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 ↓

Mexican Honeypot Ant ¹
Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Red Harvester Ant ²
Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Rough Harvester Ant ³
Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Common Eastern Velvet Ant ⁴
Dasymutilla occidentalis

Four-spotted Velvet Ant ⁵
Dasymutilla quadriguttata

Dasymutilla stevensi ⁶

Two-spotted Spider Wasp ⁷
Episyron biguttatus

Hairy-footed Scoliid Wasp ⁸
Dielis pilipes

Noble Scoliid Wasp ⁴
Scolia nobilitata

Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp ⁹
Sceliphron caementarium

Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp ¹⁰
Chalybion californicum

Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp ¹¹
Chlorion aerarium

Cerceris bicornuta ¹¹

Cerceris frontata ⁸

Bumblebee-like Digger Bee ¹²
Anthophora bomboides

American Bumble Bee ¹³
Bombus pensylvanicus

Western Honey Bee ¹⁴
Apis mellifera

Concave Longhorn-Cuckoo ¹⁵
Triepeolus concavus

Euodynerus annulatus ⁸

European Paper Wasp ¹⁶
Polistes dominula

Golden Paper Wasp ¹⁷
Polistes aurifer

Metric Paper Wasp ¹⁸
Polistes metricus

Western Paper Wasp ¹⁹
Mischocyttarus flavitarsis

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Insects of Lake Pueblo State Park

Mexican Honeypot Ant 1 Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Red Harvester Ant 2 Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Rough Harvester Ant 3 Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Common Eastern Velvet Ant 4 Dasymutilla occidentalis

Four-spotted Velvet Ant 5 Dasymutilla quadriguttata

Dasymutilla stevensi 6

Two-spotted Spider Wasp 7 Episyron biguttatus

Hairy-footed Scoliid Wasp 8 Dielis pilipes

Noble Scoliid Wasp 4 Scolia nobilitata

Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 9 Sceliphron caementarium

Nearctic Blue Mud-dauber Wasp 10 Chalybion californicum

Steel-blue Cricket-hunter Wasp 11 Chlorion aerarium

Cerceris bicornuta 11

Cerceris frontata 8

Bumblebee-like Digger Bee 12 Anthophora bomboides

American Bumble Bee 13 Bombus pensylvanicus

Western Honey Bee 14 Apis mellifera

Concave Longhorn-Cuckoo 15 Triepeolus concavus

Euodynerus annulatus 8

European Paper Wasp 16 Polistes dominula

Golden Paper Wasp 17 Polistes aurifer

Metric Paper Wasp 18 Polistes metricus

Western Paper Wasp 19 Mischocyttarus flavitarsis