Invertebrates Seen at Coon Bluff

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CENTIPEDES AND MILLIPEDES:

        Giant Desert Centipede

        Desert Millipede

 

INSECTS:

Ants:

        Desert Harvester Ants

        Thistledown Velvet Ant

 

Bees and Wasps:

        Carpenter Bee

        Digger Bees

        Digger Wasps

Honey Bee

        Leaf-cutter Bee species

Tarantula Hawk Wasp

        Umbrella Wasp

Velvet Ants

 

Beetles:

        Arizona Blister Beetle

Blue Death-feigning Beetle

        Dung Beetle sp

        Iron Cross Blister Beetle

        Long-jawed Longhorned Beetle

        Mesquite Girdler

        Mimosestes Seed Beetle        

        Palo Verde Root Borer

        Desert Skunk Beetle (Pinacate Beetle)

        Sunburst Diving Beetle

        Tiger Beetle sp

 

Bugs:

        Aphid species

Cochineal Bugs

        Giant Mesquite Bug

        Milkweed Bug

 

Butterflies and Moths:

        Bordered Patch Butterfly                

        Desert Checkerspot

Gulf Fritillary

        Monarch Butterfly 

Painted Lady

        Pipevine Swallowtail

        Queen Butterfly

        Tiger Swallowtail

        Great Purple Hairstreak

        Viceroy Butterfly

 

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:

        Black Widow Spiders

        Flower (Crab) Spiders

        Giant Crab Spiders

        Jumping Spiders

Tarantulas

Wolf Spiders

 

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