Insects

Anza-Borrego Insects & Arachnids

Anza-Borrego is home to a wide variety of insects and arachnids, including ants, bees, beetles, butterflies, grasshoppers, moths, scorpions and spiders.

Here are just a few of the many insects and arachnids that are found in the desert.


Insect & Arachnid Gallery

Photo Credits

Katie Aeschleman
Least Desert Grasshopper, Pink Diamond Moth

Paulette Donnellon
Becker’s White Butterfly, Bordered Patch Butterfly, Painted Lady Butterfly, Queen Butterfly, Western Bee (#1 & #2)

Taylor Kingston
White-lined Sphinx Moth (#1)

Don Larsen
Flame Skimmer Dragonfly, Variable Checkerspot Butterfly

Bill Liming
Ironclad Beetle, Tarantula Hawk, White-lined Sphinx Moth (#2)

Robert Marcos
Tick

Jim Rorabuagh
Harlequin Cabbage Bug

Mitchell Sterling
American Lady Butterfly, Bee Fly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, California Bordered Plant Bug Nymph, California Hairstreak Butterfly, Callippe Fritillary Butterfly, Cellophane Bee, Checkered White Butterfly, Common Blue Damselfly, Common Buckeye Butterfly, Crab Spider, Desert Harvestman, Desert Stink Beetle, Flesh Fly, Giant Hairy Scorpion (#1 & #2), Green Iridescent Blister Beetle, Honey Bee, Inflated Blister Beetle, Iron Cross Blister Beetle, Ladybug (#1 & #2), Loki Juniper Hairstreak Butterfly, Marine Blue Butterfly, Mount Mahogany Hairstreak Butterfly, Orange Sulphur Butterfly, Queen Butterfly, Ribbon Jumping Spider. Striped Cucumber Beetle, Tarantula