Insects

Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies)

Shadow Darner (Aeshna umbrosa)

 Meadowhawk Dragonfly - Sympetrum illotum

Libellula saturata     Flame Skimmer

Bees and Flies

Bombus sp. probably B.  caliginosus or vosnesenskii (Yellow-faced Bumble Bee)

Bombus mixtus (Fuzzy-horned bumble bee)

female Bombus vosnesenskii (Yellow-faced bumble bee)

Honey Bee Apis mellifera

Hoverflies  (Flower Flies)   Syrphidae

Toxomerus occidentalis a species of flower fly

Eupeodes volucris, Bird Hover Fly

Tricoptera: Caddisflies

Limnephilus sp.

Lepidoptera: Butterflies and Moths

Lorquin's Admiral - Limenitis lorquini

Lorquin's Admiral

Papilio rutulus - Western Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio eurymedon - Pale Swallowtail

Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta

Red Admiral

Red Admiral

Erynnis propertius -  Propertius Duskywing

Mylitta Crescent  -  Phyciodes mylitta

Vanessa cardui Painted Lady

Euphydryas chalcedona wallacensis    Snowberry Checkerspot

Satyr Comma           Polygonia satyrus

Ochlodes sylvanoides Woodland Skipper

Common Wood Nymph...

Cercyonis pegala

Mylitta Crescent... Phyciodes mylitta

Mylitta Crescent... Phyciodes mylitta

Celastrina echo  Echo Azure 

Celastrina echo    Echo Azure

  Aglais milberti   Milbert's Tortoiseshell

                                          

Nymphalis californica - California Tortoiseshell

Echo Azure   -- Celastrina echo

Moths

Gnophaela vermiculata, Bluebell Tiger Moth

Caenurgina crassiuscula Clover Looper Moth

Catocala sp.     Underwing

Tissue Moth  Triphosa haesitata

                                                                        Sulphur Angle
                                                                   Speranza sulphurea
                 

                                  

ventral view

Noctua pronuba  European Yellow Underwing

Deceptive Sallow  Feralia deceptiva

                                            Ctenucha rubroscapus
                                         Red-Shouldered Ctenucha

Syngrapha rectangula    Salt and Pepper Looper

Cinnabar Moth  Tyria jacobaeae

Forest Tent Caterpillar    Malacosoma disstria

Mantidie
                                    Mantis religiosus, Praying Mantis

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Diurnal Firefly  Ellychnia sp.

Multicolored Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis)

True Bugs (Heteroptera)

A Largus sp. nymph  The adults are the ones we saw hooked together mating in our garden all spring (2016).

Apparently, the little red bugs are just younger versions of the big blue-green iridescent ones, according to BugGuide.net.

The ones below were on a stump in our woods in July.

Gerridae (water striders) are also true bugs

Berytidae (Stilt Bugs), true bugs

A Berytidae nymph on my Butterwort (carnivorous plant)

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Western Boxelder Bug, Boisea rubrolineata

Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs), another true bug

Euschistus conspersus

Kingdom Animalia (Animals) Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) Class Insecta (Insects) Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies) Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs) Infraorder Pentatomomorpha Superfamily Pentatomoidea Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs) Subfamily Pentatominae Tribe Carpocorini Genus & species
Euschistus conspersus
 

Grasshoppers and Crickets: Orthoptera

Melanoplus femurrubrum;Red-legged Grasshopper