FW ID

Question 1

Answer 1

Scolytidae – Dendroctonus ponderosae (Mountain Pine Beetle)

Larvae burrow through cambium and produce gallery patterns

Question 2

Answer 2

Cerambycidae – Longhorn Beetle (Round-headed Borer)

Larvae produce round holes in wood

Help dead trees break down

Question 3

Answer 3

Buprestidae – Metallic wood-boring beetle (Flat-headed Borer)

Bore holes are flat

Question 4

Answer 4

Oncorhynshus clarkia stomias – Greenback cutthroat trout

State fish of CO

Threatened

Red around gills and belly

Can be affected by whirling disease. Parasite that causes deformed tail.

Question 5

Answer 5

Oncorhynchus mykiss – rainbow trout

Spawns in Spring

Introduced to CO

Game fish

Can be affected by whirling disease – parasite that causes deformed tail

Question 6

Answer 6

Oncorhynchus mykiss – rainbow trout

Spawns in Spring

Introduced to CO

Game fish

Can be affected by whirling disease – parasite that causes deformed tail

Question 7

Answer 7

Salvelinus fontinalis – brook char

Dark body with light spots

White margin on fins

Likes cold temps

Introduced

Game

Question 8

Answer 8

Anaxyrus boreas boreas – Rocky Mountain boreal toad

Breeds in small lakes and ponds

Chytrid fungus – Endangered

Question 9

Answer 9

Ambystoma tigrinum – Tiger salamander

Can be found in all counties in CO

Top predator in high altitude lakes

Affected by ATV virus

Tiger stripe patterns

Question 10

Answer 10

Pseudacris maculate – Boreal chorus frog

False cricket frog

Question 11

Answer 11

Spermophilus elegans – Wyoming ground squirrel

Question 12

Answer 12

Callospermophilus lateralis – golden-mantled ground squirrel

Line only reaches shoulder

Question 13

Answer 13

Tamias minimus – least chipmunk

Line goes all the way over head

Question 14

Answer 14

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus – pine or red squirrel

Tree squirrel

Piles of discarded comb waste (midden)

Fungus grows in middens

Vole eats fungus and picks up spores

Fungus benefits lodgepole roots

Question 15

Answer 15

Sciurus aberti – Abert’s squirrel

Ponderosa Pine

Grey, black, or cinnamon

Long ears

Hunted

Question 16

Answer 16

Peromyscus maniculatus – deer mouse

Can transmit haunta virus

Question 17

Answer 17

Thomomys talpoides – northern pocket gopher

Burrow through ground

Small ears

External fur-lined pockets

Important for turning soil over

Question 18

Answer 18

Myodes gapperi – red-backed vole

Question 19

Answer 19

Odocoileus hemionus – mule deer

Smaller than eld

Hunted species

Chronic wasting diseases affects brain and spinal chord

Question 20

Answer 20

Alces alces – moose

Reintroduced to CO

Need terrestrial and aquatic vegetation

Chronic wasting disease affects brain and spinal chord

Question 21

Answer 21

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Migrate

Very small

Question 22

Answer 22

Northern Flicker

Red shafted feathers

Red Moustaches

Spotted pattern on breast

Eat ants

Loud call

Question 23

Answer 23

Hairy Woodpecker

Males have red spor on head

Two toes forward, two back

Stiff tails

Barbed tongues

4-5X length of bill

Shock absorbers in brain

Question 24

Answer 24

Red-naped snapsucker

Drill small wells to collect sap and insects

Question 25

Answer 25

Mountain Chickadee

Cavity nester

10 grams

White stripe and black eyeline

Question 26

Answer 26

White-breasted Nuthatch

Foraging on thicker branches and tree trunks, nest in holes

Question 27

Answer 27

American Robin

Thrush family

Blue eggs

Question 28

Answer 28

American Dipper

Aquatic songbird

Dives into water and eats insects

Question 29

Answer 29

Yellow-rumped warbler

Nest down in willows

Question 30

Answer 30

Wilson’s warbler

• small, yellow

Small black cap on head

Question 31

Answer 31

Pine Siskin

Yellow wash feathers

Question 32

Answer 32

Dark-eyed Junco

Grey, with red on back

Outer white tail feathers

Question 33

Answer 33

White-crowned Sparrow

White and black head