May 11: How many species?

How many of each taxon did we see? I have the stats for you:

Group Species Most Observed Species Observations
Animals 835 Salt Marsh Moth 60
Vertebrates 208 Northern Cardinal 25
Mammals 13 Fox Squirrel 14
Birds 134 Northern Cardinal 25
Reptiles 29 Common Box Turtle 13
Amphibians 7 Gulf Coast Toad 9
Fishes 25 Western Mosquitofish 5
Insects 566 Salt Marsh Moth 60
Silverfishes 1 Typical Silverfishes 1
Mayflies 3 Common Square-Gills 2
Odonates 27 Eastern Pondhawk 12
Earwigs 1 genus Euborellia 1
Orthopterans 28 Field Crickets 8
Webspinners 1 Black Webspinner 3
Stick Insects 3 Giant Walkingstick and 3
Nor. Two-striped Walkingstick 3
Mantids 1 genus Stagmomantis 2
Cockroaches and Termites 8 American Cockroach and 3
Pale-bordered Field Cockroach 3
Eas. Subterranean Termite and 1
Formosan Subterranean Termite 1
Thrips 1 subfamily Thripinae 1
True Bugs, Cicadas, Aphids, etc. 87 Wild Onion Mirid 9
Lice: Bark, Book, and Parasitic 2 genus Lepinotus 1
tribe Ptyctini 1
Dobsonflies and allies 1 Spring Fishfly 1
Lacewings and allies 7 Four-spotted Green Lacewing 3
Coleoptera 137 Emerald Flower Scarab 23
Sawflies, Ants, Bees, Wasps 58 Western Honey Bee 18
Caddisflies 1 Nectopsyche candida 1
Butterflies and Moths 155 Salt Marsh Moth 60
Fleas 1 Flea 1
True Flies 43 Hornworm Tachinid Fly 7
Arachnids 36 Striped Bark Scorpion 15
Springtails 1 subfamily Entomobryinae 1
Crustaceans 4 Common Pill Woodlouse 19
Millipedes 2 Eastern Crystal Millipedes 3
Centipedes 1 Brown Centipede 1
Mollusks 15 Globular Drop Snail 4
Annelids 2 Smooth Turtle Leech and 1
Earthworm 1
Plants 539 Black-eyed Susan 34
Mosses 8 Lesser Smoothcap 2
Liverworts 1 Corsinnia coriandrina 1
Ferns 6 Resurrection Fern 6
Gymnosperms 4 Eastern Red Cedar 29
Monocots 106 Saw Greenbrier 21
Grasses 48 Johnson Grass 12
Orchids 1 Spring Ladies’ Tresses 2
Dicots 414 Black-eyed Susan 34
Legumes 47 Honey Mesquite 13
Composites 80 Black-eyed Susan 34
Fungi and Lichens 75 Slender Orange-Bush 8
Fungi 56 Hairy Hexagonia 4
Lichens 19 Slender Orange-Bush 8
Protozoa 2 Wolf’s Milk and 1
Chocolate Tube Slimes 1
Bacteria 1 Agrobacteria 1

Insect orders missing:
Microcoryphia
Zoraptera
Plecoptera
Raphidioptera
Strepsiptera
Mecoptera

Bruce

Posted on May 12, 2024 01:41 AM by bruceneville