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Sankofa Wetland Park & Nature Trail

Located at 6401 Florida Ave. in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Sankofa Wetland Park & Nature Trail is a restored wetland, offering habitat to a variety of native flora and fauna. In addition, the park serves as a green infrastructure storm water mitigation project, currently storing ...more ↓

Eastern Leaf-footed Bug 1
Leptoglossus phyllopus
Eumesosoma 2
Bluets 3
Enallagma
Salt Marsh Moth 4
Estigmene acrea
Keeled Treehopper 5
Entylia carinata
Big-eyed Toad Bug 5
Gelastocoris oculatus
Four-spotted Pennant 6
Brachymesia gravida
Bold Jumping Spider 7
Phidippus audax
sow thistles 8
Sonchus
common water hyacinth 9
Pontederia crassipes
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 10
Nyctanassa violacea
Golden Tortoise Beetle 11
Charidotella sexpunctata
Paper Wasps 12
Polistinae
Keeled Treehopper 5
Entylia carinata
Predaceous Diving Beetles 13
Dytiscidae
Leaf Beetles 14
Chrysomelidae
Ascra bifida 15
Glass Shrimp 16
Palaemon affinis
Rambur's Forktail 17
Ischnura ramburii
Leptoglossus 18
Pale-striped Flea Beetle 19
Systena blanda
Lantana 20
Blue-banded Lema Leaf Beetle 21
Lema solani
Pinkladies 22
Oenothera speciosa
Eumolpinae 23
Glossy Ibis 24
Plegadis falcinellus
Southern Two-striped Walkingstick 25
Anisomorpha buprestoides
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad 26
Gastrophryne carolinensis
Green Sunfish 27
Lepomis cyanellus
Bluegill 28
Lepomis macrochirus
Southern Toad 29
Anaxyrus terrestris
Barred Owl 30
Strix varia

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