Phoenix Zoo Pollinator Project

This guide provides a list of pollinator species found in the Sonoran Desert. We encourage you to look for these species in your own backyards and neighborhoods! Check out the Phoenix Zoo's iNatuarlist blog to learn more about the importance of pollinators in their ecosystems and what actions ...mais ↓

Western Honey Bee 1
Apis mellifera
Blackened Bluewing 3
Myscelia cyananthe
Lesser Long-nosed Bat 4
Leptonycteris yerbabuenae
Painted Lady 5
Vanessa cardui
White-winged Dove 6
Zenaida asiatica
Pipevine Swallowtail 7
Battus philenor
Eastern Giant Swallowtail 8
Papilio cresphontes
Black Swallowtail 9
Papilio polyxenes
Checkered White 10
Pontia protodice
Cloudless Sulphur 11
Phoebis sennae
Southern Dogface 12
Zerene cesonia
Mexican Yellow 13
Eurema mexicana
Gray Hairstreak 14
Strymon melinus
Great Purple Hairstreak 15
Atlides halesus
Marine Blue 16
Leptotes marina
Western Pygmy-Blue 17
Brephidium exilis
Gulf Fritillary 18
Agraulis vanillae
American Lady 17
Vanessa virginiensis
Texan Crescent 19
Anthanassa texana
White Checkered-Skipper 18
Burnsius albescens
Desert Checkered-Skipper 21
Burnsius philetas
Orange Skipperling 22
Copaeodes aurantiaca
Fiery Skipper 23
Hylephila phyleus
Eufala Skipper 24
Lerodea eufala
Broad-billed Hummingbird 25
Cynanthus latirostris
Costa's Hummingbird 22
Calypte costae
Rufous Hummingbird 26
Selasphorus rufus
Bee Flies 27
Bombyliidae
Hover Flies 28
Syrphidae
Tachinid Flies 29
Tachinidae
Southern Long-nosed Bat 35
Leptonycteris curasoae
Long-tongued Bat 4
Choeronycteris mexicana

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