Invertebrates of Glacier National Park
The 2 invertebrates you can find at Glacier National Park, like the Army cutworm moth — sizes, diets, and whether you should worry.
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Invertebrate Army cutworm moth
Euxoa auxiliaris
A gray moth that migrates from Great Plains farm fields to high mountain talus, where grizzly bears flip rocks to eat it by the thousands each summer.
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Invertebrate Mountain pine beetle
Dendroctonus ponderosae
A beetle about the size of a grain of rice that tunnels under pine bark and can turn a mountainside red at Yellowstone, Glacier, and Rocky Mountain.