Cicindela dorsalis media (Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle)

Illustration of Cincindela theatina (Tiger Beetle)

Illustration of Papilio glaucus (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly)

Illustration of beetle

Unicode: 1F41E

The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 mm, about the size of a grain of rice. In western North America, the current outbreak of the mountain pine beetle and its microbial associates has destroyed wide areas of lodgepole pine forest

Unicode: 1F405

Illustration of Galerucella pusilla (Golden Loosestrife Beetle)