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1 0 House Wren

House Wren

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, active bird, brown with fine black bars on back and wings.

6 0 Tailed Copper (male)

Tailed Copper (male)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

This is the only "copper" butterfly with "tails."

0 0 Willow Leafhopper

Willow Leafhopper

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, bullet-shaped insect highly variable in color. Association with willows ...

0 0 Leafhopper

Leafhopper

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, non-descript brown leafhopper.

0 0 Russet Skipperling

Russet Skipperling

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, orange on underside, coppery brown above, with a row of three white ...

2 0 Painted Lady Beetle

Painted Lady Beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Oval, glossy beige with brown markings as shown. Unlike many lady beetles, ...

0 0 Common Yellowjacket (worker)

Common Yellowjacket (worker)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Ground-nesting species formerly a synonym of Vespula vulgaris (which is now ...

3 0 Tailed Copper (female)

Tailed Copper (female)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

The only "copper" with "tails."

0 0 Banded Hairstreak

Banded Hairstreak

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Distinctive pattern on the underside of the wings.

1 0 Orange Sulphur

Orange Sulphur

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Easily confused with the Clouded Sulphur, but males are much more "orange" on ...

3 1 Tailed Copper

Tailed Copper

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Distinctive pattern on underside of wings. Only "copper" with "tails."

0 0 Marine Blue

Marine Blue

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Very distinctive pattern of lines and spots on the underside of the wings.

1 0 Privet Leafhopper

Privet Leafhopper

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, brown with white markings on wingtips as shown.

0 0 Jewel beetle

Jewel beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 16-18 millimeters long, elytra (wing covers) tapered as shown.

0 0 Two-spotted Lady Beetle

Two-spotted Lady Beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 4-5 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

0 0 Figitid wasp

Figitid wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Roughly 2-3 millimeters in length.

0 0 Mason wasp (male)

Mason wasp (male)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Roughly 8 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. Hooked tips on the ...

0 0 Ichneumon wasp

Ichneumon wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 15-18 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

1 1 Gall wasp (female)

Gall wasp (female)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 3 millimeters in body length, wingless.

1 0 Ichneumon wasp

Ichneumon wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 20-24 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

0 0 Locust Sawfly

Locust Sawfly

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 7-8 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

0 0 Solitary wasp

Solitary wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 5 millimeters in body length, very slender.

2 1 Jewel beetle

Jewel beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Roughly 15-18 millimeters in body length, metallic green with ivory markings as ...

1 0 Pine Squirrel

Pine Squirrel

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Medium-sized, arboreal squirrel, dark on top, white underneath as shown. ...

1 0 lady beetle

lady beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Small, black with blue eyes and yellow spots on elytra (wing covers).

0 0 Solitary wasp

Solitary wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 6 millimeters in body length, black with ivory or yellowish markings as ...

0 0 Aphid wasp

Aphid wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 5-7 millimeters in body length. Note white "lip" and jaws.

0 0 Giraffe

Giraffe

by MakalaKnoxColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

There were so many Giraffes that you were sure to have one come to you. They ...

1 0 Parenthesis Lady Beetle

Parenthesis Lady Beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Distinctive markings on elytra (wing covers) make this an easy species to ...

1 0 Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle

Fifteen-spotted Lady Beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 7-9 millimeters in body length, nearly circular in shape, and colored as ...

2 1 Mason wasp

Mason wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 15-17 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

0 0 Ichneumon wasp

Ichneumon wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Large, 25-28 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. This is a ...

0 3 Eurytomid wasp (female)

Eurytomid wasp (female)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 3 millimeters in body length, winged.

0 0 Mason wasp

Mason wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 7-9 millimeters in body length, colored as shown.

0 0 Perilampid wasp

Perilampid wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Roughly 3 millimeters in body length, vividly metallic in color as shown.

1 1 Pygmy Nuthatch

Pygmy Nuthatch

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About the size of a chickadee, dark gray and brown on top, white beneath.

0 0 Mossy Rose Gall (wasp)

Mossy Rose Gall (wasp)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Gall looks like a pom-pom on stems of rose plants. These are very evident in ...

1 0 Carrot wasp (female)

Carrot wasp (female)

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 30 millimeters in length, ovipositor included. Note pronounced "neck" ...

3 0 Two-tailed Swallowtail

Two-tailed Swallowtail

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Very large butterfly, overall yellow in color with very thin black stripes. ...

0 0 Flower fly

Flower fly

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Superb bumble bee mimic. Hairy, with spot in middle of each wing.

0 0 Flower longhorned beetle

Flower longhorned beetle

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Roughly 17 millimeters long, brown covered in bright golden hairs (overcast and ...

0 0 Square-headed wasp

Square-headed wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 10-12 millimeters in body length, large for the genus. Colored as shown.

0 0 Pollen wasp

Pollen wasp

by BugEricColorado Springs, Colorado, USA

About 20 millimeters in body length, colored as shown. Note that the male has ...

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