Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Bugs

This guide contains spiders, bees, wasps, ants, beetles, dragonflies, grasshoppers, flies and other bugs that can be found in the Denver-Boulder Metro Area, including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties.

Phyllocoptes didelphis ¹

Plantain Leaf Mite ²
Leipothrix coactus

Poison Ivy Leaf Mite ³
Aculops rhois

Willow Bead Gall Mite ⁴
Aculus tetanothrix

Maple Erineum Mite ⁵
Aceria calaceris

Witches Broom of Hackberry Mite ⁶
Aceria celtis

Ash Bead Gall Mite ⁷
Aceria fraxini

box elder pouch gall mite ⁵
Aceria negundi

Poplar Budgall Mite ⁸
Aceria parapopuli

Aceria trichophila ⁹

Black Cherry Leaf Gall Mite ¹⁰
Eriophyes cerasicrumena

Plum Finger Gall Mite ¹¹
Eriophyes emarginatae

Alder Leaf Gall Mite ⁹
Eriophyes laevis

Red Nail Gall Mite ¹²
Eriophyes tiliae

Boxwood Mite ¹³
Eurytetranychus buxi

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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Bugs

Phyllocoptes didelphis 1

Plantain Leaf Mite 2 Leipothrix coactus

Poison Ivy Leaf Mite 3 Aculops rhois

Willow Bead Gall Mite 4 Aculus tetanothrix

Maple Erineum Mite 5 Aceria calaceris

Witches Broom of Hackberry Mite 6 Aceria celtis

Ash Bead Gall Mite 7 Aceria fraxini

box elder pouch gall mite 5 Aceria negundi

Poplar Budgall Mite 8 Aceria parapopuli

Aceria trichophila 9

Black Cherry Leaf Gall Mite 10 Eriophyes cerasicrumena

Plum Finger Gall Mite 11 Eriophyes emarginatae

Alder Leaf Gall Mite 9 Eriophyes laevis

Red Nail Gall Mite 12 Eriophyes tiliae

Boxwood Mite 13 Eurytetranychus buxi