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Gila monster climbing on a rock, with its tongue out

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Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle (Cicindela albissima)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Beetles (Coleoptera) › (Carabidae) › Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle (Cicindela albissima)

The Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, Cicindela albissima, is a rare insect that is limited to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes of Kane County in southern Utah. As i...


Brine Fly (Ephydra gracilis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › True Flies (Diptera) › (Ephydridae) › Brine Fly (Ephydra gracilis)

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Morrison's Bumble Bee (Bombus morrisoni)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Morrison's Bumble Bee (Bombus morrisoni)

Bombus morrisoni is a large bee known throughout much of the intermountain west and desert southwest, where it exists largely at the edge of bumble bee habitat ...


American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)

Bombus pensylvanicus is a large bumblebee that can be found nesting above-ground from early spring through late fall. Though it has only one known historic obse...


Western Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Western Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis)

Bombus occidentalis is seen in flight from early spring into early fall, often with distinctive white hair covering the end of the abdomen. Though it is declini...


Suckley's Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus suckleyi)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › Bees (Apidae) › Suckley's Cuckoo Bumble Bee (Bombus suckleyi)

B. suckleyi is an obligate social parasite of other bumble bee species, primarily B. occidentalis. Unlike other bumble bees, cuckoo bees will enter and take con...


Mojave Poppy Bee (Perdita meconis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants (Hymenoptera) › (Andrenidae) › Mojave Poppy Bee (Perdita meconis)

Perdita meconis is a pollen specialist of two plant species: the dwarf bear-poppy (Arctomecon humilis) and the Las vegas bear-poppy (Arctomecon californica). Th...


Utah Wood-Nymph (Cercyonis pegala utahensis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) › Utah Wood-Nymph (Cercyonis pegala utahensis)

Cercyonis pegala utahensis is an imperiled subspecies of the common wood nymph that is endemic to central and northern Utah. There is currently a lack of unders...


West Coast Lady Butterfly (Vanessa annabella)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) › West Coast Lady Butterfly (Vanessa annabella)

The West coast lady, Vanessa annabella, is a widespread western species that can be found in a variety of natural and anthropogenic habitats. This once ubiquito...


Nokomis/Silverspot Butterfly (Speyeria nokomis nokomis)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) › Nokomis/Silverspot Butterfly (Speyeria nokomis nokomis)

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Ruddy Copper Butterfly (Tharsalea rubidus)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Gossamerwing / Hairstreak Butterflies (Lycaenidae) › Ruddy Copper Butterfly (Tharsalea rubidus)

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Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae) › Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

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Large Marble Butterfly (Euchloe ausonides)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Butterflies / Moths (Lepidoptera) › Orange-tip / White / Sulphur Butterflies (Pieridae) › Large Marble Butterfly (Euchloe ausonides)

Euchloe ausonides is a butterfly in the family Pieridae that is found widespread throughout western North America. It is a specialist of plants of the Brassicac...


Tanner's Black Camel Cricket (Utabaenetes tanneri)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Grasshoppers (Orthoptera) › Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) › Tanner's Black Camel Cricket (Utabaenetes tanneri)

The Tanner’s black camel cricket/sand treader, Utabaenetes tanneri, is a large black cricket in the family Rhapidophoridae. All crickets in this family lack s...


Giant Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Stoneflies (Plecoptera) › Giant Stoneflies (Pteronarcyidae) › Giant Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica)

The Giant salmonfly or California giant stonefly, is a species of giant stonefly (Pteronarcyidae) found in mountain streams and rivers of Western North America....


Crested Sallfly (Gaufinia cristata)

» Animals (Animalia) › Arthropods (Arthropoda) › Insects (Insecta) › Stoneflies (Plecoptera) › Green Stoneflies (Chloroperlidae) › Crested Sallfly (Gaufinia cristata)

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