Whitewater Springs Texas Plants and Wildlife

Whitewater Springs is a 1600 acre community northwest of Austin in Burnet County, Texas. Our community has hills and valleys, Cow Creek and wet weather streams, a spring-fed lake of approximately 14 acres, and 300 acres of common area that is a natural habitat for the numerous native species we ...more ↓

Phaon Crescent 1
Phyciodes phaon
Question Mark 2
Polygonia interrogationis
Lyside Sulphur 1
Kricogonia lyside
Danube Clouded Yellow 3
Colias myrmidone
Cloudless Sulphur 4
Phoebis sennae
American Snout 5
Libytheana carinenta
Common Buckeye 6
Junonia coenia
Pipevine Swallowtail 6
Battus philenor
Red-spotted Purple 7
Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 8
Papilio glaucus
Eastern Black Swallowtail 9
Papilio polyxenes asterius
Goatweed Leafwing 10
Anaea andria
Common Wood-Nymph 11
Cercyonis pegala
American Lady 12
Vanessa virginiensis
Great Purple Hairstreak 13
Atlides halesus
Gray Hairstreak 14
Strymon melinus
Siva Juniper Hairstreak 15
Callophrys gryneus siva
Common Checkered-Skipper 16
Burnsius communis
Eufala Skipper 17
Lerodea eufala
Least Skipper 17
Ancyloxypha numitor
Sachem 18
Atalopedes campestris
Red Satyr 19
Megisto rubricata
Hackberry Emperor 20
Asterocampa celtis
Mourning Cloak 21
Nymphalis antiopa
Neon Skimmer 22
Libellula croceipennis
Striped Bark Scorpion 1
Centruroides vittatus
Texas Cave Scorpion 23
Pseudouroctonus reddelli
Solifuges 24
Solifugae
Western Black Widow 25
Latrodectus hesperus
Texas Brown Tarantula 26
Aphonopelma hentzi
Giant Desert Centipede 27
Scolopendra heros
Desert Whitetail 1
Plathemis subornata
Black Saddlebags 1
Tramea lacerata
Eastern Amberwing 29
Perithemis tenera
Shadow Darner 30
Aeshna umbrosa
Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 34
Sceliphron caementarium
Carpenter Bees 36
Xylocopinae
Western Little Leafcutter Bee
Megachile onobrychidis
Sweat Bees 37
Halictidae
Mining Bees 38
Andrenidae
Plasterer Bees 39
Colletidae
Sonoran Bumble Bee 44
Bombus sonorus

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