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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 ↓

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

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