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Wildlife of Eldorado Canyon State Park

Eldorado Canyon State Park lies eight miles southwest of the city of Boulder along the eastern edge of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in an ecotone between the grasslands below and coniferous forests in and above the park. The park is made up of 1,442 acres owned by the State of ...more ↓

Echo Azure 1
Celastrina echo
Hops Azure 2
Celastrina humulus
Spring Azure 3
Celastrina ladon
Lucia Azure 4
Celastrina lucia
Arrowhead Blue 5
Glaucopsyche piasus
Dotted Blue 6
Euphilotes enoptes
Western Tailed Blue 7
Cupido amyntula
Mexican Yellow 8
Eurema mexicana
Dainty Sulphur 9
Nathalis iole
Cabbage White 10
Pieris rapae
Checkered White 11
Pontia protodice
Spring White 11
Pontia sisymbrii
California Tiger Moth 6
Leptarctia californiae
Poison hemlock moth 12
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Western Tent Caterpillar 13
Malacosoma californica
Spotted Thyris Moth 14
Thyris maculata
Great Golden Digger Wasp 15
Sphex ichneumoneus
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 16
Sceliphron caementarium
White-Shouldered Bumble Bee 17
Bombus appositus
Brown-belted Bumble Bee 18
Bombus griseocollis
Great Basin Bumble Bee 19
Bombus centralis
Hunt's Bumble Bee 20
Bombus huntii
Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee 21
Bombus bifarius
Western Honey Bee 22
Apis mellifera
Black Shortface 23
Dufourea maura
Milwaukee Mining Bee 24
Andrena milwaukeensis
Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus 25
European Paper Wasp 26
Polistes dominula
Western Paper Wasp 27
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Mossy Rose Gall Wasp 28
Diplolepis rosae
Punctured Tiger Beetle 29
Cicindela punctulata
Anthrenus lepidus 30
Saint John's Wort Beetle 31
Chrysolina hyperici
Microrhopala excavata 32
Agroiconota bivittata 32
Convergent Lady Beetle 33
Hippodamia convergens
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle 34
Coccinella septempunctata
Blue Fungus Beetle 34
Cypherotylus californicus
Ornate Checkered Beetle 35
Trichodes ornatus
Scarlet Malachite Beetle 7
Malachius aeneus
Rough strawberry root weevil 36
Otiorhynchus rugosostriatus
Strawberry Root Weevil 37
Otiorhynchus ovatus
Hairy Spider Weevil 38
Barypeithes pellucidus
Rocky Mountain billbug 39
Sphenophorus cicatristriatus
Colorado Soldier Beetle 32
Chauliognathus basalis
Western Sculptured Pine Borer 40
Chalcophora angulicollis
Bumble Flower Beetle 41
Euphoria inda
Mormon Cricket 42
Anabrus simplex
Speckle-Winged Rangeland Grasshopper 43
Arphia conspersa
Green-striped Grasshopper 44
Chortophaga viridifasciata
Pallid-winged Grasshopper 45
Trimerotropis pallidipennis
Velvet-striped Grasshopper 46
Eritettix simplex
Two-striped Grasshopper 20
Melanoplus bivittatus
Putnam's Cicada 20
Platypedia putnami
Sitobion avenae 47
Long Thin Plant Bug 48
Megaloceroea recticornis
Small Milkweed Bug 49
Lygaeus kalmii
Seed Bug
Melanopleurus tener
Eastern Boxelder Bug 50
Boisea trivittata
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 51
Libellula pulchella
Variegated Meadowhawk 52
Sympetrum corruptum
Band-winged Meadowhawk 51
Sympetrum semicinctum
Common Whitetail 53
Plathemis lydia
Thick-legged Hover Fly 54
Syritta pipiens
Adejeania vexatrix 55
Pararchytas decisus 56
Stable Fly 57
Stomoxys calcitrans
Philygria debilis 58
European Mantis 59
Mantis religiosa
Curly Woodlouse 60
Cylisticus convexus
Rathke’s Woodlouse 32
Trachelipus rathkii
Common Pill Woodlouse 61
Armadillidium vulgare

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