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Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)
Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)
Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)

Frit Fly (Choropidae sp)
Frit Fly (Choropidae sp)
Fly (Diptera sp)

Fly (Diptera sp)
Alder Wooly Sawfly (Eriocampa ovata)
Alder Wooly Sawfly (Eriocampa ovata)

Alder Wooly Sawfly (Eriocampa ovata)
Alder Wooly Sawfly (Eriocampa ovata)
Leaf hoppers (Evacanthus grandipes)

Leaf hoppers (Evacanthus grandipes)
Leaf hoppers (Evacanthus grandipes)
Leaf hoppers (Evacanthus grandipes)

Carrion Beetle (Nicrophorus investigator)
Carrion Beetle (Nicrophorus investigator)
Carrion Beetle (Nicrophorus investigator)

Mites on Carrion Beetle
Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
Sawfly Larva

Sawfly Larva
Xysticus luctuosus
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Leafhopper (Evacanthus grandipes)
Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)

Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)

Meadow Spittlebug (Philaenus spumarius)
Evacanthus grandipes
Evacanthus grandipes

Brown Lacewing (Hemerobius sp)
Brown Lacewing (Hemerobius sp)
Soil Centipede (Geophilomorpha)

Brown Lacewing
Flower Fly (Melangyna sp)
Flower Fly (Melangyna sp)

Caddisfly Larva
Caddisfly Larva
Moth

Fly (Sericomyia sp)
Fly (Sericomyia sp)
Fly (Sericomyia sp)

Fly (Sericomyia sp)
Flower Fly (Melanostoma sp)
Flower Fly (Melanostoma sp)

Snow Larvae
Northern Selenia (Selenia alciphearia)
Northern Selenia (Selenia alciphearia)

Fly (Diptera sp)
Flower Fly (Sericomyia sp) on Cow Parsnip
Flower Fly (Sericomyia sp) on Cow Parsnip

Flower Fly (Sericomyia sp) on Cow Parsnip
Flower Fly (Sericomyia sp) on Cow Parsnip
Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)

Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)
Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)
Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)

Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)
Rock Louse (Ligia pallasi)
Snow Sedge Caddisfly (Psychoglypha sp)

Collembola
Sawfly (Tenthredinidae)
Sawfly (Tenthredinidae)

Sawfly (Tenthredinidae)
Sawfly (Tenthredinidae)
Sawfly (Tenthredinidae)

Ground Beetle (Scaphinotus sp)
Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata)
Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata)

Margined White (Pieris marginalis)
Margined White (Pieris marginalis)
Margined White (Pieris marginalis)

Margined White (Pieris marginalis)
Margined White (Pieris marginalis)
Margined White (Pieris marginalis)

Margined White (Pieris marginalis)
Pearsall's Carpet Moth (Venusia pearsalli)
Variable Carpet (Anticlea vasiliata)

Variable Carpet (Anticlea vasiliata)
Thallophaga hyperborea
Thallophaga hyperborea

Thallophaga hyperborea
Bore Hole in Alder
Caterpillar

Bombus flavirons
Flutter Fly (Pallopteridae)
Flutter Fly (Pallopteridae)

Water Strider (Limnoporus sp)
Water Strider (Limnoporus sp)
Variable Carpet (Anticlea vasiliata)

Caterpillar
Winter Moth (Operophtera bruceata)
Winter Moth (Operophtera bruceata)

Camoflage Bristletail
Coccoons
Pearsall's Carpet Moth (Venusia pearsalli)

Stone Fly
Variable Carpet (Anticlea vasiliata)
Variable Carpet (Anticlea vasiliata)

Bedstraw Hawk-Moth (Hyles gallii)
Bedstraw Hawk-Moth (Hyles gallii)
Lettered Habrosyne (Habrosyne scripta)

Lettered Habrosyne (Habrosyne scripta)
American Swordgrass Moth (Xylena nupera) Caterpillar
American Swordgrass Moth (Xylena nupera)

American Swordgrass Moth (Xylena nupera)
Variable Girdle (<em>Enypia venata</em>)
False Owlet Moth (Ceranemota fasciata)

Northern Thallophaga (Thallophaga hyperborea)
Scaphinotus angusticollis
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)

Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
Unidentified Moth

Spruce Limb Borer (Opsimus quadrilineatus)
Spruce Limb Borer (Opsimus quadrilineatus)
Spruce Limb Borer (Opsimus quadrilineatus)

Wandering Brocade (Oligia illicata)
Wandering Brocade (Oligia illicata)
Northwestern Caddisfly (<em>Halesochila taylori</em>)

Northwestern Caddisfly (<em>Halesochila taylori</em>)
Northwestern Caddisfly (<em>Halesochila taylori</em>)
Ecliptopera silaceata

Leaf Hopper (Idiocerus couleanus)
Leaf Hopper (Idiocerus couleanus)
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Entephria
Entephria

Entephria
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Unidentified Moth
Unidentified Moth

Unidentified Moth
Snow Sedge (Psychoglypha subborealis)
Stonefly

Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)

Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
Red Flat Bark Beetle (Cucujus clavipes)
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Anthobium

Anthobium
Anthobium
Beetle (Anthobium sp)

Unidentified Moth
Unidentified Moth
Unidentified Moth

Unidentified Moth
Flower fly (<em>Helophilus sp</em>)
Flower fly (<em>Dasysyrphus sp</em>)

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Venusia sp
Venusia sp
Venusia sp

Cough Pellet?
Unidentified Spider
Unidentified Spider

Unidentified Spider
Unidentified Spider
Caterpillar

Enigmatic Dart Moth (<em>Cerastis enigmatica</em>)
Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)
Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)

Mottled Gray Carpet (<em>Cladara limitaria</em>)
<em>Thallophaga hyperborea</em>
<em>Thallophaga hyperborea</em>

<em>Thallophaga hyperborea</em>
Small Engrailed (<em>Ectropis crepuscularia</em>)

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