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REPTILES |
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Snapping turtle |
Red-bellied snake (throughout NE MN but not recorded on the property yet) |
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Painted turtle |
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Eastern garter snake |
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SALAMANDERS |
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Blue-spotted salamander |
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Red-backed salamander |
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FROGS AND TOADS (in order heard calling each spring) |
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Wood frog |
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Spring peeper |
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Boreal chorus frog |
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American toad |
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Gray treefrog |
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Leopard frog |
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Green frog |
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Mink frog |
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FISH seen in Woods Lake |
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Bluegills (very small) |
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Yellow perch (small) |
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Northern pike (very small) |
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FISH seen in stream |
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Northern pike (spawning) |
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Rainbow smelt (spawning) |
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Bluegills (small) |
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FISH seen while snorkeling in Eagles Nest Lake One |
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Walleye |
Yellow perch |
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Northern pike |
Black crappie |
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Bluegills |
Rock bass |
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Smallmouth bass |
White sucker |
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Largemouth bass |
Rainbow smelt |
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Pumpkinseeds |
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MOTHS seen at lights on the Research Center |
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Luna Actias |
Grammia virgo |
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Luna Polyphemus |
Canadian sphinx |
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Antheraea polyphemus |
Sphinx canadensis |
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Hummingbird clearwing |
Apple sphinx |
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Hemaris thysbe |
Sphinx gordius |
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Big poplar sphinx |
Small-eyed sphinx |
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Pachysphinx modesta |
Paonias myops |
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Ctenucha virginica |
Twin-spotted sphinx |
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Rose hooktip |
Smerinthus jamaicensis |
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Oreta rosea |
Blinded sphinx |
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St Lawrence tiger moth |
Paonias excaecatus |
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Platarctia parthenos |
One-eyed sphinx |
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Virgin tiger moth |
Smerinthus cerisyi |
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BUTTERFLIES |
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Tiger Swallowtail |
Red Admiral |
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Monarch |
Fire Rim Tortoise Shell |
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Painted Lady |
Common Sulfur |
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American Painted Lady |
Alfalfa |
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Compton's Tortoise Shell |
Cabbage |
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Green Comma |
White Streamside |
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Atlantis Fritillary |
Checkerspot |
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Great Spangled Fritillary |
Question Mark |
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White Admiral |
Tawny Crescent |
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Wood Nymph |
Orange Crescent |
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Pearly Eye |
Harvester |
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DAMSELFLIES AND DRAGONFLIES to look for.
Unlike the above species actually seen on the Research Center property, following is a list of 96 Odonata recorded by the USGS for nearby counties (Cook, Lake, St Louis, Itasca, and Koochiching Counties) or listed by Catling and Brownell (2000) for adjacent portions of Ontario in the Thunder Bay, Rainy River, and Kenora Districts.
Calopteryx aequabilis (Say, 1839) - River Jewelwing
Lestes congener (Hagen, 1861) - Spotted Spreadwing
L. disjunctus (Selys, 1862) - Common Spreadwing
L. dryas (Kirby, 1890) - Emerald Spreadwing
L. forcipatus (Rambur, 1842) - Sweetflag Spreadwing
L. inaequalis (Walsh, 1862) - Elegant Spreadwing
L. rectangularis (Say, 1839) - Slender Spreadwing
L. unguiculatus (Hagen, 1861) - Lyre-tipped Spreadwing
Argia moesta (Hagen, 1861) - Powdered Dancer
Coenagrion angulatum (Walker, 1912) - Prairie Bluet
C. interrogatum (Selys, 1876) - Subarctic Bluet
C. resolutum (Selys, 1876) - Taiga Bluet
Enallagma boreale (Selys, 1875) - Boreal Bluet
E. carunculatum (Morse, 1895) - Tule Bluet
E. civile (Hagen, 1861) - Familiar Bluet
E. cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840) - Northern Bluet
E. cyathigerum vernale - Spring Bluet
E. ebrium (Hagen, 1861) - Marsh Bluet
E. exsulans (Hagen, 1861) - Stream Bluet
E. hageni (Walsh, 1863) - Hagen's Bluet
Nehalennia irene (Hagen, 1861) - Sedge Sprite
Aeshna canadensis (Walker, 1908) - Canada Darner
A. constricta (Say, 1839) - Lance-tipped Darner
A. eremita (Scudder, 1866) - Lake Darner
A. interrupta (Walker, 1908) - Variable Darner
A. sitchensis (Hagen, 1861) - Zigzag Darner
A. tuberculifera (Walker, 1908) - Black-tipped Darner
A. umbrosa (Walker, 1908) - Shadow Darner
A. verticalis (Hagen, 1861) - Green-striped Darner
Anax junius (Drury, 1773) - Common Green Darner
Basiaeschna janata (Say, 1839) - Springtime Darner
Boyeria grafiana (Williamson, 1907) - Ocellated Darner
B. vinosa (Say, 1839) - Fawn Darner
Arigomphus cornutus (Tough, 1900) - Horned Clubtail
Dromogomphus spinosus (Selys, 1854) - Black-shouldered Spinyleg
Gomphus adelphus (Selys, 1858) - Mustached Clubtail
G. exilis (Selys, 1854) - Lancet Clubtail
G. fraternus (Say, 1839) - Midland Clubtail
G. graslinellus (Walsh, 1862) - Pronghorn Clubtail
G. lividus (Selys, 1854) - Ashy Clubtail
G. quadricolor (Walsh, 1863) - Rapids Clubtail
G. spicatus (Hagen in Selys, 1854) - Dusky Clubtail
G. vastus (Walsh, 1862) - Cobra Clubtail
G. ventricosus (Walsh, 1863) - Skillet Clubtail
G. viridifrons (Hine, 1901) - Green-faced Clubtail
Hagenius brevistylus (Selys, 1854) - Dragonhunter
Ophiogomphus anomalus (Harvey, 1898) - Extra-striped Snaketail
O. carolus (Needham, 1897) - Riffle Snaketail
O. colubrinus (Selys, 1854) - Boreal Snaketail
O. rupinsulensis (Walsh, 1862) - Rusty Snaketail
Stylogomphus albistylus (Hagen in Selys, 1878) - Least Clubtail
Stylurus amnicola (Walsh, 1862) - Riverine Clubtail
S. notatus (Rambur, 1842) - Elusive Clubtail
S. scudderi (Selys, 1873) - Zebra Clubtail
S. spiniceps (Walsh, 1862) - Arrow Clubtail
Cordulegaster maculata (Selys, 1854) - Twin-spotted Spiketail
Didymops D. transversa (Say, 1839) - Stream Cruiser
Macromia illinoiensis (Walsh, 1862) - Illinois River Cruiser
Cordulia shurtleffii (Scudder, 1866) - American Emerald
Dorocordulia libera (Selys, 1871) - Racket-tailed Emerald
Epitheca canis (McLachlan, 1886) - Beaverpond Baskettail
E. cynosura (Say, 1839) - Common Baskettail
E. spinigera (Selys, 1871) - Spiny Baskettail
Helocordulia H. uhleri (Selys, 1871) - Uhler's Sundragon
NeurocorduliaN. yamaskanensis (Provancher, 1875) - Stygian Shadowdragon
Somatochlora cingulata (Selys, 1871) - Lake Emerald
S. elongata (Scudder, 1866) - Ski-tailed Emerald
S. ensigera (Martin, 1906) - Plains Emerald
S. forcipata (Scudder, 1866) - Forcipate Emerald
S. franklini (Selys, 1878) - Delicate Emerald
S. hudsonica (Hagen in Selys, 1871) - Hudsonian Emerald
S. kennedyi (Walker, 1918) - Kennedy's Emerald
S. minor (Calvert in Harvey, 1898) - Ocellated Emerald
S. walshii (Scudder, 1866) - Brush-tipped Emerald
S. williamsoni (Walker, 1907) - Williamson's Emerald
Leucorrhinia borealis (Hagen, 1890) - Boreal Whiteface
L. frigida (Hagen, 1890) - Frosted Whiteface
L. glacialis (Hagen, 1890) - Crimson-ringed Whiteface
L. hudsonica (Selys, 1850) - Hudsonian Whiteface
L. intacta (Hagen, 1861) - Dot-tailed Whiteface
L. patricia (Walker, 1940) - Canada Whiteface
L. proxima (Calvert, 1890) - Red-waisted Whiteface
Libellula julia (Uhler, 1857) - Chalk-fronted Corporal
L. lydia (Drury, 1773) - Common Whitetail
L. pulchella (Drury, 1773) - Twelve-spotted Skimmer
L. quadrimaculata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Four-spotted Skimmer
Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister, 1839) - Blue dasher
Pantala flavescens (Fabricius, 1798) - Wandering Glider
Sympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861) - Variegated Meadowhawk
S. costiferum (Hagen, 1861) - Saffron-winged Meadowhawk
S. danae (Sulzer, 1776) - Black Meadowhawk
S. internum (Montgomery, 1943) - Cherry-faced Meadowhawk
S. obtrusum (Hagen, 1867) - White-faced Meadowhawk
S. occidentale (Bartenev, 1915) - Western Meadowhawk
S. rubicundulum (Say, 1839) - Ruby Meadowhawk
S. semicinctum (Say, 1839) - Band-winged Meadowhawk
S. vicinum (Hagen, 1861) - Yellow-legged Meadowhawk
