Pocket Prairie: Two Months of Insect Diversity

Here they are, slightly more organized and by common names.

Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) - 19

Carolina Satyr
Cloudless Sulphur
Black Swallowtail
Painted Lady
Horace’s Duskywing
Gulf Fritillary
Eastern Giant Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Monarch
Queen
Phaon Crescent
Colorful Zale Moth
Brazilian Skipper
Clouded Skipper
Yellow-collared Scape Moth
Luna Moth
Macaria (genus)
Geometer Moth (family)
Bagworm (family)

Wasps - 15

Five-banded Thynnid
Red-marked Pachodynerus
Guinnea Paper
Common Blue Mud-dauber
Golden-reined Digger
Metric Paper
Course-backed Red Paper
Common Eastern Velvet Ant
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber
Pseudodynerus quadrisectus
Eastern Cicada-killer
Holopyga (genus)
Pseudodynerus
Blue-winged Scoliid
Eremnophila aureonotata

Dragonflies and Allies - 11

Common Whitetail
Picture-winged Antlion
Swamp Darner
Broad-striped Forceptail
Needham’s Skimmer
Roseate Skimmer
Slaty Skimmer
Fragile Forktail
Eastern Pondhawk
Blue Dasher
Citrine Forktail

Bees - 16

Southern Carpenter
Eastern Carpenter
Parkinson’s Carpenter
Ligated Furrow
Poey’s Furrow
Lunate Longhorn Cuckoo
Two-spotted Long-horned
Oblique Sunflower
Oblique Sunflower subspecies
American Bumblebee
Pugnacious Leafcutter
Parallel Leafcutter
Thumbed Leafcutter
Poecilanthrax lucifer
Horsefly-like Carpenter
Flat-tailed Leafcutter

Spiders - 4

White-cheeked Jumping
Mabel Orchard Orbweaver
Magnolia Green Jumping
Ant-mimic Sac (genus)

Beetles, True Bugs, and Grasshoppers - 15

Common Green June
Aloeus Ox Beetle
Harlequin Flower
Wheel Bug
Margined Shining Leaf Chafer
Staphylinina (subtribe)
Southern Two-striped Walkingstick
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
Apiomerus spissipies
Short-horned grasshopper (family)
Harpalus (genus)
Apidinae (family)
Prionid (subfamily)
Rugosana (genus)
Orthostethus infuscatus

Flies - 5

Promachus hinei
Diogmites neoternatus
Limoneth maurator
Clubbed Mydas
Charcoal Bee (genus)

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