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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 ↓

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

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