•  Alderfly - (Sialis) - brown, lace-winged aquatic insect at Bear River MBR

• Carpenter Ant - (Camponotus) - at Strawberry Reservoir in Utah
• Citronella Ant - (Lasius latipes) - bright orange fuzzy ant in Millcreek, Utah 2016
  
• Mound-building Ant - (Formica -rufa group) - emerging females in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT
  
• Pavement Ant - (Tetramorium species-e) - winged male in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Velvet Ant - see Wasps 
  

 Aphids

• Woolly Aphid - (Eriosomatinae) - tiny fuzzy white winged insect giving birth
  

Beetles

• Ant Eater Scarab Beetle - (genus Cremastocheilus) - in Mercur Canyon, Tooele County, UT  6-11-2018
  
• Aquatic Leaf Beetle - (genus Plateumaris) - black beetle in the Jordanelle wetlands
  
• Aquatic Leaf Beetle - (genus Plateumaris) - beautiful metallic brown beetle in the Jordanelle wetlands
• Backswimmer - (Notonecta unifasciata) - on Antelope Island
  
• Beetle Larva - (possible Elateridae) - skinny, worm-like beetle larva in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Beetle Larvae - three different larvae in Utah
• Blister Beetles
  
• Blister Beetle - (Epicauta) - gray beetles near St. George, Washington County, Utah 10-18-2008, 10-6-2009
• Blister Beetle - (Epicauta wheeleri) - gray & gold beetles in St. George, Wash. County, UT  10-8-2018
• Blister Beetle - (Epicauta wheeleri) - gray & gold beetles & mating pairs near St. George, UT 10-6-2009, 10-6-2009
  
• Blister Beetle - (Epicauta pennsylvanica) - "Black Blister Beetle" at Strawberry Reservoir, Utah Cnty, Utah
• Blister Beetle - (Epicauta puncticollis) - fuzzy black beetle at Powder Mountain in Weber Cnty, Utah
• Blister Beetle - (Gnathium minimum) - tiny brown beetles on sunflowers on Antelope Island
  
• Blister Beetle - (Lytta arizonica) - orange and black beetles mating on wildflowers in Nevada.
• Blister Beetle - (Nemognatha) - orange beetle found mostly on Sunflower - Antelope Island 7-2009, 8-2016
  
• Blister Beetle - (Pleuropasta mirabilis) - red and cream beetle with jagged horizontal line (Nevada)
  
• Blister Beetle - (Zonitis sayi ) - golden beetle on Antelope Island, Farmington Bay & Jordanelle wetlands
• Blister Beetle - (Zonitis bilineata) - orange, beige and black insect in Taylorsville, tah
• Carpet Beetles
• Carpet Beetle - (Anthrenus fuscus) - tiny brown beetle with light stripes in Taylorsville, Utah 5-25-2009
  
• Carpet Beetle "Varied Carpet Beetle " -  (Anthrenus verbasci) - brown & white beetle, Taylorsville, Utah 5-31-2008
• Carpet Beetle - (Anthrenus lepidus) - swarms on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT  5-13-2009, 5-31-2009
  
• Carpet Beetle - (Desrmesstes caninus) - gray and black beetle on Antelope Island 9-16-2009
  
• Carpet Beetle - (Dermestes frischi) - gray and black beetle with a white bell, Antelope Is., UT 4-28-2010
• Carpet Beetle (Larder Beetle) - (Lardarius) - dark beetle with a light mid-stripe at Strawberry Res., UT 6-23-2012
  
• Chafers
• Bumble Flower Beetle - (Euphoria inda) - at Red Butte Garden and the Salt Lake valley 8-18-2014
• Green June Beetle - (Cotinis mutabilis) - also known as Figeater Beetle, Green Fruit Beetle - So. Utah 9-21-2015
• Hairy Flower Chafer - (Trichiotinus assimilis) - black & white beetle in Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT 6-22-2017
  
• Shining Leaf Chafer - (Cotalpa flavida) - large yellow beetles in trees at Lytle Ranch, Wash. Cnty., UT 4-18-2015
  
• Shining Leaf Chafer   - (Paracotalpa granicollis) - at Red Butte Gardens in SLC, UT 5-7-2006
• Shining Leaf Chafer - "little bear" - ( Paracotalpa granicollis) - hairy beetle on Antelope Island 5-5-2011
• Click Beetle - (Elateridae) - brown clicking beetle in Taylorsville, Utah
• Darkling Beetles - (Eleodes obscurus) - large black beetle in Zion NP and one on Antelope Island
• Darkling Beetle - (tribe Edrotini) - small purplish-red beetle at Bear River MBR
• Darkling Beetle - (Eusattus muricatus) - roundish black beetle in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah 5-2011
• Darkling Beetle "Dark Mealworm" - (Tenebrio obscurus) - in Salt Lake County, Utah 7-2-2011
  
• Dung Beetles
  
• Dung Beetle - (Aphodius fimetarius) - red and black dung beetle found in dung on Antelope Island
• Dung Beetle - (Aphodius distinctus) - mottled brown dung beetles on Antelope Island - 2009, 2016
• Dung Beetle - (Aphodius pumilio) - tiny black and brown beetle in Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Dung Beetle - (Scarabaeinae) - rolling the dung at Strawberry Reservoir
• False Blister Beetle  (Asclera excavata) - red and blueish-black beetle at Powder Mountain UT
  
• Fire-Colored Beetle - (genus Pedilus) - male black beetle at Pineview Reservoir, Weber Cnty, UT
  
• Firefly - (Lampyridae Pyropyga nigricans )  - black and red flying beetle in Taylorsville, UT (yes, a real firefly)
• Ground Beetles
  
• Ground Beetle - (Agonum ferruginosum) - small brown beetle on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty., UT 5-2015
  
• Ground Beetle - (Calosoma luxatum) - small shiny rotund beetle on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 2-25-2016
• Ground Beetle - (genus Amara - "sun beetles") - colorful seed-eating beetle Kane County, Utah 5-27-2011
  
• Ground Beetle - (Lebia vittata) - red beetle with black & white stripes at Strawberry Res, Wasatch Cnty. 8-27-2009
  
• Ground Beetle - (Carabus nemoralis) - blue-black beetle, 3 photos in Taylorsville, Ut  7-8-2007, 5-29-2009
• Ground Beetle - (genus Scarites subterraneus) - predatory, blue-black, scary-looking beetle in St. George, Ut 4-27-2012
  
• Ground Beetle "Seedcorn Beetle" - (Stenolophus anceps) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT 4-22-2009
  
• June Beetle - "ten-lined june beetle" - (Polyphylla decemlineata) - on Antelope Island © Wendy Wilson, 2013
  
• June Beetle a.k.a. June Bug - (Polyphylla decemlineata) - striped beetle in Taylorsville, Utah
• Klamath Weed Beetle - (Chrysolina quadrigemina) - lady-bug like black beetle in Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Leaf Beetle - (Clytrini) - casebearer beetle - tiny black beetle with red shoulders at Strawberry Res., Wasatch Cnty., UT
  
• Leaf Beetle - (Coleothorpa) - tiny gray, case-bearing leaf beetle with red shoulders in Herriman, Salt Lake County, Utah
• Leaf Beetle (Skeletonizing) - (Galeruca costatissima) - black, orange-bordered beetle in Utah County 9-2017
  
• Leaf Beetle - (Trirhabda) - in Kolob Canyons Overlook in Zion NP, Washington County, UT
• Leaf Beetle - possible"Imported Willow Leaf Beetle" - (Plagiodera versicolora) - found along the Green River by Helen Howard, 2014
• Leaf Beetle (Skeletonizing) - (Erynephala puncticollis) - "beet leaf beetle" - golden beetle on Antelope Island
• Leaf Beetle (Skeletonizing) - (genus Monoxia) - very small, brown-striped leaf beetle on Antelope Island, 2016
• Leaf Beetle - (Zygogramma continua) - striped beetle on the Nebo Loop, Utah County, UT  8-5-2018
  
• Long-horned Beetles (borers)
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Batyle suturalis) - red and black beetles on Sundancer Daisy in southern Utah
• Long-horned Beetle - (Brothylus gemmulatus) - oak-boring, brown spotted beetle in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Lepturobosca chrysocoma) - beetle at Powder Mtn. Ski Resort, Weber County, UT 8-2-2009
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Crossidius coralinus parviceps) - red and black beetle at Promontory Point, UT 9-2008
• Long-horned Beetle - (Crossidius hirtipes wickhami) - black &orange beetle at Strawberry Res., UT 9-2008
• Long-horned Beetle - (Crossidius pulchellus) - orange beetle on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah 10-10-2010
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Crossidius suturalis) - orange and black beetle on Antelope Island, 8-2009
  
• Long-horned Beetle  - (Gnathacmaeops pratensis) - at Provo River falls in the Uinta Mountains
• Long-horned Beetle - (Judolia montivagans) - patterned flower longhorn in Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT  7-11-2018
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Etorofus propinquus aka Leptura propinqua) - brown beetle in Summit County, Utah 7-2017
  
• Long-horned Beetle "Locust Borer" - (Megacyllene robiniae) - found drinking sap on a dying tree in Sugar House, Utah
• Long-horned Beetle - (Monochamus scutellatus) - black & white spotted beetle with long antennae at Brighton, Utah
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Neospondylis upiformis) - large black beeetle with large jaws at Strawberry Res., Utah
• Long-horned Beetle grub - (Prionus californicus) - the stuff of nightmares eating roots of Gambel Oak.
  
• Long-horned Beetle "Poplar Borer" - (Saperda calcarata) - yellow beetle with black spots in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Stenocorus nubifer) - brown & black beetle at Pineview Res., Weber County, UT 6-16-2012
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Stenosphenus debilis) - orange beetle with long antennae in Taylorsville, UT 8-2008, 2009
  
• Long-horned Beetle - (Trachysida mutabilis) - black beetle with a white belly in Brighton, Utah
  
• Long-horned Beetle - "Red-headed Ash Borer - (Neoclytus acuminatus ) - climbing around some cuttings in Taylorsville, UT
• Long-horned Beetle - (Megacyllene antennata) - black or brown and white mesquite or cat's claw borer in Henderson, NV
• May Beetle - (genus Phyllophaga) - brown scarab beetle found in the spring in Utah yards
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetles
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetles   (Acmaeodera) - two different species in Sevier County, Utah
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - (Acmaeodera diffusa) - three in Wasatch County, Utah
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - (Acmaeodera knowltoni) - black beetle with gold spots in Sevier County, UT
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - (Anthaxia) - at Payson Lakes in Utah County
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - (Agrilus walsinghami ) - 2 pages of the beetles on Antelope Island
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle - (Buprestis confluenta) - bright green and yellow beetle by Jordanelle Dam
  
• Metallic Wood-boring Beetle "Flatheaded Conifer Borer" - (Dicerca tenebrose) - Big Cottonwood Cnyn, SL Cnty 6-20-2018
  
• No 10 beetle - in Southern Utah
• Northern Carrion Beetle - (Thanatophilus lapponicus) - with mites, in Tooele County and Wasatch County, Utah 2011, 2017
  
• Ornate Checkered Beetles - (Trichodes ornatus) - four beetles, four different colors
• Predacious Diving Beetle - (family Dytiscidae) - black or brown beetle with strange legs at Bear River MBR
  
• Red-femured Milkweed Borer - (Tetraopes femoratus) - at Bear River MBR & Antelope Island
• Rove Beetle - "Spiny-legged Rove Beetle" (genus Bledius) - small black, yellow and red beetle on Antelope Island
  
• Rove Beetle - (Philonthus aurulentus) - on Antelope Island.
• Rove Beetle (Large) - (Tasgius ater) - black winged beetle at Bear River MBR & Taylorsville, UT
• Seed Beetle - (Stator limbatus) - in Clark County, NV
• Soldier Beetle - (Chauliognathus fasciatus) - yellow and black beetle near St. George, Utah
• Soft-winged Flower Beetles
• Soft-Winged Flower Beetle - (Anthocomus equestris) - tiny red and black bug in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Soft-winged Flower Beetle - two different species, three photos:  St. George & Antelope Island
• Soft-winged Flower Beetle II - (Collops) - in Kolob near Cedar City, Utah
• Soft-winged Flower Beetle - (genus Malachius ) - at Locomotive Springs, Utah
  
• Scarlet Malachite Beetle - (Malachius aeneus) - in Davis & Wasatch counties.
  
• Two-spotted Melyrid - (Collops bipunctatus) - red and blue beetle with two black spots at Bear River MBR
  
• Sunflower Beetle - (Zygogramma exclamationis) - tan beetle with brown stripes at Bear River MBR
  
• Tamarisk Leaf Beetle - (Diorhabda elongata) - in St. George, Utah
• Tiger Beetles
  
• Tiger Beetle - (Cicindela albissima) - Coral Pink Sand Dunes Tiger Beetle in Kane County, UT
• Tiger Beetle - Cicindela nebraskana - brown beetle with a gold nose in the mountains by Heber City, UT
  
• Tiger Beetle - (Cicindela orgeona) - on the sands of Antelope Island. © Carol Davis 10-16-2010
  
• Tiger Beetle - (Cicindela purpurea) - on Antelope Island
• Tiger Beetle - (Cicendela purpurea) - male and female mating pair on Antelope Island
• Tiger Beetle "Wetsalts Tiger Beetle" - (Cicindela haemorrhagica) - dark beettle with cream-colored patches
  
• Three-lined Potato Beetle - (Lema daturaphila) - yellow, orange & black beetle in Snow Canyon State park
  
• Three-lined Potato Beetle Larva - (Lema daturaphila) - yellow-green larva carrying feces on its back, Wash. Cnty, UT
  
• Tumbling Flower Beetle - (Mordellidae) - "pintail beetle" at Pineview Res. & on Antelope Island
  
• Water Scavenger Beetle - (Hydrobius fuscipes) - in the snow in February on Antelope Island 
  

Bees

• Alkali Bee - Sweat Bee - - (Nomia melanderi) - black and yellow bee on Rocky Mtn. Bee Plant, Ant. Islan
• Bumble Bees
  
• Bumble Bee "California" - (Bombus californicus) - female on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT
  
• Bumble Bee "White-shouldered" - (Bombus appositus) - female by Strawberry Res., Wasatch Cnty, Utah 7-24-2011
  
• Bumble Bee "White-shouldered" - (Bombus appositus) - male at Soldier Creek., Wasatch Cnty. UT 8-6-2014
  
• Bumble Bee - (Bombus - species unknown) - possible Eastern Bombus at the Jordanelle Wetlands 9-14-2008
  
• Bumble Bee "Fernald's" - (Bombus fernaldae) - black and yellow cuckoo bumble bee, Jordanelle Dam wetlands 5-2007
  
• Bumble Bee "Forest Bumble Bee" - (Bombus sylvicola) - orange, yellow and black bee in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
• Bumble Bee "Golden Northern" - (Bombus fervidus) - yellow bumble bees nesting in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Bumble Bee "Golden Northern"  - (Bombus fervidus) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
  
• Bumble Bee "Hunt's" - (Bombus huntii) -  orange, yellow and black bumble bee on Antelope Island
  
• Bumble Bee "Hunt's" - (Bombus huntii ) - yellow bumble bee with orange and black at the Jordanelle Wetlands
• Bumble Bee "Great Basin" - (Bombus centralis) - yellow, black and orange bee at the Jordanelle Wetlands
• Bumble Bee " Brown-belted" - (Bombus griseocollis) - atypical colored male at Red Butte Garden, SLC
  
• Bumble Bee "Brown-belted" - (Bombus griseocollis) - black and yellow bee with a brown band at Red Butte Garden, SLC
  
• Bumble Bee "Morrison's" - (Bombus morrisoni) - mostly yellow bumble bee in Tooele and Salt Lake Counties
  
• Bumble Bee "Nevada" - (Bombus nevadensis) - large yellow and black bee in Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
  
• Bumble Bee "Black-notched" - (Bombus bifarius) - small female yellow, orange and black bumble bee at Strawberry Res.
• Bumble Bee "Sonoran" - (Bombus sonorus) -  at Tonaquint Nature Park in St. George, Ut
• Bumble Bee "Western Yellow-banded" - (Bombus occidentalis) - in the Unitas and Strawberry Res. Utah 2014, 2015
  
• Carpenter Bee - (Xylocopa tabaniformis androleuca) - all black female at Red Butte Garden, SLC. Utah
  
• Carpenter Bee - (Xylocopa tabaniformis androleuca) - big-eyed black and tan male at Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
• Cellophane Bee - (Colletes phaceliae) - striped yellow bee on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah  10-2017
  
• Cellophane Bee - (genus Colletes) - small fuzzy bee with clear wings on Antelope Island, 10-2009, 10-2016
• Cuckoo Bee
  
• Cuckoo Bee - (Nomadinae) -  black and yellow wasp-like bee at Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, Utah 7-2011
  
• Cuckoo Bee - (Epeolus novomexicanus) - female gray and black striped bee on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, Utah 10-26-2008
• Cuckoo Bee - (Epeolus novomexicanus) - striped bees hanging around Sand Wasp nests on Antelope Island, 9-27-2016
  
• Cuckoo Bee - (genus Nomada) - yellow and black bee with orange and black antennae & orange wings, Ant. Is., 2017
  
• Cuckoo Bee - (genus Nomada) - red or orange parasitic bee at Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah (2016)
  
• Cuckoo Bee - (genus Nomada) - orange parasitic bee at the Jordanelle wetland
• Cuckoo Bee - (Nomada edwardsii group) - yellow bee with black stripes at Red Butte Gardens
• Cuckoo Bee - (Nomada vegana group) - yellow and black bee with green eyes on Antelope Island
• Cuckoo Bee - (genus Triepeolus) - black and white striped bee on Antelope island, Davis Cnty., Utah
  
• Digger Bee
  
• Digger-Bee Cuckoo - (Pacifica fulvida or thoracica) - black bee with dark orange fuzz at Lava Point, ZNP, Utah
  
• Digger Bee with Oil Beetle larvae - bee with larvae crawling on its back at Strawberry Res., Wasatch Cnty., Utah 7-24-2011
  
• Digger Bee - (Diadasia subgenus Coquillettapis) - small black & white bee with blue-gray eyes, Ant. Isl. 5-30-2017
  
• Digger Bee  - (Diadasia enavata) - brown, very hairy ground-nesting bee at Promontory Point, Utah
  
• Digger Bee - "Sunflower Chimney Bee" - (Diadasia enavata) - gorgeous large brown bee at Promontory Point, UT 8-2010
• Digger Bee - (Anthophora urbana) - hairy little big-eyed bee in Mercur Canyon, Tooele, County, UT, 2016
  
• Digger Bee - (Centris - subgenus Paracentris) - hairy, stocky, black and gold bee near Lytle Ranch, UT
  
• Digger Bee - (Ericrocis lata) - black and white striped "cuckoo bee" on the road to Lytle Ranch, Washington Cnty, Utah
  
• Globe Mallow Bee - (Diadasia diminuta) - busy little bees building nests in Kolob
  
• Globe Mallow Bee turrets - (Diadasia diminuta) - tiny sand castles surrounding nests of these bees
• Honey Bee - (Apis mellifera) - golden honey bees in Utah
• Leaf-cutter Bees & Mason Bees (Megachilidae)
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (genus Anthidium) - black & white bee with green eyes at Jordanelle Dam wetlands
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee " Wool Carder Bee " - (Anthidium manicatum) - male and female in Taylorsville, Utah 2016, 2017
• Red-footed Cuckoo-leaf-cutter Bee - (Coelioxys rufitarsis) - black & white cuckoo bee with green eyes at Red Butte Gardens
• Leaf-cutter Bee "Cuckoo" - (genus Coelioxys subg. Xerocoelioxys) - red-legged, green-eyed bee on Antelope Island 8-16-2017
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile inermis) - black and white bee (with a hidden head) in Wasatch County 
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile parallela) - striped green-eyed pollinator on Antelope Island, Utah
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile parallela) - cute "Mighty Mouse" bee at Red Butte Gardens, SLC, Utah
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile subgenus Eutricharaea) - small green-eyed bee, Taylorsville, UT 8-2017
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile subgenus Megachiloides) - in St. George, Washington County, Utah 10-9-2018
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (genus Hoplitis) - on the road to Lytle Ranch, Washington County, UT
• Leaf-cutter Bee "Black-and-gray Leafcutter" - (Megachile melanophaea) - in Big Cottonwood Cnyn, Utah 7-11-2018
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee "Pugnacious Leaf-cutter Bee" - (Megachile pugnata) - black and white bee at Jordanelle Dam wetlands
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile) - beautiful little bee unable to fly at Strawberry Reservoir, UT
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee -(subgenus Megachile) - hairy-faced bee at Pineview Reservoir
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (Megachile melanophaea) - "Black-and-Gray Leafcutter"Big Cottonwood Cnyn, SL County, UT  7-11-2018
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee "Western Leafcutter" - (Megachile perihirta) - mustached, fuzzy bees in Salt Lake County, UT 7-11-2018
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee - (subgenus Xanthosarus) - pollen-covered yellow and black bee in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Leaf-cutter Bee Nests - plugs found in nesting tubes  
• Mason Bee - (genus Osmia) - two blue-black bees in the purple flowers of Red Butte Garden, SLC 2015
  
• Mason Bee - (genus Osmia) - blue-black, stocky bee with a gold diamond on its forehead - Red Butte Gardens, SLC
• Mason Bee - (tribe Osmiini) - small blue-black bee in Big Cottonwood Cnyn, Salt Lake County, UT   7-2017
  
• Mason Bee - (subgenus Cephalosmia) - good-sized, hairy, black, vibrating bee on the road to Powder Mtn., Weber Cnty, UT
  
• Long-horned Bee - (Eucerini) - bee on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
• Long-horned Bee - (genus Melissodes) - hairy orange bee with long antennae on Antelope Island, Utah, 9-2016
  
• Long-horned Bee - (genus Melissodes) - beautiful, fuzzy, big-eyed bee at Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Metallic Green Bee - (genus Agapostemon) - near some flowers on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
  
• Metallic Green Bee - (genus Agapostemon) - four photos at Taylorsville, Bear River and Antelope Island
• Mining Bees
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Andrena) - red-orange bee on the Provo Airport Dike, Utah Cnty., UT 5-2017
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Andrena) - big-eyed bee with a fringed abdomen at Red Butte Garden, 2015
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Andrena) - black and yellow hairy bee at Red Butte Garden
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Andrena) - tiny, fuzzy bee on Biscuitroot on Antelope Island
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Andrena) - furry cool-weather pollinators on Antelope Island
  
• Mining Bee - (genus Melandrena or Tylandrena) - shiny black, hairy bee at Strawberry Reservoir, UT
  
• Mining Bee - (Andrena prunorum) - hairy yellow and black bee on Antelope Island
• Mining Bee - (Andrena pronorum) - colorful bee with long slender wings on Ant. Island
• Mining Bee - (Andrena transnigra) - attractive solitary bee sporting a boa in Brighton, Utah
• Mining Bee - (Pseudopanurgus aethiops) - small black and yellow hairy bee on Antelope Island 
• Mining Bee - (Pseudopanurgus aethiops) - small black bee with yellow face and legs on Antelope Island
  
• Resin Bee - (Dianthidium curvatum sayi) - brown, black and yellow bee on Antelope Island
  
• Resin Bee - (Dianthidium) - 3 photos of resin bees and 2 pebble nests on Antelope Is. 2008, 2009, 2015, 2018
• Resin Bee - (Megachile subgenus Chelostomoides) - small bee on Nebo Loop, Utah County, Utah 8-5-2018
  
• Sweat Bees
  
• Sweat Bee - (genus Dieunomia) - black and white bee with patterned wings on Ant. Island, 2016
  
• Sweat Bee - (Dieunomia nevadensis arizonensis) - orange and black bee on Antelope Island, 2012, 2016
  
• Sweat Bee - (Halictus farinosus) - on the road to Powder Mtn., Weber County, Utah 7-8-2013
  
• Sweat Bee - (Halictus ligatus) - tiny bee with gold legs on catnip in Taylorsville, Utah 9-8-2015
  
• Sweat Bee - (Halictus rubicundus) - tiny striped bee in Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah 10-21-2011
  
• Sweat Bee - (Lasioglossum semicaeruleum) - three photos of tiny gray bees from Antelope Island, UT
  
• Sweat Bee - (Lasioglossum sisymbrii) - tiny bee with damaged wing on Antelope Island in March
  
• Sweat Bee - possibly Lasioglossum zephyrum - tiny ant-like bee in Taylorsville, Utah
• Sweat Bee - Alkali Bee - (Nomia melanderi) - black and yellow bee on Rocky Mtn. Bee Plant, Ant. Island
  

Bristletails  

• Bristletails - (Microcoryphia) - on Antelope Island, Utah

Bugs  

• Ambush Bugs
  
• Ambush Bug & a Cuckoo Wasp - in each other's grasp
• Ambush Bug - (Phymata americana coloradensis) - at the Jordan Water Conservancy garden.
  
• Ambush Bug - (Phymaticae phymata) - Jagged Ambush Bug at Bear River MBR
• Ambush Bug - (Phymaticae phymata) - two immature - at Bear River MBR
• Ambush Bug - poem and photos of mature bugs with Native American headdresses
• Aphids - four photos in Taylorsville, UT
• Assassin Bugs
  
• Assassin Bug hatching - (Reduviidae) - nymphs hatching out on Antelope Island
• Assassin Bug nymphs - (family Reduviidae ) - nymphs and new hatchlings on Antelope Island
  
• Assassin Bug - (Rhynocoris ventralis) - 2 red, yellow and black assassins at Farmington Bay 8-24-2008
  
• Assassin Bug - (Apiomerus montanus ) - red and black assassins in Tooele & Salt Lake Counties 2018, 2008, 2016
  
• Assassin Bug - (Fitchia spinosula) - yellow assassin with a large black stripe on the abdomen, prev. ID'd as Fitchia aptera
  
• Assassin Bug dance - (Sinea anacantha) - dancing with a bee
  
• Assassin Bug - (Sinea anacantha) - spiny assassin with a bulbous beak on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty. UT 9-3-2010
• Assassin Bug - (Sinea diadema) - Spined Assassin Bug nymph on Antelope Island
• Assassin Bug - (Sinea diadema) - Spined Assassin Bug adult on Antelope Island, UT 9-13-2009, 9-26-2010, 9-4-2018
• Assassin Bug - (Zelus) - red and green assassin in Washington Cnty, Utah
  
• Assassin Bug nymph - (Zelus tetracanthus) -tiny gray nymph in mid-March in Taylorsville, UT 
  
• Assassin Bug - (Zelus tetracanthus) - 3 assassins on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah 7-23-2009, 8-26-2007
• Leafhopper Assassin Bug - (Zelus renardii) - near St. George, Washington Cnty, Utah 10-18-2008
• Masked Hunter nymph and adult - (Reduvius personatus) -3 photos in Taylorsville, UT
• Masked Hunter with Prey - (Reduvius personatus) - with Click Beetle prey in Taylorsville, Utah
• Thread-legged Assassin Bug - (Stenolemoides arizonensis) - praying mantis-like, long-legged insect on Antelope Island
  
• Backswimmer - (Notonecta unifasciata) - strange aquatic insect on Antelope Island  
• Big-eyed Bug ,Western - (Geocoris pallens) - black and tan predatory bug on Antelope Island, UT  3-2013
• Broad-headed Bug "Leatherbug" - (subfamily Alydinae) - in the Uintas, Summit County, UT 8-3-2017
  
• Damsel Bug - (Nabis) - in Taylorsville, UT and at Red Butte Gardens, SLC, UT
• Dirt-colored Seed Bug - (Ozophora) - brown and tan bug in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Ebony Bug - (Corimelaena) - black and red bug on red wildflowers at Payson Lakes
• Elm Seed Bug - (Arocatus melanocephalus) - small red and black bug in Taylorsville, SLC Cnty, Utah
  
• Firebug - (Pyrrhocoris apterus) - "red bug" - red and black beetle with two black spots on the abdomen
• Giant Water Bug - see "Water Bug"
  
• Leaf-footed Bugs
  
• Leaf-footed Bug "Cactus Coreid" - (Chelinidea vittiger) - mating pair in Mercur Canyon, Tooele County, Utah 2017
  
• Leaf-footed Bug "Cactus Coreid" - brown adults and green nymphs on Prickly Pear Cacti in Herriman, UT
  
• Leaf-footed Bug "Western Leaf-footed Bug" - (Leptoglossus clypealis) - in the desert at Promontory Point, Utah
• Leaf-footed Bug "Western Conifer Seed Bug " - (Leptoglossus occidentalis) - in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties
  
• Leaf-footed Bug - (Leptoglossus clypealis) - in Taylorsville, UT and on Antelope Island
  
• Plant Bugs
• Plant Bug "Yucca Plant Bug" - (halticotoma valida) - black and brown bug in the desert east of St. George
  
• Plant Bug - (Heterotoma meriopterus) - omnivorous plant bug in Taylorsville, UT
• Plant Bug - (Irbisia brachycera) - black grass bug with red "thighs" on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
  
• Plant Bug - (genus Labops) - stalk-eyed bug with light wing stripes at Bear River MBR, Utah 5-13-2012
  
• Plant Bug "Bordered Plant Bug" - (genus Largus) - near Pine Valley, Washington Cnty., Utah
• Plant Bug - (Lepidargyrus ancorifer) - big-eyed brown bug in Red Butte Garden, SL County, UT  7-17-2012
  
• Plant Bug - (Lopidea) - black and red beetle at Strawberry Reservoir
• Plant Bug - (Lygus nymph) - green nymph with five black spots and brownish wings
  
• Plant Bug - (Lygus) - brown bug with a green heart shape on its back at Bear River MBR
  
• Plant Bug - (Lygus) - brown plant bug in Taylorsville, Utah
• Plant Bug "Clouded Plant Bug" - (Neurocolpus nubilus) -  mottled brown & yellow bug in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Plant Bug - (Orthops) - near Pineview Res. and in Taylorsville, Utah
• Plant Bug - (Plagiognathus longipennis) - tan & green plant bug at Brighton, UT
• Plant Bug "Obscure Plant Bug" - (Plagiognathus obscurus) - at North Arm of Pineview reservoir
• Plant Bug - (Polymerus) - in Bryce Canyon National Park
• Plant Bug - (Slaterocoris atritibialis) - brownish-red-eyed bug found in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
• Plant Bug - (Stenodema trispinosum) - yellowish bug-eyed bug in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Scentless Plant Bugs
• Scentless Plant Bug - (genus Arhyssus ) - brown bug - two photos in Taylorsville, Utah
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Genus Harmostes) - flat yellow bug with long legs
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Harmostes) - green bug with orange legs, wings and antennae
  
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Liorhyssus hyalinus) - brown bug with red spots, Antelope Island & Taylorsville, Utah
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Rhopalini) - yellow-green bug with bulging eyes on Antelope Island
  
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Rhopalus tigrinus) - pretty, spotted brown bug dining out at Brighton, Utah
  
• Scentless Plant Bug - (Stictopleurus) - in Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Shield-backed Bug - (Homaemus) - brown bug with stab mark in the Jordanelle wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT
  
• Shield-backed Bug - (Scutelleridae tetyra) - mottled brown & black bug on Antelope Island, Utah
  
• Small Milkweed Bug - (Lygaeus kalmii) - adult and nymph resembling box elder bugs Antelope Island   
• Squash Bug - (Coreidae Anasa) - in a Southern Utah garden
• Stilt Bug - (genus Jalysus) - tiny, brown, stilt-legged bug in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Stilt Bug - (Neoneides muticus) - 2 photos in Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah
  
• Stink Bugs
  
• Stink Bug - (Aelia Americana) - brown and tan striped stink bug (with a funny nose) on Antelope Island
• Stink Bug - (Antheminia remota) - yellow and pinkish stink bug on Antelope Island
  
• Stink Bug - (Apoecilus cynicus) - beautiful orange predatory stink bug with prey at Strawberry Reservoir
• Stink Bug "Green Stink Bug" - (Chinavia hilaris) - huge green stink bug at Red Butte Garden & in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Stink Bug - (Perillus exaptus) - predatory black and red stink bug in the Jordanelle wetlands in Wasatch County, UT
• Stink Bug - (Banasa dimiata) - red-backed stink bug in Wasatch County, Utah
  
• Stink Bug - (Brochymena sulcata) - predatory gray and pink "tree stink bug" nymphs and adults in Taylorsville, Utah
• Stink Bug "Conchuela Bug" - (Chlorochroa ligata) - black and orange plant eater in Washington Cnty., Utah
• Stink Bug - (Coenus delius) - gray stink bug at Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
  
• Stink Bug (Say's) - (Chlorochroa ligata) - green and orange plant eater on Antelope Island & Kolob 2008
• Stink Bug - (Elasmostethus cruciatus) - Red-cross Shield bug aka "Parent Bug" at Strawberry Reservoir.
• Stink Bug "Brown Marmorated" - (Halyomorpha halys) - destructive bug in Red Butte Garden, SLC 8-2015
  
• Stink Bug - (Podisus placidus) - predatory orange and brown stink bug at the Jordanelle wetlands
• Stink Bug "Red-shouldered" - (Thyanta custator) - comes in a variety of colors at Red Butte & Antelope Island
  
• Stink Bug - (Menecles insertus) - gray stink bug in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Stink Bug - plant eater at Jordanelle Reservoir in Wasatch Count
• Stink Bug Nymph - (family Pentatomidae) - orange, cream & white bug in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
  
• "Tuxedo Bug" (seed bug) - (Raglius alboacuminatus) - black and white triangled bug in Taylorsville, Utah
• Water Boatmen -  (Corixidae) - in a pond on Antelope Island
• Water Bug - "Giant Water Bug" - huge brown bug with large pincers in Salt Lake County, UT
  
• Water Strider - (family Gerridae) - in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty., Utah
  
• Western Boxelder Bug - (Boisea rubrolineata) - nymph and adult
• White-crossed Seed Bug - (Neacoryphus bicrucis) - red and black bug with with a white cross at Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT

Caddisflies

• Caddisfly - (genus - Limnephilus) - in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
• Caddisfly - (genus Bracycentrus) - small brown caddisfly in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
  

Centipedes and Millipedes

• Centipede - (probably Geophilomorpha) - yellow centipede in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Centipede - (Chilopoda) - many-legged, brown insect in Taylorsville, Utah
• Millipede - (genus Brachyiulus) - brown, many-legged insect in Taylorsville, Utah
  

Cicadas

• Cicada - (Okanagana vanduzeei) - black and gold cicada at Promontory Point, Box Elder Cnty, UT 8-2-2011
• Cicada - (Platypedia putnami) - black and gold cicada at Zion National Park & Payson Lake, Utah Cnty. 2008-09
• Cicada - (Platypedia) - having just emerged from exuvia at Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT 5-28-2009
  
• Cicada - (Diceroprocta apache) - "citrus cicada" - loudest cicadas on Earth in St. George, Utah, July-Aug 2008
  
• Cicada - (Magicicada septendecim) - red-eyed beast with orange wings from Ohio 5-25-2006
• Cicada - (Tibicen_pruinosus) - "Scissors Grinder" in Gallatin, Missouri - photos by Joe Richardson 9-10-2011
  
• Noisy Cicada Consequences - how Northern Utah Cicadas learned to be more quiet (predators)
  

Cockroaches

• Cockroach - (Luridiblatta trivittata) - gold cockroach in a wetlands near Las Vegas Nevada
  

Earwigs

• European Earwig -  (Forficula auricularia) - in Taylorsville, Utah

Flies

• Bee Flies
  
• Bee Fly - genus Geron (video 1.3 MB) - tiny humpbacked bee fly with long proboscis
• Bee Fl y - (genus Anastoechus) - hairy gray fly on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT 10-21-12
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Anastoechus) - fuzzy mating pair in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah 8-26-2012
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Aphoebantus) - fly with tubular-shaped abdomen in Mercur Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT 9-1-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (Bombylius) - hovering fringed insect on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty., UT
• Bee Fly - (Dipalta serpentina) - bee fly with spotted wings at Burraston Ponds, Juab Cnty. UT 8-23-2018
  
• Bee Fly - (Exoprosopa dodrina) - a striped bee fly with a spot on each wing at Red Butte Garden, SLC 9-1-2010
• Bee Fly - (Exoprosopa dorcadion) - fly with chocolate-dipped wings at Jordanelle wetlands, Wasatch Cnty 8-5-2012
  
• Bee Fly - (Exoprosopa eremita) - fly with striped wings in Taylorsville, Burraston Ponds & Antelope Island 2016-2018
  
• Bee Fly - (Exoprosopa fascipennis) - male and female attempting to mate on Antelope Island, 7-30-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (Exoprosopa fascipennis) - orange and brown bee with patterned wings on Ant. Island 7-12-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (Hemipenthes) - brown fly with patterned wing at Brighton, Utah,7-13-2008
• Bee Fly "Sinuous Bee Fly" - (Hemipenthes sinuosa) - brown fly with patterned wings at Strawberry Res. 8-2016
  
• Bee Fly - (Heterostylum robustum) - "Bomber Fly" - pretty and noisy bee fly on the Nebo Loop, Utah Cnty. 7-2010
  
• Bee Fly - (possible  Lepidanthrax disjunctus) - spot-winged fly on Antelope. Is., Davis Cnty, UT 8-19-2012
  
• Bee Fly - (Lordotus striatus) - mating pair of different colors on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 9-7-2014
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Paravilla) - pointy-nosed fly with patterned wings near Promontory Point, UT 2012
  
• Bee Fly - (Paravilla syrtis) - bee fly with darkened orange wings in Taylorsville, Utah 5-28-2009
  
• Bee Fly - (Poecilanthrax) - orange and black bee fly with patterned wings, Jordanelle wetlands 8-21-2013
  
• Bee Fly - (Poecilognathus) - tan fly with spotted wings on Antelope Island, 8-14-2015
• Bee Fly - (Poecilanthrax californicus) - large bee fly in the desert near St. George. Utah 10-6-2009
  
• Bee Fly - (Poecilanthrax tegminipennis) - hairy brown bee fly on Antelope island 9-2-2008
  
• Bee Fly - (Poecilanthrax willistonii) - brown patterned-wing fly in Goshen Canyon, Utah 9-17-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Systoechus) - bi-colored brown and white bee fly in Big Cottonwood Canyon, UT 7-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Systoechus) - fuzzy yellow fly with a long snout at Bear River MBR
• Bee Fly - (Thevenetimyia) - tiny black bee fly with patterned wings at Brighton, Utah 7-13-2010
• Bee Fly - (Thyridanthrax atratus) - black fly with patterned wings on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 2017, 2018
• Bee Fly - (Thyridanthrax fenestratoides) - patterned-wing fly at Burraston Ponds, Juab Cnty, UT 8-23-2018
  
• Bee Fly - (Villa lateralis) - two forms in 4 photos in Taylorsville, Utah 8-7-2018, 8-9-2018
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Villa) - beautiful black & white bee fly near Mirror Lake, Summit County, UT 7-2017
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Villa) - striped bee fly in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Villa) - fuzzy fly with four spots in the yellow abdomen fringe
  
• Bee Fly - (genus Villa) - black and gray striped fly on Antelope Island
• Bee Fly - (genus Villa) - creamy yellow and black striped fuzzy fly in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Black Scavenger Fly - (genus Sepsis) - tiny black fly blowing a bubble on Antelope Island
  
• Blow Fly - Common Green Bottle fly - (Lucilia sericata) - on Antelope Island
• Bot Fly - "Deer Bot Fly" - genus Cephenemyia - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
  
• Cluster Fly - (Pollenia) - gold-speckled blow fly at Pineview Reservoir
  
• Crane Fly - at Payson Lakes and Taylorsville, UT
• Dance Fly "Hybotid Dance Fly" - (genus Platypalpus) - tiny Robber-fly-like dancing fly in Taylorsville, UT
  
• Deer Fly  - (Chrysops discalis) -mating pair and two other photos on Antelope Island
• Deer Fly II - (Chrysops callidus) - on Antelope Island
• Dung Fly "Golden Dung Fly" - (Scathophaga stercoraria) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah 4-2007, 4-2017
  
• Face Fly - (Musca autumnalis) - horse-and-cattle-annoying flies at Garr Ranch on Antelope Island
  
• Fireflies - see Beetles
• Flesh Fly - (Sarcophaga) - black and gray carrion-eating fly in Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
  
• Frit Fly - (Thaumatomyia) - tiny grass-eating or aphid-eating striped fly in Taylorsville, Utah -
• Fruit Fly
  
• Fruit Fly "Apple Maggot Fly" - (Rhagoletis pomonella) - black fly with striped wings and blue eyes
  
• Fruit Fly - (Tephritis webbii) - at Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, UT
• Fruit Fly - (Neotephritis finalis) - mating threesome on Antelope Island
  
• Fruit Fly - (Paracantha) - on Antelope Island
  
• Fruit Fly - (Trupanea nigricornis) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
• Fruit Fly - (Urophora cardui) - "Canada Thistle Stem Gall Fly" - colorful fly at Pineview Res., Weber Cnty, UT 6-2018
  
• Horse Fly -" Western Greenhead" - large biting fly with green eyes at Bear River MBR
  
• Horse Fly - Western   - (Tabanus punctifer) - lounging on grass at Bear River MBR, Box Elder County, Utah
• Lauxaniidae Fly - (genus Homoneura) - yellow fly with black wing spots in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Long-legged Fly - (Genus Scellus) - with spotted wings - on Antelope Island
• Long-legged Fly - (Consylostylus) - green iridescent fly in Taylorsville, Utah
• March Fly - (Bibionidae ) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
• March Fly - (Bibionidae)   - just having emerged from soil near Promontory Point. Also more from Bear River MBR
• Marsh Fly - (Dictya) - speckled black fly in Salt Lake County, Utah
  
• Marsh Fly - (genus Sepedon) - a reddish snail-eating fly at Bear River MBR, Box Elder Cnty, UT
  
• Midge - (Alotanypus venustus) - stripe-winged midge at Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT 8-2011
  
• Midge - (Chironomidae) - on Antelope Island, Utah 2007, 2008
• Mosquito "Western Encephalitis Mosquito" - (Culex tarsalis) - in Taylorsville, UT 3-2009
  
• Narcissus Bulb Fly - see Syrphid Flies (Merodon Equestris)
  
• Net-winged Midge - (genus Blepharicera) - beautiful midge below Jordanelle Dam in Wasatch Count
• Picture-winged Fly - (genus Ceroxys latiusculus) - pattern-winged fly with a striped body at Bear River MBR
  
• Picture-winged Fly - (genus Chaetopsis) - fly with striped wings at Jordanelle wetlands
• Picture-winged Fly - (genus Physiphora) - brown male fly waving its legs in the air on Antelope Island, Davis, UT
  
• Picture-winged Fly - (genus Tritoxa cuneata) - brownish-red fly with striped wings at Strawberry Res., Utah 7-2-2014
  
• Robber Flies
  
• Robber Fly - (family Asilidae) - hovering with prey in Eureka, Utah County, UT  8-28-2018
  
• Robber Fly - (species unknown) - short, silver-striped species in Mercur Canyon, Ut 6-2017
  
• Robber Fly "Deadly Embrace" - one robber fly preying on another on Antelope Island
• Bee-like Robber Fly - (Laphria fernaldi) - eating an insect in Summit County, Utah, 2017
  
• Bee-like Robber Fly - (Laphria fernaldi) - male bumble-bee-like fly in Weber County, UT, 2014
  
• Bee-like Robber Fly - (Laphria fernaldi) - female bumble-bee-like yellow & black fly in Wasatch Cnty, UT, 2012
  
• Robber Fly vs. the Spider - battle over a poor dragonfly
• Robber Fly - (genus Metadioctria) - tiny robber fly dining on an even tinier parasitic wasp near Lytle Ranch in Utah
• Robber Fly - genus Cyrtopogon - black hairy hunter in the fields around Strawberry Reservoir
  
• Robber Fly "Hanging Thief" vs Wasp - wasp fights for its life on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 8-19-2018
  
• Robber Fly "Hanging Thief" - (Diogmites angustipennis) - on Antelope Island hunting wasps and deer flies, 7-2017
  
• Robber Fly "Hanging Thief" mating pairs - many pairs & singles at Promontory Point, Utah 8-2017
  
• Robber Fly  "HangingThief" - (Diogmites angustipennis) - on Antelope Island &Promontory Point, 9-2018, 8-2016
  
• Robber Fly "Hanging Thief " - (Diogmites angustipennis ) - orange robber fly with green eyes on Antelope Island
• Hanging Thief" Robber Fly - (Diogmites angustipennis) - hunting in the grasses of Antelope Island
• Robber Fly - (genus Efferia) - golden Robber Fly near Lytle Ranch, Washington County, Utah
• Robber Fly - (Ospriocerus aeacus) - black & red robbers, Eureka, Juab County, Utah  8-28-2018
  
• Robber Fly - (Ospriocerus aeacus) - black and red mating pair at Promontory Point, Box Elder Cnty, UT 8-20-2017
  
• Robber Fly - (genus Promachus) - white-tailed robber in Mercur Canyon, Tooele Cnty, UT 9-2017
  
• Robber Fly - (Promachus - species albifacies or nigrialbus) - with white-tipped abdomen on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT
• Robber Fly - (genus Stichopogon) - tiny, tiny robber fly on Antelope Island
  
• Robber Fly - (genus Stichopogon) - tiny robber fly with big eyes on Antelope Island
  
• Robber Fly - 2 pages of  photos at different locations
• Robber Fly Smarts - a tale of survival in the desert
• Root Maggot Fly - (Anthomyia procellaris) - spotted female fly in Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
  
• Satellite Fly - (subfamily Miltogramminae) - tiny cleptoparasitic flies at Strawberry Reservoir
• Shore Fly - "Brine Fly" - (genus Ephydridae) - a brown and and black Brine Fly on Antelope Island, 2011, 2017
  
• Small-headed Fly - (Turbopsebius diligens) - small black fly in the grasp of a flower crab spider
  
• Small-headed Fly - (Ogcodes rufoabdominalis) - orange and black fly laying eggs at Bear River MBR 2013, 2015
  
• Snipe Fly "Rocky Mountain Bite Fly" - (genus Symphoromyia) - biting fly near Strawberry Res., Wasatch Cnty, UT
• Soldier Flies
  
• Soldier Fly - (Stratiomyidae) - possible Hedriodiscus truquii green fly in St. George, Wash. Cnty., UT  10-8-2018
  
• Soldier Fly - (Hedriodiscus binotatus) - green and black fly on Antelope Island, UT, 6-19-2009
  
• Soldier Fly - (Microchrysa polita) - tiny green fly with two yellow spots by the wings in Taylorsville, Utah 6-8-2014
  
• Soldier Fly - (genus Odontomyia ) - on Antelope Island and at Bear River MBR, 9-3-2013, 8-31-2006
  
• Stiletto Fly - (genus Nebritus tanneri) - striped brown fly in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Kane Cnty, Utah, 5-27-2011
  
• Stiletto Fly - (Thereva fucata) - gold fly with brown stripes on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT, 9-14-2014
  
• Stiletto Fly - (Therevidae) -  striped predator in Kolob Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah, 6-12-1009
  
• Stiletto Fly - (Genus Thereva) - fancy-winged, striped insect in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah, 6-22-2012
  
• Sun Fly - (family Heleomyzidae) - tiny fly with hairy wing edges found on Antelope Island in winter
  
• Syrphid Flies
• Syrphid Fly - (Allograpta obliqua) - beneficial yellow and black fly in Taylorsville and St. George, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Ceriana tridens) - in Salt Lake City, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (genus Chrysotoxum) - yellow and black striped fly in Summit County, Utah  8-2017
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Copestylum satur) - black or brown and yellow bee-like fly in Middle Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT 2017
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Eristalinus aeneus) - brown fly with spotted eyes on Antelope Island 5-2009, 4-2013, 10-2018
• Syrphid Fly - (Eristalis arbustorum) - at Red Butte Gardens, SLC, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Eristalis flavipes) -large black and yellow bumble bee mimic at the Jordanelle wetlands
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Eristalis stipator) - bee mimic with spotted wings on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Eristalis interrupta) - striped fly with fuzzy eyes in Wasatch County, Utah 7-16-2018
  
• Syprhid Fly - ( Eristalis tenax) - 4 photos from Antelope Island & Taylorsville, UT
• Syrphid Fly - (Eupeodes volucris)  - "Bird Hover Fly" - striped fly in Red Butte Garden &Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Eupeodes) - black and yellow fly in Taylorsville, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (genus Ferdinandea) - bronze fly at Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, Utah
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Helophilus latifrons) - crusty bee-like fly on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 10-21-2010
• Syrphid Fly - (Helophilus latifrons) - yellow and black fly on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT 10-3-2017, 10-28-2018
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Lejops curvipes) - black and red fly on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty., UT 10-2017
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Lejops subgenus Anasimyia) - striped black and cream colored fly in the Jordanelle & Ant. Island
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Lejops polygrammus) - patterned fly at Red Butte Gardens and Antelope Island
• Syprhid Fly - (Lejops polygrammus) - mating pair at Strawberry Reservoir, Wasatch County, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Mallota albipilis) - black and yellow fuzzy fly with smoky wing patches in Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah 2017
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Merodon equestris) - "Narcissus Bulb Fly" - large, hairy, golden fly that damages Narcissus bulbs
• Syrphid Fly - (Merodon equestris) - "Narcissus Bulb Fly" - another color variation at Red Butte Garden, SLC
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Paragus haemorrhous) - orange & black fly, whose larvae eat aphids, at Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Parhelophilus laetus) - bee-like fly captured by a crab spider in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
  
• Syrphid Fly - (genus Platycheirus) - orange and green fly with orange racing stripe in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands
• Syrphid Fly - (Scaeva pyrastri) - brown and white striped fly on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah, 2016
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Sphaerophoria philanthus) - yellow and brown (skinny) striped fly in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Sphaerophoria) - in the Jordanelle Wetlands, Wasatch County, Utah
• Syrphid Fly - (Spilomyia liturata) - yellow and black wasp-like, wing-waving fly in the Jordanelle wetlands 8-5-2011
• Syrphid Fly - (Syritta pipiens) - oblong fly with hefty thighs in Red Butte Gardens, Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Syrphud opinator) - female with long abdomen in Wasatch County, Utah 6-20-2018
  
• Syrphid Fly - (Temnostoma excentrica) - yellow and black wasp mimic mating pair in the Jordanelle dam wetlands
• Syrphid Fl y - (Toxomerus marginatus) - beneficial striped fly at Promontory Point
• Syrphid Fly Larva - (Syrphidae) - small, tan, caterpillar-like larva in  Taylorsville, UT
  
• Tachinid Flies
• Tachnid Fly - (Archytas or Tachina) - fuzzy-collared black fly at Strawberry Res., Wasatch Cnty, UT 8-27-2009
  
• Tachinid Fly - (Cylindromyia intermedia) - black & orange - Antelope Island & Red Butte Garden, 2016 , 2012
  
• Tachnid Fly - (genus Gonia) - brown-headed fly with stripes at Red Butte Garden & Antelope Island 2014, 2018
  
• Tachnid Fly - (genus Gymnoclytia) - pretty golden fly in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT 8-5-2012
  
• Tachinid Fly - (Gymnosoma) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah 6-22-2008
• Tachinid Fly - (Oestrophasia signifera) - orange parasitic fly in Taylorsville, Utah and on Antelope Island 6-2012
• Tachinid Fly - (genus Paradidyma singularis) - hairy brown and white striped fly on Antelope Island 9-26-2010
  
• Tachinid Fly - (Parepalpus flavidus) - orange fly with spiky abdomen at Pineview Res., Weber Cnty, UT 7-10-2011
• Tachinid Fly - (genus Peleteria or Deopalpus) - big hairy fly on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 10-28-2018
  
• Tachnid Fly - (genus Phasia) - tiny, large-headed parasitic fly on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty., UT 11-6-2014
  
• Tachinid Fly - (Tachinidae) - fly with stunted wings having just emerged from the pupa stage 6-26-2013
  
• Tachinid Fly - (Tachininae) - in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT 7-29-2007
• Tachinid Fly - (tribe Tachinini) - large spiky fly near Pine Valley, Washington County, Utah 9-20-2015
  
• Tachinid Fly - (tribe Voriini - Periscepsia or Wagneria) - small hyper parasitic fly in Taylorsville, UT  7-2017
  
• Tachinid Fly , Spiny - (Paradejeania rutilioides) - large orange fly in the Jordanelle wetlands 8-19-2009
• Thick-headed Fly - (Thecophora) - at Pineview Reservoir
• Thick-headed Fly - (Physocephala texana) - orange fly at Red Butte Garden and on Antelope Island, UT 7-2018, 6-2008
  
• Thick-headed Fly - (genus Zodion) - mating pair of fancy flies at Bear River MBR, Utah
  
• Vinegar Fly - (Chymomyza) - in Taylorsville, Utah

Galls, Eggs Sacs, Nests

• Jellybean Gall Midge gall - (Rhopalomyia glutinosa) - glossy lime green bud galls in Mercur Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT 4-25-2019
  
• Sawfly galls - (genus Pontania) - yellow sawfly galls on Willow leaves, Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT 8-4-2010
• Stem Gall Midge galls - (Rhopalomyia chrysothamni) - on Rabbit Brush stems in Mercur Canyon, Tooele County, UT 4-17-2017
• Rabbitbrush Gall "Spiny Cone Gall" - genus Rhopalomyia midge - in Mercur Canyon, Tooele County, Utah 4-12-2017
  
• Unknown tiny white mud nest tucked in the "mouth" of a rock on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT  3-19-2019
  

Grasshoppers, Crickets and Katydids  

• Angle-wing Katydid adult - (Microcentrum)   - large green katydid in Taylorsville, Utah 8-22-2008
  
• Greater Angle-wing Katydid nymph - (Microcentrum rhombifolium) - green babies in Taylorsville, UT 2010, 2009
• Differential Grasshopper - (Melanoplus differentialis) -  brown and yellow grasshopper in Taylorsville, Utah 2013, 2009
  
• Migratory Grasshopper - (Melanoplus sanguinipes) - pretty orange and black grasshopper in Washinton County
  
• Field Cricket - (genus Gryllus ) - dark brown cricket in Taylorsville, Utah
• Jerusalem Cricket - (Stenopelmatus) - large orange insect with a striped abdomen on Antelope Island
• Pasture Grasshopper - (Melanoplus confusus) - brown grasshopper with blue legs
• Red-winged Grasshopper - (Arphia pseudonietana) - flashy grasshopper in Eureka, Juab Cnty, UT  8-28-2018
  
• Riley's Tree Cricket - (Oecanthus fultoni) - green cricket in Taylorsville, Utah
• Skudder's Bush Katydid Nymph - (Scudderia) - 2 orange and green nymph in Red Butte Garden & Taylorsville, Utah 2017, 2010
  
• Scudder's Bush Katydid Nymph - (Scudderia) - green nymph in Taylorsville, UT 6-19-2008
  
• Shield-backed Katydid - (Anabrus simplex) - "Mormon Cricket: - in Utah's west desert
• Spurcate Grasshopper - (Dissosteira_spurcata) - pale hovering grasshoppers at Promontory Point, Box Elder Cnty., Utah
  
• Snowy Tree Cricket - (Oecanthus fultoni) - female in Taylorsville, Utah
• Two-striped Grasshopper - (Melanoplus bivittatus bivittatus) - in Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake County 7-9-2018
  
• Two-striped Mermeria Grasshopper - (Mermiria bivittata maculipennis) - Goshen Cnyn & Antelope Island, , 2018, 2008
  

Lacewings, Mantidflies and Antlions  (Neuroptera)

• Antlion - (Myrmeleontidae) - on Antelope Island in Utah
• Antlion - (Myrmeleontidae) - two different antlions on Antelope Island (2013)
  
• Brown Lacewing - (Micromus posticus) - in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Green Lacewing - (Chrysopa coloradensis) - in Taylorsville, UT
• Lacewing Larvae - predatory larvae in Taylorsville, Utah
• Mantidfly or Mantisfly
• Wasp Mantidfly - (Climaciella brunnea) - early June mantidflies on Antelope Island
  
• Wasp Mantidfly  - (Climaciella brunnea) - painting-like photo from Antelope island in 2014
  
• Wasp Mantidfly - (Climaciella brunnea) - yellow, orange and black mantis-like wasp imitator on Ant. Island, 2013
  
• Wasp Mantidfly - (Climaciella brunnea) - more photos from Antelope Island a few days later,  2013
• Wasp Mantidfly - (Climaciella brunnea) - invited for lunch on Antelope Island
  

Ladybugs (Ladybird Beetles, Lady Beetles)

• Ashy Gray Lady Beetle - (olla v-nigrum) - gray and black bug in St. George, UT 4-19-2015
• Ashy Gray Ladybird Beetle - (Olla v-nigrum) - both gray and black & red variant 5-15-2010, 11-30-2008
• Giant Lady Beetle - (Anatis lecontei) - red beetle with white stripes in Millcreek, SLC, Utah 11-28-2011
  
• Ladybird Beetle - (Brumoides histrio) - black bug with 4 big red spots - Antelope Island, UT 7-22-2010
  
• Ladybird beetles - five different species on three page
• Painted Lady Beetle - (Mulsantina picta) - in Salt Lake and Washington Cnty, Utah 7-9-2009, 7-4-2013
  
• Seven-spotted Lady Beetle - (Coccinella septempunctata) - ladybug and larva at Promontory Pt., Ant. Isl. & Farm. Bay
• Striped Lady Beetle - (Paranaemia vittigera) - brown and black striped ladybug on Antelope Island
  
• Thirteen-spotted Lady Beetle - (Hippodamia tredecimpunctata) - on Antelope Island
• Twenty-spotted Ladybug - (Psyllobora vigintimaculata) - tiny, tiny cream-colored ladybug with brown spots
  
• Two-spotted Lady Beetle - in June 2012 and late November 2009 in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Western Blood-red Lady Beetle - (Cycloneda polita) - in Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake County, Utah 5-12-2016
  

Leafhoppers, Spittlebugs & Treehoppers

• Leafhopper - (Anoscopus serratulae) - grey leafhopper with black stripes in Taylorsville, Utah 7-30-2008
• Leafhopper - (Colladonus geminatus) - common leafhopper on Austrian Copper roses in Taylorsville, UT 5-2008, 2009
• Leafhopper - (Colladonus mendicus) - striped, greenish hopper, Jordanelle Dam in Wasatch County, Utah 7-3-2011
• Leafhopper - (Eupteryx decemnotata) - green hopper with spotted body & head, Taylorsville, SLC Cnty, UT 5-3-2018
  
• Leafhopper - (Idiocerus subgenus Populicerus) - pink-eyed gray leafhopper on Nebo Loop, Utah Cnty, UT  7-21-2013
  
• Leafhopper - (genus Mesamia straminea) - golden adult and brown-spotted nymph at Promontory Point, Utah 2010-11
• Leafhopper - (Norvellina rubida) - striped leafhopper with pink eyes at Strawberry Res. Wasatch Cnty, Utah 6-30-2013
  
• Leafhopper - (Osbornellus scalaris) - spotted leafhopper in Brighton, Utah 10-1-2008
  
• Leafhopper - (Colladonus montanus) - in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch County, Utah 6-30-2013
  
• Leafhopper - "Privet Leafhopper " - (Fieberiella florii) - Taylorsville, UT and Red Butte Gardens, SLC, UT 2007
• Leafhopper - "Privet Leafhopper" Nymph - ( Fieberiella florii) - pink-tailed hairy insect in Taylorsville, Utah 8-3-2010
  
• Leafhopper - (Graphocephala coccinea) - red, blue and yellow striped Leafhopper, Taylorsville, Utah 7-14-2008
  
• Leafhopper - (genus Gyponana) - small green leafhopper with red eyes in Taylorsville, UT 6-15-2007, 7-24-2010
  
• Sharpshooter - (genus Cuerna) - gray leafhopper with white stripes in the desert by Lytle Ranch, Wash. Cnty., Utah
  
• Spittlebug nymph - (genus Clastoptera) - tiny, tiny insect with magenta eyes and a turned-up tail
  
• Spittlebug "Froghopper" - (Cercopidae Clastoptera) - in the Jordanelle Wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah
• Spittlebug "Dogwood Spittlebug " - (Clastsoptera proteus ) - yellow and black bug Jordanelle Dam wetlands
• Treehopper - "Modest Treehopper " - "Publilia modesta) - tiny tan sap-feeding insects on sunflowers being tended by ants
• Aspen Treehopper - (Telamona tremulata) - cute little humpbacked insect at Pineview Reservoir
  
• Treehopper - (genus Telamona) - tiny golden tree with beautiful gray eyes in Red Butte Gardens
• Treehopper - (Campylenchia rugosa) - brown thorn-like treehoppers on sweet clover in Wasatch County, Utah
  

Mantids

• Praying Mantis ( Part I) - in So. Utah and Bear River MBR in northern Utah
• Praying Mantis pair (Part II) - on Antelope Island
  

Mayflies

• Minnow Mayfly - (Callibaetis ) - 4 photos -   in Taylorsville, Antelope Island & Bear River MBR
• Minnow Mayfly - (Callibaetis) - two molting mayflies in Taylorsville, Utah
• Minnow Mayfly - (Callibaetis ferrugineus) - with beautifully patterned wings in Taylorsville & the Jordanelle wetlands, UT
  

Snakefly

• Snakefly - (Agulla) - 2 photos of a very strange-looking insect at Brighton, Utah

Springtails

• Elongate-bodied Springtail - (Orchesella cincta) - tiny brown insect with light stripes in my carport

Wasps & Hornets

• Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)
  
• Aphid Wasp - (genus Passaloecus) - tiny black aphid-controlling wasp in Taylorsville, UT  5-29-2014
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Astata) - small fly-like black and red wasp in St. George, Wash. Cnty., Utah 6-30-2017
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Astata) - small black wasp in Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT 9-2-2010
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Cerceris) - colorful wasp at Red Butte Garden, SLC, UT 7-9-2018
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Cerceris) - small colorful wasp in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT 7-23-2017
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Cerceris) - tiny yellow and black striped wasp on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty., UT 6-3-2016
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Cerceris) - at Promontory Point, Box Elder County, Utah 7-15-2010
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Cerceris) - yellow and black wasp at Promontory Point, BoxElder Cnty, Utah 6-9-2013
  
• Apoid Wasp - (genus Zanysson) - black wasp with yellow stripes and orange legs on Antelope Island, UT 2013 & 2016
  
• Thread-waisted Wasps
• Great Golden Digger Wasp - (Sphex ichneumoneus) - large orange and black wasp at Red Butte Garden, 2012
• Mud Dauber nests - (Sceliphron caementarium) - four clay nests in Taylorsville, SL County, UT  11-2017
  
• Mud Dauber - (Sceliphron caementarium) - black and yellow thread-waisted wasp on Antelope Island
• Mud Dauber & the Velvet Ant - (Sceliphron caementarium)  - one wasp's fascination with a Velvet Ant
• Muddy Mud Dauber - (Sceliphron caementarium) - dauber with gray thorax - muddy, perhaps?
• Steel-blue Cricket Hunter - (Chlorion aerarium) - large blue cricket-hunter on Antelope Island 2017
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Ammophila) - bright orange and black wasp at Bear River MBR, 7-2017
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Ammophila) - long-bodied orange and black wasp at Bear River MBR, 7-2013
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (Ammophila aberti) - fuzzy silver and orange wasp with long, slim abdomen
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (Ammophila procera) - black & red wasp in Wasatch County, Utah. 7-16-2018
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (Isodontia - possible mexicana) - black wasp Taylorsville, UT 2015-2018
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (Isodontia elegans) - in Red Butte Garden &Taylorsville, UT 8-2011, 8-2016
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (family Sphecidae) - hairy black wasps at Pine Valley Reservoir, Wash. Cnty., UT
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Prionyx) - small black and red wasp in Goshen Canyon, Utah Cnty, UT 2017
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Prionyx) - very large black wasp on Antelope Island (dueling with a paper wasp)
• Thread-waisted Wasp "Cutworm Wasp"- (genus Podalonia) - two wasps near Strawberry Res. 9-2015
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Podalonia) - hairy black wasp on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 2016
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (genus Podalonia) - orange and black wasp in Wasatch County, Utah 9-2012
  
• Thread-waisted Wasp - (Sphecidae) - orange & black wasps in Millard County & Davis County 2009, 2005
  
• Sand Wasp (Bembicini)
  
• Sand Wasp "Digger Wasp" - (genus Bembix) - beautiful green-eyed wasp on Antelope Island
• Sand Wasp - (Bembix americana) - on Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
• Sand Wasp - (possible Bembix amoena) - beaautiful wasp with stripes on Antelope Island, Utah 6-2017
  
• Sand Wasp - (Bicyrtes capnopterus) - black and yellow wasp with reddish wings at Willard Bay State Park
  
• Sand Wasp - (genus Bicyrtes) - black and white (or light yellow) wasp at Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah 7-9-2018
  
• Sand Wasp - (genus Hoplisoides) - black, orange and yellow wasp with patterned wings on Antelope Island, 2016
  
• Sand Wasp - (genus Hoplisoides) - dark orange and yellow wasp with patterned wings and green eyes, 2013
  
• Sand Wasp - (Stizoides renicinctus) - black wasps with an orange stripe on Antelope Island, Utah
  
• Sand Wasp - (genus Steniolia) - bright yellow and black wasps with green eyes at on Ant. Isl. & Red Butte Gardens, Utah
• Western Cicada Killer - (Sphecius grandis) - huge, huge orange, black and yellow wasp at Bear River MB
• Square-headed Wasp
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (Crabro latipes) - yellow and black wasp with front leg epaulets, Brighton, UT 7-2010
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (Crabronini ectemnius) - black and yellow wasp on Antelope Island
• Square-headed Wasp - (subtribe Gastrosericina) - pint-sized, big-eyed gray wasp on Antelope Island 8-2013
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (subtribe Gastrosericina) - blue and red was near Goshen Canyon, Utah Cnty, UT  9-2017
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (tribe Larrini) - near Hoover Dam in Nevada
• Square-headed Wasp - (tribe Larrini, subtribe Gastrosericina) - small red and black wasp with green eyes on Ant. Island
• Square-headedWasp "Tachytes Wars" - two green-eyed wasps fighting over territory, Antelope Island, UT 6-2017
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (Tachysphex terminatus group) - black wasp with a red-tipped abdomen on Antelope Island
  
• Square-headed Wasp - (genus Tachytes) - green-eyed wasp with redish-brown adbomen on Antelope Island, UT
• Square-headed Wasp - (genus Tachytes distinctus) - green-eyed male guarding the Phlox in Red Butte Garden
• Square-headed Wasp - (genus Tachytes) - territorial males fighting in Taylorsville, Utah
  
• Beewolves
• Beewolf - (Philanthus species unknown) - in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah
• Beewolf - (Philanthus crabroniformis) - in the Jordanelle wetlands, Wasatch County, UT
• Beewolf - (Philanthus gibbosus) - in the Jordanelle dam wetlands and on Antelope Island, Utah
• Beewolf - (Philanthus multimaculatus) - very colorful wasp (Uintas, Ant. Is. & Jordanelle) 2013, 2017, 2018
  
• Beewolf - (Philanthus ventilabris) - funny-faced, colorful male wasp guarding the weeds on Antelope Island, UT
  

• Thynnid Wasp - (Methocha) - long-bodied black male wasps on Antelope Island. Females ant-like. 9-3-2010
  
• Tiphiid Wasp - (subfamily Tiphiinae) - long-bellied wasp In St. George & at Strawberry Res., UT 10-9-2018, 7-24-2011
  
• Tiphiid Wasp - (genus Paratiphia) - small black wasps swarming at Bear River MBR, Box Elder County, Utah\
  
• Velvet Ants
• Velvet Ant - (Dasymutilla) - two photos of a winged male on Antelope Island
• Velvet Ant - (female Dasymutilla bioculata) - orange and black female on Antelope Island, 8-10-2017
  
• Velvet Ant - (male Dasymutilla bioculata) - fuzzy orange and black male on Antelope Island, 8-10-2017
  
• Velvet Ant - (Dasymutilla californica& Dasymutilla vesta) - two types of velvet ants on Antelope Island
• Velvet Ant - (Odontophotopsis venusta) - orange male velvet ant on Antelope Island
• Velvet Ant - (Sphaeropthalma marpesia) - female nocturnal velvet ant & a male Dasymutilla
• Velvet Ant "Thistledown Velvet Ant" - (Dasymutilla gloriosa - black and orange male wasp on Antelope Island
• Velvet Ant - (male Timulla grotei) - male black and orange wasp on Antelope Island
• Velvet Ant - (female Timulla grotei) - female black and orange wasp with white stripes on Antelope Island
• Yellowjackets
• Bald-faced Hornet - (Dolichovespula maculata) - at Middle Canyon & Red Butte Garden, 2008-2017
  
• Yellowjacket - Common Aerial Yellowjacket - (Dolichovespula arenaria) - on Antelope Island 6-3-2012
  
• Yellowjacket - Parasitic Yellowjacket - (Dolichovespula arctica) - in Cottonwood Canyon, Alta, Utah 9-21-2012
  
• Yellowjacket - Prairie Yellowjacket - (Vespula atropilosa) - at Red Butte Gardens, SLC, UT 8-29-2011
  
• Yellowjacket - Western Yellowjacket - (Vespula pensylvanica) - wasp at Bear River MBR & nest - Nebo Loop 2011-2012
  
• Yellowjacket - Western Yellowjackets - attacking a Tomato Worm in Taylorsville, SLC County, Utah 8-29-2017
  
• Blackjacket - (Vespula consobrina) - "black yellowjacket" at Red Butte Gardens in Salt Lake City, Utah 8-29-2011
  

Weevils

• Amblycerus - (Bruchinae Amblycerus) -  seed weevil in Salt Lake City, UT
• Billbug - (Sphenophorus aequalis ochreus) - Clay-colored Billbug narrowed to subspecies at Bear River MBR
  
• Billbug - (Sphenophorus gentilis ) - munching on grass at Bear River MBR, Box Elder Cnty., Utah
• Billbug - (Sphenophorus parvulus Gyllenhal) - bluegrass billbug in Taylorsville, Utah
• Broad-nosed Weevil - (Ericydeus lautus) - gray weevil with black stripes in Mercur Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT  2017
  
• Black Vine Weevil - (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) - black weevil with gold spots in Taylorsville, UT
• Canada Thistle Bud Weevil - (Larinus planus) - gold and gray weevil on Antelope Island
• Crusted Root Weevil - (Romualdius_scaber) - tiny tan weevil in Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah 5-21-2011
  
• European Curculionid Weevil - (Rhinusa tetra) - weevils on Mullein on Antelope Island, 6-2008, 6-2010
  
• Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil - (Polydrusus_sericeus) - metallic green weevil with brown legs at Red Butte Garden
  
• Ironweed curculio - (Rhodobaenus tredecimpunctatus) - on a sunflower leaf on Antelope Island 9-3-2009
  
• Nut and Acorn Weevil - (genus Anthonomus squamosus) - grey long-beaked weevil in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty. Utah
  
• Rose Curculio or Rose Weevil - (Merhynchites bicolor) - red and black weevil in a wild rose (Rosa woodsii)
• Sacred Datura Weevil - (Trichobaris compacta) -   in Snow Canyon State Park near St. George, Utah
  
• Snout Beetle - (Anthonomus) - in the Jordanelle wetland, Wasatch County, UT, 2006, 2008
• Snout Beetle - (Myrmex lineatus) - gray weevil with black stripes on rabbitbrush, Antelope Island 7-6-2010
  
• Snout Beetle - (Cryptorhynchus lapathi ) -"Poplar and Willow Borer" in Weber County, Utah 9-3-2006
• Strawberry Root Weevil - (Otiorhynchus ovatus) - black root-chewing bug with brown legs in Taylorsville, Utah
• Sunflower Stem Weevil - (Cylindrocopturus adspersus) - destructive weevil in Box Elder and Davis Counties
• Thistle Head Weevil - (Rhinocyllus conicus) - on Antelope Island and in the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, 2007, 2010
  

Miscellaneous

• Pink Pollen on a Tiny Bee from Cilantro blossoms (Coriander) in Taylorsville, Utah 6-30-2018
  
• Hyper Wool Carder Bee video - (Anthidium manicatum)  male bee flapping his tongue and vibrating his abdomen 7-2017
  
• "February Thaw" poem about a Drone Fly in February on Antelope Island
  
• A Paper Wasp, a Stink Bug and a Spider - thievery in the garden
• How to Know When You're Hooked on Photographing Insects (list)
  
• Cameraaa... Action! - square-headed wasp touring my camera
• Help and Not Hinder poem
• Robber Fly wannabe - a bush disguising itself as an insect
• Sawfly Art & Poem - artful sawflies at Jordanelle
• Who's Afraid of Whom? - insects avoiding other insects