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Wildlife
Desert Insects & Spiders
Insects, a major group of arthropods, have six-legs, an exoskeleton (hard part is on the outside) and three main body sections (head, thorax, and abdomen). Most insects have wings although not all of them fly. They are the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species-more than all other animal groups combined.
Insects and Spiders
Arid Lands Honey AntsAztec Pygmy Grasshopper
Bee Assassin
Blister Beetle
Broad-necked Darkling Beetle
Carolina Wolf Spider
Centruroides Scorpions
Cochineal Bug
Creosotebush Grasshopper
Desert Tarantula
Giant Vinegarone
Green Valley Grasshopper
Inconspicuous Crab Spider
Jerusalem Cricket
Little Black Ant
Mormon Cricket
Obscure Ground Mantid
Pale Windscorpion
Pallid-winged Grasshopper
Red Velvet Ant
Rough Harvester Ant
Spine-waisted Ants
Tarantula Hawk Wasp
Texas Carpenter Ant
Thistledown Velvet Ant
Butterflies and Moths
Antiliean BlueBecker's White
Behr's Hairstreak
Bordered Patch
California Cankerworm
Chara Checkerspot
Common Sulphur
Desert Checkerspot
Desert Gray Skipper
Desert Green Hairstreak
Desert Orange Tip
Desert Swallowtail
Great Basin Sootywing
Gray Metalmark
Large California Spanworm Moth
Large White Skipper
Leda Hairstreak
Monarch
Pahaska Skipper
Painted Lady
Pale Blue
Pearly Marblewing
Phaon Cresentspot
Queen
Sandhill Skipper
Short-tailed Black
Sleepy Orange
Small Blue
Texan Cresentspot
Western Pygmy Blue
White-lined Sphinx
Yucca Giant Skipper