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The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Fauna Project

Three participants endured very cold weather with light rain for this week's survey. Insects do not breathe through their faces; they have spiracles on the sides of their bodies to accommodate air flow into the tracheal system. The spiracles are visible as brown dots on the Green June Beetle grub shown below.

Select Photos and Complete List of Sightings:


Cotinis nitida (green June beetle larva)
photo by Val Bugh


Unknown sp. (darkling beetle larva)
photo by Val Bugh


Unknown sp. (crane fly larva)
photo by Val Bugh


Monoctenus sp. (pine sawfly)
photo by Barbara Ribble


Episemasia cervinaria (moth)
photo by Val Bugh


Bubo virginianus (great horned owl)
photo by Harriett Wolf


Plethodon albagula (western slimy salamander)
photo by Val Bugh


Tetragnatha laboriosa (silver longjawed orbweaver)
photo by Val Bugh

  • Birds:
    Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii)
    Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
    Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)
    Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
    Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)
    Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
    Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)

  • Amphibians:
    Western Slimy Salamander (Plethodon albagula)

  • Insects & Spiders:
    orderfamilygenus/speciescommon name

    lepidoptera  geometridae  Episemasia cervinaria  Moth
      tortricidae  Chimoptesis pennsylvaniana  Filigreed Moth

    coleoptera  scarabaeidae  Cotinis nitida  Green June Beetle (larva)
      tenebrionidae  Unknown sp.  Darkling Beetle (larva)

    hymenoptera  diprionidae  Monoctenus sp.  Pine Sawfly

    diptera  tipulidae  Unknown sp.  Crane Fly (larva)

    araneae  tetragnathidae  Tetragnatha laboriosa  Silver Longjawed Orbweaver

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