Invertebrates Seen at Brown?s Ranch

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INSECTS:
Ants:

        Desert Harvester Ants

        Honey Pot Ants
        Leaf Cutter Ants

        Native Fire Ants

 

Bees and Wasps:

        Carpenter Bee

        Digger Bee

        Digger Wasp

Honey Bee

Tarantula Hawk Wasp 

Beetles:

        Desert Skunk Beetle (Pinacate Beetle)

        Mesquite Girdler

        Palo Verde Root Borer

 

Bugs:

        Aphid Species

Cochineal Bugs

        Giant Mesquite Bug

        Milkweed Bug

 

Butterflies and Moths: 

        American Snout Butterfly

        Checkerspot spp 

Gulf Fritillary 

Hackberry Butterfly (Empress Leilia) 

        Monarch Butterfly 

        Morning Cloak 

Painted Lady 

        Pipevine Swallowtail 

        Queen Butterfly 

        Tiger Swallowtail 

Great Purple Hairstreak 

        Viceroy Butterfly 

White lined Sphinx Moth 

       

Dragonflies and Damselflies:

Dragonflies and Damselflies

 

Flies and Mosquitoes: 

        Mosquito Species

 

Grasshoppers, Mantids and kin: 

        Praying Mantis sp 

        Steel-blue Cricket Hunter

 

ARACHNIDS:

Scorpions: 

        Bark Scorpion 

Giant Hairy Scorpion 

        Striped-tailed Scorpion

Spiders: 

        Flower (Crab) Spiders 

        Jumping Spiders 

Tarantulas 

Wolf Spiders

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