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Bugs of Mueller State Park

Mueller State Park preserves an area of semi-wilderness within a short drive of one of Colorado’s largest metropolitan areas – Colorado Springs. The park is located on the western flank of Pike’s Peak, at elevations between 8900-9800 feet. Mueller is comprised of 5,121 acres of land, owned by ...more ↓

Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth 1
Malacosoma americana
Western Tent Caterpillar 2
Malacosoma californica
Glorious Habrosyne Moth 3
Habrosyne gloriosa
Western Carpenter Ant 4
Camponotus modoc
Ectemnius dilectus 5
Oblique Longhorn 6
Svastra obliqua
Orange-tipped Wood-digger Bee 7
Anthophora terminalis
White-shouldered Bumble Bee 8
Bombus appositus
Great Basin Bumble Bee 9
Bombus centralis
Hunt's Bumble Bee 6
Bombus huntii
Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee 10
Megachile melanophaea
Megachile inermis 10
Silver-tailed Petalcutter Bee 11
Megachile montivaga
Alaska Yellowjacket 12
Vespula alascensis
Western Yellowjacket 6
Vespula pensylvanica
Punctured Tiger Beetle 13
Cicindela punctulata
Boreal Long-lipped Tiger Beetle 14
Cicindela longilabris
Spotted Cucumber Beetle 15
Diabrotica undecimpunctata
Convergent Lady Beetle 16
Hippodamia convergens
Nuttall's blister beetle 17
Lytta nuttalli
Ornate Checkered Beetle 18
Trichodes ornatus
Grammoptera subargentata 19
Spotted Pine Sawyer 20
Monochamus clamator
White-spotted Sawyer Beetle 21
Monochamus scutellatus
Tropisternus lateralis 22
Mormon Cricket 23
Anabrus simplex
Orange-winged Grasshopper 24
Arphia conspersa
Clear-winged Grasshopper 25
Camnula pellucida
Red-shanked Grasshopper 26
Xanthippus corallipes
Wrangler Grasshopper 24
Circotettix rabula
Pallid-winged Grasshopper 27
Trimerotropis pallidipennis
Crackling Forest Grasshopper 28
Trimerotropis verruculata
Huckleberry Spur-throat Grasshopper 29
Melanoplus fasciatus
Two-striped Grasshopper 6
Melanoplus bivittatus
Red-legged Grasshopper 10
Melanoplus femurrubrum
Douglas Fir Adelgid 30
Adelges cooleyi
Limnoporus notabilis 31
Common Water Strider 32
Aquarius remigis
Small Milkweed Bug 33
Lygaeus kalmii
Western Small Milkweed Bug 34
Lygaeus kalmii kalmii
Four-spotted Chaser 35
Libellula quadrimaculata
Hudsonian Emerald 2
Somatochlora hudsonica
Pale Snaketail 36
Ophiogomphus severus
Paddle-tailed Darner 2
Aeshna palmata
Northern Spreadwing 37
Lestes disjunctus
Boreal Bluet 2
Enallagma boreale
Common Loopwing Aphideater 10
Lapposyrphus lapponicus
Black-margined Flower Fly 38
Syrphus opinator
Margined Calligrapher 39
Toxomerus marginatus
Adejeania vexatrix 40
Stable Fly 28
Stomoxys calcitrans
Physocephala texana 41
Coleomyia alticola
Sinuous Bee Fly 42
Hemipenthes sinuosa
Dorcadion Bee Fly 43
Exoprosopa dorcadion
Siphlonurus occidentalis 44

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