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Lincoln Park Zoo BioBlitz Guide

A guide of selected species found near and within Lincoln Park Zoo.

Red-spotted Purple 1
Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Red Admiral 2
Vanessa atalanta
Painted Lady 3
Vanessa cardui
Question Mark 4
Polygonia interrogationis
Common Buckeye 5
Junonia coenia
Monarch 6
Danaus plexippus
American Snout 7
Libytheana carinenta
Spring Azure 8
Celastrina ladon
Orange Sulphur 9
Colias eurytheme
Clouded Sulphur 9
Colias philodice
Cabbage White 10
Pieris rapae
Ants, Bees, and Stinging Wasps
Aculeata
Bumble Bees 11
Bombus
Western Honey Bee 12
Apis mellifera
Hornets and Paper Wasps 13
Vespidae
Cicadas 14
Cicadoidea
Backswimmers 15
Notonectidae
Greater Water Boatman 16
Notonecta glauca
Water Scorpion 17
Nepa cinerea
Giant Water Bug 18
Lethocerus americanus
Water Treaders 19
Mesoveliidae
Dragonflies 20
Anisoptera
Pondhawks
Erythemis
Widow Skimmer 21
Libellula luctuosa
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 22
Libellula pulchella
Calico Pennant 23
Celithemis elisa
Halloween Pennant 24
Celithemis eponina
Variegated Meadowhawk 25
Sympetrum corruptum
White-faced Meadowhawk 26
Sympetrum obtrusum
Autumn Meadowhawk 26
Sympetrum vicinum
Wandering Glider 27
Pantala flavescens
Carolina Saddlebags 28
Tramea carolina
Black Saddlebags 27
Tramea lacerata
Dot-tailed Whiteface 29
Leucorrhinia intacta
Eastern Amberwing 6
Perithemis tenera
Common Whitetail 30
Plathemis lydia
Common Green Darner 26
Anax junius
Green-striped Darner 31
Aeshna verticalis
Swamp Darner 22
Epiaeschna heros
Prince Baskettail 32
Epitheca princeps
Damselflies 33
Zygoptera
Familiar Bluet 34
Enallagma civile
Citrine Forktail 35
Ischnura hastata
Fragile Forktail
Ischnura posita
Eastern Forktail 27
Ischnura verticalis
Ebony Jewelwing 36
Calopteryx maculata
Eastern Dobsonfly 37
Corydalus cornutus
Alderfly 38
Sialis lutaria
Crayfishes 39
Astacoidea
Amphipods 40
Amphipoda
Isopods 41
Isopoda
Copepods 42
Copepoda
Ostracods 43
Ostracoda
Daphnia 44
Water flea
Daphnia jollyi
Daphnia pulex 45
bristleworm
Cirratulus cirratus
Leeches 46
Hirudinea
Sludge Worm
Tubifex tubifex

Edited by Casey Merkle, rmay, and Matt Mulligan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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