Lawther - Deer Park Prairie Insect Listing
Grasshoppers, Katydids & Crickets
Cattail Toothpick Grasshopper Leptysma marginicollis Mischievous Bird Grasshopper Schistocerca damnifica Spurthroated Grasshopper Melanoplus sp. Bush Katydid Scudderia sp.
Dragonflies
Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera Common Green Darner Anax junius Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis Seaside Dragonlet Erythrodiplax berenice Band-winged Dragonlet Erythrodiplax umbrata Spot-winged Glider Pantala hymenaea Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum Four-spotted Pennant Brachymesia gravida Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina Marl Pennant Macrodiplax balteata Eastern Pondhawk Erythemis simplicicollis Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata Red Saddlebags Tramea onusta Needham’s Skimmer Libellula needhami Roseate Skimmer Orthemis ferruginea
Damselflies
Familiar Bluet Enallagma civile Citrine Forktail Ischnura hastata Rambur’s Forktail Ischnura ramburii Southern Spreadwing Lestes australis
Leaf-footed & Stink Bugs
Eastern Leaf-footed Bug Leptoglossus phyllopus Spined Soldier Stink Bug Podisus maculiventris Butterflies
Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Checkered White Ponita protodice Little Yellow Eurema lisa Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Common Buckeye Junonia coenia American Snout Libytheana carinenta Monarch Danaus plexippus Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus Sachem Atalopedes campestris Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor Southern Skipperling Copaeodes minima
Bees & Wasps
Black & Yellow Mud Dauber Sceliphron caementarium Mason Wasp Monobia quadridens Potter Wasp Eumenes fraternus American Bumble Bee Bombus pensylvanicus Honey Bee Apis mellifera
Flies
Hanging Thieves (Robber Fly) Diogmites sp. Robber Fly Efferia sp. Mydas Fly Mydas clavatus Tachnid Fly Epalpus signifer Flower Fly Toxomerus marginatus Soldier Fly Hoplitimyia sp. House Fly Muscidae sp.
Beetles
Delta Flower Scarab Trigonopeltastes delta Prairie Blister Beetle Zonitis vittigera Six-spotted Flower Longhorn Strangalia sexnotata True Bugs
Sharpshooter Draeculacephala sp. Two-lined Spittlebug Prosapia bicincta
Lacewings & Kin
Green Lacewing Chrysoperia rufilabris Owlfly Ululodes macleayanus
Assassin & Ambush Bugs
Milkweed Assassin Bug Zelus longipes Yellow-bellied Bee Assassin Apiomerus flaviventris Ambush Bug Phymata americana Stilt Bug Neides muticus