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The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Fauna Project

Although temperatures were pleasant under heavy cloud cover for the early part of the morning, the sun later came out and really heated things up for our six participants. The pair of leafhoppers shown below are engaged in a form of courtship behavior. The male (smaller and darker) and female sit side by side, as if getting to know each other even though they are not mating. This close-up photo shows the male's front leg actually contacting the female. It's sort of like holding hands.

Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings:


Quiscalus quiscula (common grackle)
photo by Harriett Wolf


Otala lactea (garden snail)
photo by Harriett Wolf


Phlegra hentzi (jumping spider)
photo by Val Bugh


Banasa euchlora (stink bug)
photo by Val Bugh


Homalodisca vitripennis (glassy-winged sharpshooter)
photo by Val Bugh


Neokolla dolobrata (leafhopper, male & female)
photo by Val Bugh


Dictyonissus griphus (issid planthopper, nymph)
photo by Val Bugh


Villa lateralis (bee fly)
photo by Val Bugh


Unknown sp. (barklouse)
photo by Val Bugh


Chimarra sp. (black caddisfly)
photo by Val Bugh


Pachydiplax longipennis (blue dasher, male)
photo by Val Bugh


Lema trabeata (leaf beetle, larva)
photo by Val Bugh


Lema trabeata (leaf beetle, ovipositing)
photo by Val Bugh


Strangalia sexnotata (flower longhorn, male)
photo by Val Bugh


Unknown sp. (geometrid moth larva or inchworm)
photo by Val Bugh


Adelphia petrella (moth)
photo by Val Bugh


Euchromius ocelleus (grass-veneer moth)
photo by Val Bugh


Lactura sp. (moth)
photo by Val Bugh


Eulithis diversilineata (lesser grapevine looper moth)
photo by Val Bugh


Danaus gilippus (queen, male)
photo by Val Bugh

  • Birds:
    Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri)
    Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)
    Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), nestlings
    Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)
    Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
    Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

  • Misc.:
    Garden Snail (Otala lactea)

  • Insects & Spiders:
    orderfamilygenus/speciescommon name

    lepidoptera  nymphalidae  Vanessa atalanta  Red Admiral
        Vanessa cardui  Painted Lady (adult, pupa & larva)
        Euptoieta claudia  Variegated Fritillary (adult & larva)
        Agraulis vanillae  Gulf Fritillary (adult & larva)
        Junonia coenia  Common Buckeye (adult & larva)
        Danaus plexippus  Monarch
        Danaus gilippus  Queen
      pieridae  Pontia protodice  Checkered White (adult & larva)
        Colias eurytheme  Orange Sulphur
        Nathalis iole  Dainty Sulphur
      lycaenidae  Atlides halesus  Great Purple Hairstreak
        Satyrium favonius  Oak Hairstreak
        Hemiargus isola  Reakirt's Blue (adult & larva)
      hesperiidae  Pyrgus communis/albescens  Common Checkered-skipper
      noctuidae  Galgula partita  The Wedgling
        Melipotis jucunda  Merry Melipotis
        Melipotis cellaris  Moth
        Spodoptera ornithogalli  Yellow-striped Armyworm (larva)
        Zale lunata  Lunate Zale
        Catocala micronympha  Little Nymph Underwing
        Ponometia candefacta  Olive-shaded Bird Dropping Moth
        Heliothis virescens  Tobacco Budworm (larva)
        Helicoverpa zea  Corn Earworm Moth
        Eubolina impartialis  Moth
        Rachiplusia ou  Gray Looper Moth
        Trichoplusia ni  Ni Moth
      notodontidae  Schizura errucata  Prominent
      geometridae  Lobocleta ossularia  Drab Brown Wave
        Costaconvexa centrostrigaria  Bent-line Carpet
        Iridopsis defectaria  Brown-shaded Gray Moth
        Digrammia californiaria  Moth
        Anavitrinella atristrigaria  Gulf Coast Gray
        Rindgea nigricomma  Moth
        Glena quinquelinearia  Five-lined Glena
        Nematocampa resistaria  Horned Spanworm Moth
        Unknown sp.  Inchworm (larva)
        Pimaphera percata  Moth
        Eulithis diversilineata  Lesser Grapevine Looper Moth
        Prochoerodes lineola  Large Maple Spanworm Moth
        Horisme intestinata  Brown Bark Carpet
        Cyclophora nanaria  Dwarf Tawny Wave
      saturniidae  Hyalophora cecropia  Cecropia Moth (larva)
      crambidae  Mimoschinia rufofascialis  Moth
        Uresiphita reversalis  Genista Caterpillar Moth (larva)
        Euchromius ocelleus  Grass-veneer Moth
      pyralidae  Arta epicoenalis  Moth
        Peoria opacella  Grass-veneer Moth
        Adelphia petrella  Moth
        Salebriaria pumilella  Moth
      lacturidae  Lactura sp.  Moth
      elachistidae  Ethmia semilugens  Ethmia Moth
      prodoxidae  Prodoxus sp.  Bogus Yucca Moth
      gelechiidae  Stegasta bosqueella  Red-necked Peanutworm Moth
        Dichomeris costarufoella   Moth
        Gnorimoschema saphirinella  Moth
      oecophoridae  Inga cretacea  Chalky Inga
        Inga obscuromaculella  Moth
      xyloryctidae  Scythris fuscicomella  Moth
      ypsolophidae  Ypsolopha unicipunctella  Agarita Slug Moth

    coleoptera  chrysomelidae  Diabrotica undecimpunctata  Spotted Cucumber Beetle
        Lema trabeata  Leaf Beetle (adult, larva & egg)
        Metrioidea sp.  Leaf Beetle
        Systena hudsonias  Flea Beetle
      coccinellidae  Coccinella septempunctata  Seven-spotted Ladybird
        Hippodamia convergens  Convergent Ladybird
      cerambycidae  Aneflomorpha sp.  Long-horned Beetle
        Mecas cineracea  Long-horned Beetle
        Strangalia sexnotata  Flower Longhorn
      buprestidae  Acmaeodera ornatoides  Metallic Woodborer
      mordellidae  Mordellistena cervicalis  Tumbling Flower Beetle
      elateridae  Unknown sp.  Click Beetle
      carabidae  Unknown sp.  Ground Beetle
      curculionidae  Sitona californius  Broad-nosed Weevil

    hemiptera  miridae  Calocoris barberi  Plant Bug (adult & nymph)
        Halticotoma valida  Yucca Plant Bug
      reduviidae  Apiomerus spissipes  Bee Assassin
      coreidae  Narnia femorata  Cactus Bug (nymph)
        Chelinidea vittiger  Opuntia Bug (nymph)
      lygaeidae  Lygaeus kalmii  Small Milkweed Bug
      rhyparochromidae  Neopamera bilobata  Seed Bug
      rhopalidae  Harmostes sp.  Scentless Plant Bug
      pentatomidae  Banasa euchlora  Stink Bug

    homoptera  cicadellidae  Homalodisca vitripennis  Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
        Cuerna costalis  Leafhopper
        Neokolla dolobrata  Leafhopper
      issidae  Dictyonissus griphus  Planthopper (nymph)
        Thionia acuta  Planthopper

    hymenoptera  apidae  Apis mellifera  Honey Bee
        Ceratina sp.  Small Carpenter Bee
      sphecidae  Sphex ichneumoneus  Great Golden Digger Wasp
        Chalybion sp.  Blue Mud Dauber
      vespidae  Polistes carolina  Red Wasp
      chrysididae  Unknown sp.  Cuckoo Wasp
      eulophidae  Euplectrus sp.  Wasp (pupa)
      braconidae  Aleiodes sp.  Mummy Wasp (pupa)
      formicidae  Camponotus sp.  Carpenter Ant
        Crematogaster sp.  Acrobat Ant
      tenthredinidae  Unknown sp.  Common Sawfly (larva)

    diptera  dolichopodidae  Unknown sp.  Long-legged Fly
      platystomatidae  Rivellia sp.  Signal Fly
      syrphidae  Allograpta obliqua  Flower Fly
        Toxomerus marginatus  Flower Fly
        Copestylum tamaulipanum  Flower Fly
      bombyliidae  Villa lateralis  Bee Fly
      stratiomyidae  Hermetia chrysopila  Soldier Fly
      asilidae  Atomosia puella  Robber Fly
      agromyzidae  Melanagromyza sp.  Leaf-miner Fly
      sciaridae  Unknown sp.  Dark-winged Fungus Gnat
      sarcophagidae  Unknown sp.  Flesh Fly
      tachinidae  Archytas sp.  Tachinid Fly
        Unknown sp.  Tachinid Fly

    odonata  coenagrionidae  Argia immunda  Kiowa Dancer
        Argia fumipennis  Variable Dancer
        Argia plana  Springwater Dancer
        Ischnura ramburii  Rambur's Forktail
      libellulidae  Libellula croceipennis  Neon Skimmer
        Pachydiplax longipennis  Blue Dasher

    orthoptera  acrididae  Melanoplus ponderosus  Ponderous Grasshopper (nymph)
        Paraidemona sp.  Spur-throated Grasshopper
        Unknown sp.  Spur-throated Grasshopper (nymph)
      tetrigidae  Paratettix mexicanus  Pygmy Grasshopper
      tettigoniidae  Arethaea ambulator  Walking Thread-legged Katydid
        Scudderia furcata  Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (nymph)
        Dichopetala catinata  Spoon-tailed Short-winged Katydid
        Conocephalus sp.  Meadow Katydid (nymph)
        Paracyrtophyllus robustus  Truncated True Katydid (nymph)

    neuroptera  berothidae  Lomamyia sp.  Beaded Lacewing

    trichoptera  philopotamidae  Chimarra sp.  Black Caddisfly

    thysanoptera  aeolothripidae  Aeolothrips sp.  Predatory Thrips

    psocoptera  psocidae  Loensia moesta  Barklouse
        Unknown sp.  Barklouse

    araneae  tetragnathidae  Tetragnatha laboriosa  Silver Long-jawed Orbweaver
      salticidae  Phlegra hentzi  Jumping Spider
      thomisidae  Mecaphesa sp.  Crab Spider

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