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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 ↓

Two-striped Grasshopper 1
Melanoplus bivittatus
Putnam's Cicada 1
Platypedia putnami
Sitobion avenae 2
Long Thin Plant Bug 3
Megaloceroea recticornis
Small Milkweed Bug 4
Lygaeus kalmii
Seed Bug
Melanopleurus tener
Eastern Boxelder Bug 5
Boisea trivittata
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 6
Libellula pulchella
Variegated Meadowhawk 7
Sympetrum corruptum
Band-winged Meadowhawk 6
Sympetrum semicinctum
Common Whitetail 8
Plathemis lydia
Thick-legged Hover Fly 9
Syritta pipiens
Adejeania vexatrix 10
Pararchytas decisus 11
Stable Fly 12
Stomoxys calcitrans
Philygria debilis 13
European Mantis 14
Mantis religiosa
Curly Woodlouse 15
Cylisticus convexus
Rathke’s Woodlouse 16
Trachelipus rathkii
Common Pill Woodlouse 17
Armadillidium vulgare

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