Notes on Insects of the San Francisco Bay Area
Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis pallidolimbata (Mount Diablo)
California Yellowjacket - Vespula sulphurea (Mount Diablo)
Devastating Grasshopper - Melanoplus devastator (Sunol Regional Wilderness)
Long-horned Beetle - Prionus lecontei (Mines Road)
Mantis
Dark Jerusalem Cricket - Stenopelmatus fuscus (Sunol Regional Wilderness)
Cicadas
They are in order Hemiptera and super-family Cicadoidea. Some local species based on maps from Biogeography of the Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of North America, North of Mexico by Allen F. Sanborn and Polly K. Phillip, in Diversity, April 2013.
Walking Sticks
They are in the order Phasmatodea. Some local species:
Insect Articles and Links
|