula
Garden Carrion Beetle 5
Heterosilpha ramosa
Greater Anglewing 6
Microcentrum rhombifolium
Green-striped Grasshopper 7
Chortophaga viridifasciata
Pallid-winged Grasshopper 8
Trimerotropis pallidipennis
Velvet-striped Grasshopper 9
Eritettix simplex
Differential Grasshopper 10
Melanoplus differentialis
Two-striped Grasshopper 11
Melanoplus bivittatus
Cuerna alpina 2
Two-striped Planthopper 12
Acanalonia bivittata
Large Milkweed Bug 13
Oncopeltus fasciatus
Small Milkweed Bug 14
Lygaeus kalmii
Western Small Milkweed Bug 15
Lygaeus kalmii kalmii
Two-spotted Stink Bug 16
Perillus bioculatus
Western Leaf-footed Bug 17
Leptoglossus clypealis
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 18
Libellula pulchella
White-faced Meadowhawk 19
Sympetrum obtrusum
Striped Meadowhawk 20
Sympetrum pallipes
Band-winged Meadowhawk 21
Sympetrum semicinctum
Black Saddlebags 22
Tramea lacerata
Common Green Darner 23
Anax junius
Blue-eyed Darner 24
Rhionaeschna multicolor
Spotted Spreadwing 21
Lestes congener
Slender Spreadwing 25
Lestes rectangularis
Tule Bluet 26
Enallagma carunculatum
Common Earwig 27
Forficula auricularia
Aedes increpitus 28
Aedes dorsalis 29
Narrow-headed Marsh Fly 30
Helophilus fasciatus
Broad-headed Marsh Fly 31
Helophilus latifrons
Common Drone Fly 32
Eristalis tenax
Peacock Fly 13
Callopistromyia annulipes
Solva pallipes 13
European Mantis 33
Mantis religiosa
Golden-eyed Lacewing 34
Chrysopa oculata
Common Pill Woodlouse 35
Armadillidium vulgare

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