Alderflies
- Alderfly
- (Sialis) - brown, lace-winged
aquatic insect at Bear River MBR
Ants
-
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
- Click
Beetle - (Elateridae)
- brown clicking beetle in
Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah 7-20-2010
- Click
Beetle - (genus Selatosomus)
- shiny black beetle in Wasatch Mtn State
Park, Wasatch Cnty, UT 6-24-2019
- 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
11-3-2010
- Dung
Beetle
- (Aphodius
distinctus) - mottled brown
dung beetles on Antelope Island -
2009, 2010, 2016
- Dung
Beetle
- (Aphodius pumilio)
- tiny black and brown beetle in Salt
Lake City, Utah 3-16-2011
-
Dung Beetle - (Canthon floridanus)
- rolling the dung at
Strawberry Reservoi, Wasatch County, UT
5-27-2007
- 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 Beetles
- 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 attenuata)
- small yellow and gray beetle in Red Butte
Garden, SL County, UT 7-9-2018
- Leaf
Beetle - (Trirhabda) - in
Kolob Canyons Overlook in Zion NP, Washington
County, UT
- 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) (flower
longhorns)
- 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)
- pair on Guardsman Pass, SL County, UT
7-20-2020
- Long-horned
Beetle - (Lepturobosca
chrysocoma) - beetle at Powder
Mtn. Ski Resort, Weber County, UT 8-2-2009
- Long-horned
Beetle - (Crossidius coralinus)
- red and black beetle at Promontory Point,
Utah 8-1-2010
- 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) - striped beetle, Taylorsville & Sugar House, Utah 2021, 2014
- Long-horned
Beetle - (Monochamus scutellatus)
- White-spotted Sawyer,
Guardsman Pass, Brighton, Utah 2003, 2019
- Long-horned
Beetle - (Neospondylis
upiformis) - large black beetle
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 - (Tragosoma harrisii) -
large brown beetle at Heber Valley Camp,
Wastach County, UT 8-13-2019
- 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
- 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)
- five beetles, five colors,
in Salt Lake, Wash. & Utah counties (and
Nevada)
- 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
- Rove
Beetle - "Spiny-legged Rove Beetle"
(genus Bledius) - small black,
yellow & red beetle, Antelope Is.
7-1-2014
- Rove
Beetle - (genus Omalium) -
possible Omalium rivulare at Great
Salt Lake Marina, UT 2-22-2012
-
Rove Beetle -
(Philonthus aurulentus) - on
Antelope Island, Davis County, Ut 4-18-2010
-
Rove Beetle (Large) -
(Tasgius ater) - black winged beetle
at Bear River MBR & Taylorsville, UT
7-12-2009
-
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 - (subfamily Dasytinae)
- tiny beetles in cactus flower, Tooele
County, UT 6-11-2018
- Soft-winged
Flower
Beetle - (genus Malachius )
- at Locomotive Springs, Utah
- Scarlet
Malachite
Beetle - (Malachius
aeneus) - in Davis, Box
Elder & Wasatch counties, UT 5-26-20,
6-9-13, 6-6-10
- 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 5-27-2011
- Tiger
Beetle - Cicindela nebraskana
- "Prairie Long-lipped" tiger beetle near
Heber City, UT 6-1-2012
- Tiger
Beetle
- (Cicindela orgeona) - on the
sands of Antelope Island. © Carol Davis
10-16-2010
- Tiger
Beetle
- (Cicindela purpurea) - green
beetle with light markings on Antelope Island,
UT 10-26-2008
- Tiger
Beetle
- (Cicendela purpurea) - male
and female mating pair on Antelope Island, UT
3-15-2009
- Tiger
Beetle "Wetsalts Tiger Beetle" - (Cicindela
haemorrhagica) - at Willard Bay,
Box Elder Cnty, UT 9-9-2015
- 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 (Small) - (genus Ceratina
subgenus Zadontomerus) - black bee in
Taylorsville, SL County, UT 5-25-2017
- 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
- Colletidae
- 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
- Masked Bee
- (genus Hylaeus) -
bee with white or yellow facial markings in
Taylorsville, SL County, UT 9-26-2020
- 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) -
red-legged bees in Juab and Davis Counties
8-23-2018, 9-29-2020, 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
Garden
- Cuckoo
Bee - (Nomada ruficornis group) -
red and yellow bee in Goshen Canyon, Juab
County, Utah 5-5-2019
- 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
- Bumble-bee
Digger - (Anthophora bomboides
sodalis) - orange and yellow bee in Red
Butte Garden, SLC, UT 7-9-2019
- Digger
Bee Cuckoo - (Xeromelecta
californica) - striped bee in Big
Cottonwood Canyon, SL County, Utah 9-3-2020
- 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, 6-21-2020, 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)
-light, golden and dark honey bees in Utah&
Nevada 5-17-2020, 2005, 5-27-2010
- Leafcutter Bees & Mason Bees (Megachilidae)
- Leafcutter
Bee - (genus Megachile) -
resting on a leaf roll in Taylorsville, Salt
Lake County, Utah 9-14-2020
- Leafcutter
Bee - (genus Anthidium) - black
& white bee with green eyes at Jordanelle
Dam wetlands
- Leafcutter
Bee
"
Wool Carder Bee " -
(Anthidium manicatum) - male and
female in Taylorsville, Utah 2016, 2017
- "Eight-toothed-Cuckoo-leaf-cutter" - (Coelioxys octodentatus) - little bee with spiked abdomen, Taylorsvville, UT 8-23-2021
- Red-footed
Cuckoo-leaf-cutter Bee - (Coelioxys
rufitarsis) - black & white
cuckoo bee with green eyes at Red Butte
Garden
- Leafcutter
Bee "Cuckoo" - (genus Coelioxys
subg. Xerocoelioxys) - red-legged,
green-eyed bee on Antelope Island 8-16-2017
-
Leafcutter Bee -
(Megachile inermis) -
black and white bee (with a hidden head)
in Wasatch County
- Leafcutter
Bee - (Megachile
parallela) - striped green-eyed
pollinator on Antelope Island, Utah
- Leafcutter
Bee - (Megachile
parallela) - cute "Mighty
Mouse" bee at Red Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
- Leafcutter
Bee - (Megachile subgenus Eutricharaea)
- small green-eyed bee, Taylorsville, UT
8-2017
- Leafcutter
Bee - (Megachile subgenus
Megachiloides) - in St. George,
Washington County, Utah 10-9-2018
- Leafcutter
Bee -
(genus Hoplitis) - on the road to
Lytle Ranch, Washington County, UT
- Leafcutter
Bee "Black-and-gray Leafcutter" - (Megachile
melanophaea) - in Big Cottonwood Cnyn,
Utah 7-11-2018
- Leafcutter
Bee "Western Leafcutter" - (Megachile
perihirta) - mustached, fuzzy bees,
Salt Lake Cnty, UT 7-26-2021, 7-11-2018
- Leafcutter
Bee "Pugnacious Leaf-cutter Bee" - (Megachile
pugnata) - black and white bee at
Jordanelle Dam wetlands
- Leafcutter
Bee - (genus Megachile) -
perfect little bee on Guardsman Pass, Salt
Lake County, Utah 9-4-2019
- Leafcutter
Bee - (Megachile) - beautiful
little bee unable to fly at Strawberry
Reservoir, UT
- Leafcutter
Bee
- (subgenus Megachile) -
hairy-faced bee in Taylorsville UT and at Pineview Reservoir, 2021, 2010
- Leafcutter
Bee - (subgenus Xanthosarus) -
pollen-covered yellow and black bee in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Leafcutter
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 Garden, 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 or Pebble Bees
- Resin
Bee - (Dianthidium curvatum sayi)
- brown, black and yellow bee on Antelope
Island, UT 2008 - 2019
- Resin
Bee
- (Dianthidium) - 3 photos of
resin bees and a pebble nest 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 - (genus Lasioglossum) - very tiny red and black bee on Butterfly Milkweed 8-8-2021
- Sweat
Bee - (Lasioglossum
semicaeruleum) - three photos of
tiny gray bees from Antelope Island, UT 2012,
2007
- Sweat
Bee - (Lasioglossum subgenus Sensu) -
striped bee on in Big Cottonwood Canyon, SL
County, UT 6-3-2020
- Sweat
Bee - (Lasioglossum sisymbrii) -
tiny bee with damaged wing on Antelope Island
in March 3-28-2013
- Sweat
Bee
- possibly Lasioglossum zephyrum -
tiny ant-like bee in Taylorsville,
Utah4-4-2010
- Sweat
Bee - Alkali Bee - (Nomia
melanderi) - black & yellow bee on
Rocky Mtn. Bee Plant, Ant. Island
Bristletails
Bugs
- Ambush Bugs
- 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 -
(Rhynocoris
ventralis)
- 2 red, yellow and black assassins at
Farmington Bay 8-24-2008
- Assassin
Bug - (genus Apiomerus) -
red & black bug with striped legs in
Tooele County, Utah 6-11-2018
- Assassin
Bug
- (Apiomerus
montanus
) - red and black
assassins in Tooele & Salt Lake
Counties 2020, 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 nymph - (Zelus
tetracanthus) -tiny gray nymph in
mid-March in Taylorsville, UT
-
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
Garden, 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
- (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 - (possibly
Arhyssus lateralis) -
orange and green bug in
Mercur Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT
6-9-2019
- 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
- Shield-backed
Bug -
(Homaemus aeneifrons)
- brown bug with stab mark,
Jordanelle wetlands, Wasatch
Cnty, UT 9-3-2012
- Shield-backed
Bug - (Scutelleridae
tetyra) -
mottled brown & black
bug on
Antelope Island, Utah
9-28-2008
- Small
Milkweed
Bug - (Lygaeus
kalmii)
-
adult and nymph
resembling box elder
bugs Antelope
Island 6-19-2009
- Squash Bug -
(Coreidae
Anasa)
- brown
bug in St. George,
Washington County,
Utah garden. 8-17-2008
- Stilt Bug - (genus Jalysus) -
tiny, brown,
stilt-legged bug
in Taylorsville,
Salt Lake County,
Utah 10-24-2015
-
Stilt Bug
-
(Neoneides
muticus)
- 2 photos in
Taylorsville,
Salt Lake
County, Utah
6-22-2009
- 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)
- eggs,
nymphs and
adults
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 "Chlorochroa Bug" - (Chlorochroa
ligata) - black with
white border in Tooele County, UT
6-11-2018
-
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 - (Limnoporus notabilis) - in the
Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch
Cnty., Utah
-
Western Boxelder Bug - (Boisea rubrolineata)
- nymph and adult in
Wasatch County, Utah 10-6-2020, 2006,
2008
- 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 "Bark Centipede" - (family
Crytopidae) - long yellow centipede
in Taylorsville, SL County, Utah 4-28-2008
-
Centipede "Stone Centipede) -
(order Lithobiomorpha)
- many-legged, long brown
insect in Taylorsville, UT 10-5-2010
-
Millipede - (genus Brachyiulus)
- brown, many-legged insect in
Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah
3-5-2012
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
- (Blattella vaga)
- small gold cockroach in a wetlands near
Las Vegas Nevada 3-29-2010
Earwigs
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) - patterned winged
fly, Guardsman Pass & Strawberry
Res. 2020, 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) - beautiful
bee fly with patterned wings, Salt Lake
& Wasatch Counties , 2020, 2019,
2013
- Bee
Fly
- (Poecilanthrax
californicus)
- large bee fly in the
desert near St. George. Utah 10-6-2009
- Bee
Fly - (possible Poecilanthrax
tegminipennis) - pretty brown bee
fly on Antelope island , 9-10=2017, 9-2-2008
- Bee
Fly - (Poecilanthrax
willistonii) - brown
patterned-wing fly in Goshen Canyon,
Utah 9-17-2017
- Bee Fly
-
(Poecilognathus)
- tan fly with spotted wings
on Antelope Island, 8-14-2015
- 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 "Ensign Fly" in Salt Lake
& Davis Counties, Utah 6-3-2020,
2015, 2014
- 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 4-26-2013
- Fireflies - see Beetles
- Flesh
Fly - (Sarcophaga)
- black and gray carrion-eating fly in Red
Butte Garden, SLC, Utah
- Frit Fly
- Frit
Fly "Grass Fly" - (genus Meromyza)
- tiny green fly with raised abdomen, in
Taylorsville, UT 9-28-2020
- Frit
Fly - (Thaumatomyia)
- tiny grass-eating or aphid-eating
striped fly in Taylorsville, Utah -
- Fruit Fly
- Fruit
Fly
- (Neotephritis
finalis) - mating threesome on
Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
8-23-2011
- Fruit
Fly
- (Paracantha)
- brown fly with spots on wings on
Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
8-23-2009
- Fruit
Fly - (Trupanea
nigricornis) - on
Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
8-12-2008
- Fruit
Fly - (Urophora cardui) -
"Canada Thistle Stem Gall Fly" -
colorful fly at Pineview Res., Weber
Cnty, UT 6-2018
- Horse
Fly -" Western Greenhead" - (Tabanus laticornis) - large
biting fly with green eyes at Bear River
MBR 7-12-2009
- 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 2013, 2008
-
Long-legged Fly - (genus
Scellus) - fly
on stilts with spotted wings - on
Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah 2019,
2009
- 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
- (Ceroxys
latiusculus) - in Taylorsville, Salt Lake Cnty and Bear River MBR, Box Elder Cnty. 2021, 2012
- 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) -
ovipositing on Tall Wheatgrass,
Antelope Island, UT 7-16-2019
- 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) - in Salt Lake and
Summit Counties, Utah, 7-8-2020,
7-27-2017
- 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" - female laying eggs in the sand on Antelope Island, Davis County, UT 8-9-2021
- 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 flies on Antelope
Island, Davis Cnty, UT 7-1-2014,
7-17-2014
-
Robber Fly - 2 pages of
photos at different locations, Ant.
Island, Red Butte Garden, 2020, 2009,
2008
- 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 - genus Chrysopilus -
skinny fly in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt
Lake County, UT 7-8-2020
- Snipe
Fly "Rocky Mountain Bite Fly" -
(genus Symphoromyia) - biting fly near
Strawberry Res., UT 7-25-2011
- 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, Salt Lake County, Utah 10-2021
- Syrphid
Fly - (Ceriana tridens)
- male bee mimic fly in Taylorsville,
SL County, Utah 5-29-2012, 8-12-2016
- Syrphid
Fly
- (Ceriana tridens) -
female bee mimic in Salt Lake City,
Utah 5-21-2008
- 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 1-2020, 5-2009, 4-2013,
10-2018
- Syrphid
Fly
- (Eristalis
arbustorum) - at Red Butte
Garden, 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 "Aspen Hoverfly" - (Hammerschmidtia rufa) - red fly in
Wasatch County, UT 6-24-2019
- Syrphid
Fly
- (Helophilus latifrons) -
one regular & one crusty female fly
on Antelope Island 10-21-2010, 9-29-2020
- Syrphid
Fly - (Helophilus latifrons)
- yellow and black fly on Antelope
Island, Davis County, UT 10-3-2017,
10-28-2018
- Syrphid
Fly - (Lejops curvipes) -
sexually dimorphic pair at Bear River
MBR and on Antelope Island, Davis
9-20-2020, 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
Garden and Antelope Island
- Syprhid
Fly - (Lejops polygrammus)
- mating pair at Strawberry Reservoir,
Wasatch County, Utah
- Syrphid
Fly - (Mallota
diversipennis) -
white-whiskered fly in Big Cottonwood
Cnyn, Red Butte, SLC, Utah 2020, 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 - (Platycheirus trichopus) - silver striped fly in Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah 10-28-2021
- Syrphid
Fly - (genus Platycheirus)
- orange and green fly with orange
racing stripe in the Jordanelle Dam
wetlands
- Syrphid
Fly - (Scaeva affinis) -
brown and white striped fly in Salt Lake & Davis Counties, Utah, 2021, 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 Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Syrphid
Fly - (Syrphus opinator) -
male & female, Salt Lake & Wasatch
County, Utah 9-25-2021 6-20-2018
- Syrphid Fly - (Temnostoma
excentrica) - yellow and
black wasp mimic mating pair
in the Jordanelle dam
wetlandsy
- Syrphid
Fly
"Margined Calligrapher" -
(Toxomerus marginatus) - striped
in Salt Lake & Box Elder
Counties 2019, -10
- Syrphid
Fly Larva - (Syrphidae) -
small, tan, caterpillar-like larva
in Taylorsville, UT 5-19-2012
- Tachinid Flies
- Tachinid
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) - female and male, Taylorsville & Red Butte Garden, UT 9-4-2021, 7-2018
- 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, Cocoons
- Tiny Mud
Nest - species unknown - mud
nest between two bricks, Taylorsville, SL
County, UT 7-6-2019
- Aspen
Leaf Gall - (genus Harmandia) -
red bump on aspen leaf on Guardsman Pass, SL
Cnty., Utah 7-8-2020
- Ichneumon
Wasp cocoon - (possible Hyposoter)
- on curlycup gumweed on Antelope Island, Utah
7-14-2020
- Ichneumon
Wasp cocoon - (possible Hyposoter)
- at Pineview Reservoir, Weber County, Utah
6-16-2012
- Jellybean
Gall Midge gall - (Rhopalomyia
glutinosa) - glossy lime green bud galls
in Mercur Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, UT 4-25-2019
- Mossy
Rose Gall - (Diplolepis rosae) - in
the Jordanelle Dam wetlands, Wasatch County,
Utah 7-3-2012
- Rabbitbrush
Gall "Spiny Cone Gall" - genus Rhopalomyia
midge - in Mercur Canyon, Tooele County,
Utah 4-12-2017
- 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
- Sponge
Gall Midge Gall - (Rhopalomyia pomum)
- spongy round galls on Big Sagebrush, Antelope
Island 4-12-2017
- Sunflower
Insect Gall - (species unknown)
- large yellow gall on one sunflower on Antelope
Island, UT 10-15-2019
- Unknown
tiny white mud nest tucked in the "mouth" of
a rock on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty,
UT 3-19-2019
- Willow
Stem Gallfly Gall - (Euura
exiguae) - on a willow at Willard
Bay, Box Elder County, Utah 9-21-2020
Grasshoppers,
Crickets and Katydids
- Angle-wing
Katydid
nymph & adult -
(Microcentrum)
- large green
katydid in
Taylorsville, Utah 2020, 2008
- Band-winged
Grasshopper - (Derotmema haydeni)
- grasshopper with bulbous eyes. Tooele
County, UT 8-2-2017
-
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
- Snakeweed
Grasshopper - (Hesperotettix
viridis viridis) - striped hopper on
Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
10-15-2019
- 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
- Glacial
Lady Beetle - (Hippodamia
glacialis) - at Bear River MBR, Box
Elder County, Utah 9-21-2020
- 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 - Farm. Bay & Ant. Island 2019, 2012
- Thirteen-spotted
Lady
Beetle - (Hippodamia
tredecimpunctata) -
on Antelope Island
- Three-banded
Lady Beetle - (Coccinella
trifasciata perplexa) - in
Wasatch Mtn State Park, Wasatch Cnty, UT
6-24-2019
- 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 "Geminate Leafhopper" - (Colladonus geminatus)
- striped hopper in Taylorsville, UT 10-17-2021, 2008
- 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 Garden, 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 - (Clastoptera
ovata)
-
froghopper with
striped head in the Jordanelle
wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah 9-14-2008
- 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 Garden
- Treehopper
- (Enchenopa
latipes) - brown
thorn-like treehoppers on sweet clover in
Wasatch County, Utah 7-3-2012
Mantids
Mayflies
Minnow
Mayfly - (Callibaetis)
- two molting mayflies in Taylorsville,
Utah 7-28-2009
Minnow
Mayfly - (Callibaetis
ferrugineus) - with patterned wings
in Salt Lake & Wasatch Counties
9-13-2016
Minnow
Mayfly - (Callibaetis
) -
in Taylorsville, Antelope Island &
Bear River MBR, UT 4-22-2019
Snakefly
- Snakefly
- (Agulla) - 2 photos of
a very strange-looking insect at
Brighton, Utah
Springtails
Wasps &
Hornets
- Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)
- Aphid Wasp
- (tribe Psenini) - tiny black predatory wasp
in Taylorsville, SL County, UT 8-9-2019
- 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, Box Elder Cnty, Utah 6-9-2013
- Apoid Wasp - (genus Eucerceris
flavocincta) - small striped
black & yellow wasp on Guardsman
Pass, UT 8-6-2019
- 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
- Common Blue Mud-dauber - (Chalybion californicum) - blue wasp in Salt Lake County, UT 8-29-2011
- Mud-dauber nests - (Sceliphron
caementarium) - four clay
nests in Taylorsville, SL Cnty,
UT 11-2017
- Mud-dauber -
(Sceliphron caementarium)
- black and yellow wasp, Antelope Island
2009, 2020
- 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) with
large caterpillar in Wasatch Mtn. St. Park,
Utah 7-30-2018
- 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 mexicana)
- black wasp Taylorsville, UT
2020, 2015-2018
- Thread-waisted
Wasp
- (Isodontia elegans)
- in Taylorsville & Red Butte, UT 7-17-2021, 8-2011, 8-2016
- Thread-waisted
Wasp - (family Sphecidae)
- hairy black wasps at Pine Valley
Reservoir, Wash. Cnty., UT
- Thread-waisted
Wasp - genus Prionyx)
- red and black wasps in Tooele
County, Utah 6-21-2020
- 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 beautiful wasps with green eyes at
on Ant. Isl. & Red Butte, Utah 2010-2017
- Sand
Wasp - (subgenus Stictiellina) -
green-eyed black & white wasp on
Guardsman Pass, SL County, UT 8-20-2019
- 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 - tiny red and
black wasp in Taylorsville, UT
6-19-2018
- 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) -
black & white wasp on Guardsman Pass, SL
County, UT 8-6-2019
- 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
- Braconid Wasps
- Braconid
Wasp
- (Agathidinae )
- tiny red and black wasp on
Antelope Island
- Braconid
"Mummy Wasp" - (genus
Aleiodes) - evidence of
caterpillar parasitism, Mercur Cnyn
4-25-2019, 10-18-2017
- Braconid
Wasp - (possible Aphidiinae) -
tiny striped parasitoid wasp at Brighton,
Utah
- Braconid
Wasp - (possible Braconinae)
- tiny red wasp with black legs and wings in
Taylorsville, UT
- Braconid
Wasp
- (subfamily Braconinae) -
tiny orange and black wasps in lilacs in
Taylorsville, UT
- Braconid
Wasp - (genus
Chelonus) - swarming brown
male wasps on Antelope Island, 9-2009
- Braconid
Wasp - (Macrocentrus)
- tiny orange wasp in
Taylorsville, Utah
- Braconid
Wasp cocoons - (subfamily Microgastrinae)
- cocoons in sage/rabbitbrush habitat Tooele
& Davis County 2017
- " Carrot
Wasp " - (genus Gasteruption)
- in the Jordanelle wetlands in Wasatch Cnty,
UT
- Chalcid Wasps
- Chalcid
Wasp - (genus Heimbra) - tiny
blue-black parasitic wasp on Antelope
Island, Davis Cnty, UT 8-2016
- Chalcid
Wasp - (possible Hyperparasitic
Pteromalid) - being born from a
mummified aphid in Taylorsville, UT 6-2014
- Chalcid
Wasp - (genus Hockeria) - tiny
red-orange hump-backed parasitic wasp on
Antelope Island 7-25-2012
- Chalcid
Wasp - (genus Podagrion)
- praying mantis parasitic wasp in St.
George, Washington Cnty., UT 3-9-2018
- Chalcid
Wasp - (Leucospis & Leucospis
affinis) - tiny male and female
wasps. Taylorsville, UT 2020, 2010
- Chalcid
Wasp - (genus Monodontomerus)
- tiny red-eyed, black parasitic wasps in
Taylorsville, UT 9-14-2020
- Cuckoo
Wasp
- (Chrysididae)
- green wasps with
blue highlights at Red Butte Garden, SLC,
Utah
- Cuckoo
Wasp - (Chrysis angolensis) -
blue-green wasp at Bear River MBR, Box Elder
County, Utah
- Hornet - see under Yellowjackets
- Ichneumon Wasps
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Anomalon) - tiny male
and female wasps at Promontory Point, Box
Elder Cnty, UT 8-1-2010
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (subfamily Anomaloninae)
- black, orange & yellow tiny wasp in
Mercur Cnyn, UT 4-27-2018
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Arenetra) - wasp
combing the ground on a 35 degree day on
Antelope Island, 3-5-2013
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Aritranis director) - black
& red female wasp in Taylorsville, SL
County, UT 7-3-2020
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (tribe Atrophini) - black and red Banchinae
wasp in Middle Canyon, Tooele Cnty, UT
9-2017
- Ichneumon
Wasp
- (subfamily
Banchinae) - female red and
black wasp on Antelope Is., Davis Cnty, UT
10-2010
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Cryptus albitarsis) -
orange and black wasp on Antelope
Island, 10-26-2016
- Ichneumon
Wasp "Hover Fly Parasite" - (Diplazon
laetatorius) - at Red Butte Garden,
SLC Cnty, UT 6-30-2013
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Diplazontinae)
- black, white & orange wasp in
Taylorsville, Utah 6-5-2010
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Tribe Ephialtini) -
black and orange wasp with long ovipositor
on Antelope Island 9-27-2016
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Ephialtini) -
small wasp in Wasatch Cnty and Wash. Cnty,
Utah 7-30-2018, 10-18-2008
- Ichneumon
Wasp
- (genus Ephialtini) -
ovipositing on a sunflower on Antelope
Island, Davis Cnty, UT 10-30-2012
- Ichneumon
Wasp
-
(Ichneumon
ambulatorius) - orange, black and
white wasp in Red Butte Garden, SLC
9-19-2011
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Ichneumonidae) - dark
red and black wasp early on Antelope Island,
Davis Cnty, UT 2-5-2015
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (tribe Ichneumonini) -
orange wasp with black stripes on Antelope
Island, UT 5-30-2019
- Ichneumon
Wasps - (tribe Ichneumonini) -
three wasps in the Uintas, Midway and Red
Butte Garden, 2014, 2017
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (subfamily Metopiinae)
- tiny wasp, endoparasitoid of Lepidoptera,
Salt Lake County, UT 9-25-2013
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Netelia) - orange
female wasp on Antelope Island, Davis
County, UT 9-23-2009
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Patrocloides) -
blue-black wasp with bi-colored antennae in
the Uintas, Summit Cnty, UT 8-3-2017
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Pimpla sanguinipes) -
black wasp with large red legs in Mercur
Cnyn, Tooele Cnty, Utah, 10-2017
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (Pimplini) -
black and orange wasp in November on
Antelope Island, Davis County, UT
11-11-2009
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Ophion) - tiny
orange wasp on Antelope Island, Davis
Cnty, UT 10-18-2018, 10-15-2019
- Ichneumon
Wasp
- (genus Ophion) -
small orange wasp in Taylorsville, Salt Lake
County, Utah 4-22-2010
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Spilichneumon)
- red wasp with two-toned antennae on
Stansbury Island, Utah 10-2017
- Ichneumon
Wasp - (genus Spilichneumon) -
red wasp with black stripes in Taylorsville,
UT 4-2015
- Ichneumon
Wasp
- 3 pages of different
species
- Mason
Wasp - (Euodynerus) - at
Payson Lakes, Utah County, Utah
- Mason
Wasp - (Euodynerus hidalgo viereckii)
- in Taylorsville and
on Antelope Island, UT 6-21-2018,
6-23-2013
- Paper Wasps
- Paper
Wasp "Western" - (Mischocyttarus
flavitarsis) - colorful wasp in Juab
County, Utah 7-5-2018
- Paper
Wasp, European - (Polistes
dominula) - on Antelope
Island and at Red Butte Garden,
Utah 7-1-2019, 9-4-2012
- Paper
Wasp, European Larva - (Polistes
dominula) - small, slimy pod-like
larva (with face) in Taylorsville, Utah
- Paper
Wasp
skinning a Caterpillar - (Polistes
dominula & Geometrid Moth)
- on Antelope Island, UT 8-7-2013
- Paper Wasp "Apache Wasp" -
(Polistes apachus) - gorgeous
orange and yellow wasp in St. George,
Utah 9-21-2015
- Paper
Wasp, Golden - (Polistes
aurifer) - "Bearer
of Gold" on Antelope Island, Davis County,
Utah 6-28-2021
- Paper
Wasp, Golden - (Polistes aurifer) -
on Antelope Island, Utah and at Henderson,
NV 9-15-2020, 4-13-2013
- Parasitic
Wasp - (family Figitidae,
subfamily Aspiceratinae) - tiny
wasps laying eggs on fly larva in
Taylorsville, UT
-
Pigeon Horntail (Female) -
(Tremex columba) -
huge stingless wood wasp in Taylorsville,
UT
- Pigeon
Horntail (Male) - (Tremex columba)
- large, long-bodied wasp in Wasatch
Cnty., UT 8-23-2015
- Pollen
Wasp - (Pseudomasaris edwardsii)
- carrying Oil Beetle larvae at Strawberry
Reservoir, Wasatch Cnty, UT 6-24-2018
- Pollen
Wasp
- (Pseudomasaris vespoides)
- yellow-jacket-like wasp in Wasatch
Cnty, UT 2011, 2012, 2017
- Potter Wasps
- Potter
Wasp - (Ancistrocerus antilope)
- male wasp with Saproglyphid mites,
Guardsman Pass, SL County, UT 7-8-2020
- Potter
Wasp - (Parancistrocerus or Stenodynerus)
- tiny wasp on alyssum in Taylorsville, SL
County, UT 7-4-2017
- Potter
Wasp Rivalry - (Stenodynerus
anormis species group &
Ancistroceris) - two in Wasatch Cnty,
UT 9-11-2016
- Potter
Wasp Nest #1 - (Eumeninae) -
beautifully fashioned nest in Red Butte
Garden, SLC, UT 6-11-2013
- Potter
Wasp
Nest #2 - (Eumeninae)
- another earthen jug found in Red
Butte Garden 10-23-2013
- Potter
Wasp and Moth Prey - (genus Leptochilus)
- digging for Teladoma helianthi
moth larva, AI 8-8-2012
- Potter
Wasp - (Eumenes bollii)
- gorgeous wasp in Tooele
& Davis Counties, Utah 2010- 2018
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Eumenes) -
graceful potter wasps in Salt Lake County, Utah 9-27-2021, 9-4-2012
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Eumenes)
- colorful wasp in the Jordanelle Dam
wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, Utah 9-30-2012
- Potter
Wasp
- (genus Eumenes) - black
and yellow wasp with a bulbous abdomen on
the Nebo Loop. 9-23-2012
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Eumeninae) -
brown, black & yellow beauty in
Jordanelle Dam Wetlands, 6-24-2018
- Potter
Wasp - (Eumeninae) - striped
wasp excavating a hole in wood - Summit
County, UT 7-2017
- Potter
Wasp - (Eumeninae) - black and
yellow wasp at Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake
City, UT 6-19-2014
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Microdynerus) -
small black, white & red wasp at
Jordanelle, Wasatch Cnty., Utah 6-14-2015
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Pterocheilus) -
orange, yellow and brown wasp on Antelope
Island, UT 7-1-2019
- Potter
Wasp - (genus Pterocheilus) -
red and yellow wasp on Antelope Island, UT
8-7-2013
- Potter
Wasp
- (genus Pterocheilus) -
orange and yellow wasp on Antelope Island,
Davis County, Utah 9-2-2012
- Potter
Wasp
- (Genus
Ancistrocerus) - on Antelope
Island & at Red Butte Garden 8-29-2010,
11-3-2010
- Sapygid Wasps
- Sapygid
Wasp - (Krombeinopyga aculeata) -
solitary black wasp with pointed abdomen, Jordanelle wetlands, 2012
- Sapygid
Wasp - (Krombeinopyga pumila) -
tiny black wasp with yellow or white stripes
in Taylorsville, UT 7-6-2017
- Sapygid Wasp - (family Sapygidae) - little striped, long-bodied wasp in Taylorsville, SL County, Utah 6-27-2021
- Sawflies
- Sawfly
Larva - (Abia americana) -
tiny green and yellow larva in Jordanelle
Dam wetlands, Wasatch Cnty, UT 6-16-2012
- Sawfly
- (genus Fenusa ulmi) - "Elm Leaf
Miner" - small black leaf-mining wasp in
Taylorsville, Utah 5-2014,
- Sawfly
- (Hemichroa crocea) - Striped
Alder Sawfly adult in Wasatch County, UT
6-6-2010
- Sawfly
"Pear Slug" - (Caliroa cerasi)
- early instar pear sawfly larva at
Jordanelle Dam wetlands 9-11-2016
- Sawfly
- (Tenthredo maxima) - beautiful
yellow & black sawfly in the Uintas in
Summit Cnty, Utah 7-27-2017
- Sawfly
- (genus Tenthredo) - orange
and black common sawfly with yellow stripes
at Brighton, SLC Cnty, UT 7-13-2010
- Scoliid
Wasp "Hairy-footed" - (Dielis pilipes) -
black & yellow wasp on Antelope Island,
Davis County, UT 4-29-2021, 6-14-2017
- Scoliid
Wasp - (Dielis
tolteca) - large orange and black wasp
at Tonaquint Park, St. George, Utah 9-18-2015
- Spider Wasps
- Spider
Wasp - Nesting and then catching
a Neoscona Spiders on Antelope Island,
2017
- Spider
Wasp - (Ageniella accepta)
- orange spider wasp on Antelope Island, Davis Cnty, UT 2018, 2010
- Spider
Wasp - (Aporinellus) -
gray wasp on Antelope Island
- Spider
Wasp
- (Auplopus
caerulescens or A. architectus)
- blue-green wasp with a Yellow
Sac Spider as prey
- Spider
Wasp - (genus Ceropales) -
black and white kleptoparasitic wasp on
Antelope Island 2016
- Spider
Wasp - (Episyron snowi) -
black wasps with white-tipped abdomens on
Antelope Island 2016
- Spider
Wasp - (Genus Evagetes)
- beautiful blue wasp on Antelope Island,
Utah
- Spider
Wasp - (Poecilopompilus
interruptus) - brown, yellow and black
was with long antennae on Antelope Island
- Spider
Wasp - possible Pepsis mildei
or Entypus
unifasciatus in St. George, Utah
10-8-2018
- Spider
Wasp - (Pompilidae) - black
& white was with a white-tipped abdomen
- Ant. Island
- Spider
Wasp - (Pompilidae) - black
wasp with white stripes on Antelope Island,
Davis County, UT
- Spider
Wasp - (Pompilidae)
- blue-black wasp on Antelope Island
- Spider
Wasp
- (Tachypompilus unicolor) -
red-orange wasp with bluish-purple wings on
Antelope Island
- Spider
Wasp
- family Pompilidae) - one black and one blue
spider wasp on Antelope Is. & Red Butte Garden 2019, 2011
- Tarantula
Hawk - (Pepsis) -
largest wasps I've ever seen on
Antelope Island, Davis County, Utah
9-2013, 7-2017
- Tarantula
Hawk - (Entypus aratus)
- large black wasp with orange
wings near Promontory Point in Box
Elder County, Utah
- Wasp
Burying Caterpillar - (species
unknown) - orange and black wasp with green
caterpillar at Strawberry Res., 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
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 - (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
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