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Insects of Lake Pueblo State Park

Positioned approximately six miles west of the City of Pueblo, and within two hour’s drive of Denver and Colorado Springs, Lake Pueblo State Park attracts around 1.8 million visitors each year. It is located at the interface of the southern Rocky Mountains to the west and Great Plains to the ...more ↓

Western Black Widow 1
Latrodectus hesperus
Yellow Garden Spider 2
Argiope aurantia
Cat-faced Orbweaver 3
Araneus gemmoides
Phidippus asotus 4
Bold Jumping Spider 5
Phidippus audax
Apache Jumping Spider 6
Phidippus apacheanus
Long-bodied Cellar Spider 7
Pholcus phalangioides
Woodlouse Spider 8
Dysdera crocata
Texas Brown Tarantula 9
Aphonopelma hentzi
Striped Bark Scorpion 10
Centruroides vittatus
Black Swallowtail 11
Papilio polyxenes
Two-tailed Swallowtail 12
Papilio multicaudata
Western Tiger Swallowtail 13
Papilio rutulus
Bronze Roadside-Skipper 14
Amblyscirtes aenus
Fiery Skipper 15
Hylephila phyleus
Taxiles Skipper 16
Poanes taxiles
Sachem 17
Atalopedes campestris
Common Branded Skipper 18
Hesperia comma
Uncas Skipper 19
Hesperia uncas
Dun Skipper 10
Euphyes vestris
Viereck's Skipper 20
Atrytonopsis vierecki
Delaware Skipper 21
Anatrytone logan
Least Skipper 22
Ancyloxypha numitor
Silver-spotted Skipper 23
Epargyreus clarus
Common Checkered-Skipper 24
Burnsius communis
Saltbush Sootywing 10
Hesperopsis alpheus
Common Sootywing 25
Pholisora catullus
Goatweed Leafwing 26
Anaea andria
Viceroy 27
Limenitis archippus
Weidemeyer's Admiral 20
Limenitis weidemeyerii
Mylitta Crescent 28
Phyciodes mylitta
Phaon Crescent 10
Phyciodes phaon
Painted Crescent 29
Phyciodes picta
Field Crescent 30
Phyciodes pulchella
Pearl Crescent 31
Phyciodes tharos
Gorgone Checkerspot 10
Chlosyne gorgone
Red Admiral 32
Vanessa atalanta
Painted Lady 33
Vanessa cardui
Mourning Cloak 34
Nymphalis antiopa
Common Buckeye 35
Junonia coenia
Common Wood-Nymph 36
Cercyonis pegala
Aphrodite Fritillary 37
Speyeria aphrodite
Coronis Fritillary 38
Speyeria coronis
Edwards' Fritillary 29
Speyeria edwardsii
Variegated Fritillary 39
Euptoieta claudia
Queen 40
Danaus gilippus
Monarch 40
Danaus plexippus
American Snout 41
Libytheana carinenta
Gray Hairstreak 42
Strymon melinus
Acadian Hairstreak 17
Satyrium acadica
Sylvan Hairstreak 30
Satyrium sylvinus
Juniper Hairstreak 10
Callophrys gryneus
Gray Copper 43
Lycaena dione
Purplish Copper 44
Lycaena helloides
Bronze Copper 45
Lycaena hyllus
Square-spotted Blue 17
Euphilotes battoides
Western Pygmy-Blue 46
Brephidium exilis
Marine Blue 47
Leptotes marina
Reakirt's Blue 37
Echinargus isola
Melissa Blue 29
Plebejus melissa
Southern Dogface 48
Zerene cesonia
Mexican Yellow 49
Eurema mexicana
Dainty Sulphur 29
Nathalis iole
Orange Sulphur 50
Colias eurytheme
Clouded Sulphur 50
Colias philodice
Cabbage White 51
Pieris rapae
Western White 52
Pontia occidentalis
Checkered White 39
Pontia protodice
Forage Looper Moth 53
Caenurgina erechtea
Fall Webworm Moth 54
Hyphantria cunea
Black-and-yellow Lichen Moth 55
Lycomorpha pholus
Army Cutworm Moth 53
Euxoa auxiliaris
Fall Armyworm Moth 56
Spodoptera frugiperda
Purslane Moth 57
Euscirrhopterus gloveri
Eight-spotted Forester Moth 58
Alypia octomaculata
Schinia albafascia 59
Pale Metanema Moth 60
Metanema inatomaria
Speckled Wave 10
Lobocleta peralbata
Chickweed Geometer Moth 61
Haematopis grataria
Spring Petrophila 62
Petrophila avernalis
Mexican Honeypot Ant 63
Myrmecocystus mexicanus
Red Harvester Ant 64
Pogonomyrmex barbatus
Rough Harvester Ant 65
Pogonomyrmex rugosus
Common Eastern Velvet Ant 66
Dasymutilla occidentalis
Four-spotted Velvet Ant 42
Dasymutilla quadriguttata
Dasymutilla stevensi 67
Two-spotted Spider Wasp 68
Episyron biguttatus
Hairy-footed Scoliid Wasp 69
Dielis pilipes
Noble Scoliid Wasp 66
Scolia nobilitata
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 70
Sceliphron caementarium
Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp 71
Chalybion californicum
Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp 10
Chlorion aerarium
Cerceris bicornuta 10
Cerceris frontata 69
Bumblebee-like Digger Bee 72
Anthophora bomboides
American Bumble Bee 73
Bombus pensylvanicus
Western Honey Bee 74
Apis mellifera
Concave Longhorn-Cuckoo 61
Triepeolus concavus
Euodynerus annulatus 69
European Paper Wasp 75
Polistes dominula

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