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Wildlife of Vega State Park

Vega State Park is located on the Grand Mesa, twelve miles east of Collbran and 43 miles east of Grand Junction in Mesa County. The 1,823-acre park lies at an elevation between 7,850 and 8,200 feet. The 898-surface-acre Vega reservoir supports rainbow, brook, brown, and cutthroat trout. ...more ↓

Asiatic Wall Jumping Spider 1
Attulus fasciger
Woodland Skipper 2
Ochlodes sylvanoides
Common Checkered-Skipper 3
Burnsius communis
Lucia Azure 4
Celastrina lucia
Garden Tiger 5
Arctia caja
Western Tent Caterpillar Moth 6
Malacosoma californica
Colorado Black-notched Bumble Bee 7
Bombus bifarius
Western Honey Bee 8
Apis mellifera
European Paper Wasp 9
Polistes dominula
Mormon Cricket 10
Anabrus simplex
Clear-winged Grasshopper 11
Camnula pellucida
Carolina Grasshopper 12
Dissosteira carolina
Two-striped Grasshopper 13
Melanoplus bivittatus
Cherry-faced Meadowhawk 14
Sympetrum internum
Greater Bee Fly 15
Bombylius major
Virile Crayfish 16
Faxonius virilis

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