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.

Taxonomy
« Back To Winged and Once-winged Insects Subclass Pterygota
- Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids Order Orthoptera
  - 16 Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Allies Suborder Caelifera
  - 4 Katydids, Crickets, and Allies Suborder Ensifera

Thermometer Cricket ¹
Oecanthus fultoni

Fork-tailed Bush Katydid ²
Scudderia furcata

Greater Anglewing ³
Microcentrum rhombifolium

Mormon Cricket ⁴
Anabrus simplex

Orange-winged Grasshopper ⁵
Arphia conspersa

Red-winged Grasshopper ⁶
Arphia pseudonietana

Green-striped Grasshopper ⁷
Chortophaga viridifasciata

Wrinkled Grasshopper ⁸
Hippiscus ocelote

Coral-winged Grasshopper ⁹
Pardalophora apiculata

Wrangler Grasshopper ⁵
Circotettix rabula

Pallid-winged Grasshopper ¹⁰
Trimerotropis pallidipennis

Carolina Grasshopper ¹¹
Dissosteira carolina

Velvet-striped Grasshopper ¹²
Eritettix simplex

Rainbow Grasshopper ¹³
Dactylotum bicolor

Snakeweed Grasshopper ⁶
Hesperotettix viridis

Differential Grasshopper ¹⁴
Melanoplus differentialis

Lakin Grasshopper ⁹
Melanoplus lakinus

Two-striped Grasshopper ¹⁵
Melanoplus bivittatus

Red-legged Grasshopper ¹⁶
Melanoplus femurrubrum

Plains Lubber Grasshopper ¹⁷
Brachystola magna

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Denver-Boulder Metro Area: Bugs

Thermometer Cricket 1 Oecanthus fultoni

Fork-tailed Bush Katydid 2 Scudderia furcata

Greater Anglewing 3 Microcentrum rhombifolium

Mormon Cricket 4 Anabrus simplex

Orange-winged Grasshopper 5 Arphia conspersa

Red-winged Grasshopper 6 Arphia pseudonietana

Green-striped Grasshopper 7 Chortophaga viridifasciata

Wrinkled Grasshopper 8 Hippiscus ocelote

Coral-winged Grasshopper 9 Pardalophora apiculata

Wrangler Grasshopper 5 Circotettix rabula

Pallid-winged Grasshopper 10 Trimerotropis pallidipennis

Carolina Grasshopper 11 Dissosteira carolina

Velvet-striped Grasshopper 12 Eritettix simplex

Rainbow Grasshopper 13 Dactylotum bicolor

Snakeweed Grasshopper 6 Hesperotettix viridis

Differential Grasshopper 14 Melanoplus differentialis

Lakin Grasshopper 9 Melanoplus lakinus

Two-striped Grasshopper 15 Melanoplus bivittatus

Red-legged Grasshopper 16 Melanoplus femurrubrum

Plains Lubber Grasshopper 17 Brachystola magna