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Lick Creek Park, College Station, TX

This is a guide of the flora and fauna of Lick Creek Park in College Station, TX as compiled by the Texas Master Naturalist Brazos Valley Chapter. The park is 515.5 acres and has several distinct ecological regions including bottomland forest, sedge meadow, and Post-oak savannah.

Eastern Fence Lizard 1
Sceloporus undulatus
Little Brown Skink 2
Scincella lateralis
Common Five-lined Skink 3
Plestiodon fasciatus
Broad-headed Skink 4
Plestiodon laticeps
Common Spotted Whiptail 5
Aspidoscelis gularis
Six-lined Racerunner 6
Aspidoscelis sexlineata
Rough Earthsnake 7
Virginia striatula
Western Ribbon Snake 2
Thamnophis proximus
Flat-headed Snake
Tantilla gracilis
Brown Snake 8
Storeria dekayi
Rough Green Snake 9
Opheodrys aestivus
Plain-bellied Water Snake 10
Nerodia erythrogaster
Banded Water Snake 6
Nerodia fasciata
Diamondback Watersnake 11
Nerodia rhombifer
Common Kingsnake 12
Lampropeltis getula
Speckled Kingsnake 13
Lampropeltis holbrooki
Milk Snake 14
Lampropeltis triangulum
Eastern Hognose Snake 15
Heterodon platirhinos
Corn Snake 6
Pantherophis guttatus
Western rat snake 13
Pantherophis obsoletus
Eastern Coral Snake 16
Micrurus fulvius
Copperhead 1
Agkistrodon contortrix
Cottonmouth 6
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Timber Rattlesnake 17
Crotalus horridus
Eastern Spiny Softshell 18
Apalone spinifera
Western Chicken Turtle 19
Deirochelys reticularia
Pond Slider 20
Trachemys scripta
Common Box Turtle 21
Terrapene carolina
Three-toed Box Turtle 22
Terrapene carolina triunguis
Ornate Box Turtle 23
Terrapene ornata
Perching Birds 24
Passeriformes
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 25
Regulus calendula
Northern Cardinal 1
Cardinalis cardinalis
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Setophaga coronata
Wild Pig 26
Sus scrofa
White-tailed Deer 27
Odocoileus virginianus
Mexican Free-tailed Bat
Tadarida brasiliensis
Common Raccoon 28
Procyon lotor
Striped Skunk
Mephitis mephitis
Bobcat 29
Lynx rufus
Coyote 30
Canis latrans
Red Fox 29
Vulpes vulpes
Gray Fox 31
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Virginia Opossum 32
Didelphis virginiana
Eastern Cottontail 33
Sylvilagus floridanus
House Mouse 34
Mus musculus
Fox Squirrel 35
Sciurus niger
Cotton Mouse 36
Peromyscus gossypinus
White-footed Mouse 9
Peromyscus leucopus
Deer Mouse 37
Peromyscus maniculatus
Fulvous Harvest Mouse 38
Reithrodontomys fulvescens
Hispid Cotton Rat 39
Sigmodon hispidus
Nine-banded Armadillo
Dasypus novemcinctus
dragonflies and damselflies 40
Odonata
Widow Skimmer 41
Libellula luctuosa
Halloween Pennant 42
Celithemis eponina
Eastern Amberwing 43
Perithemis tenera
Blue-tipped Dancer 21
Argia tibialis
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly 44
Battus philenor
Phaon Crescent 45
Phyciodes phaon
Pearl Crescent 46
Phyciodes tharos
Silvery Checkerspot 47
Chlosyne nycteis
Red Admiral 48
Vanessa atalanta
Question Mark 49
Polygonia interrogationis
Common Buckeye 50
Junonia coenia
Variegated Fritillary 42
Euptoieta claudia
Gulf Fritillary 51
Agraulis vanillae
Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
Great Purple Hairstreak 52
Atlides halesus
Oak Hairstreak 53
Fixsenia favonius
Little Yellow 38
Pyrisitia lisa
Dainty Sulphur 1
Nathalis iole
Clouded Sulphur 54
Colias philodice
Clouded Skipper 38
Lerema accius
Eufala Skipper 1
Lerodea eufala
Bell's Roadside-Skipper 38
Amblyscirtes celia belli
Fiery Skipper 55
Hylephila phyleus
Sachem 56
Atalopedes campestris
Dun Skipper 38
Euphyes vestris
Horace's Duskywing 57
Erynnis horatius
Common Checkered-Skipper 58
Pyrgus communis
Velvet Ants 59
Mutillidae
Antlions 60
Myrmeleontidae

Edited by Rick Laughlin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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