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Snapping turtle
Painted turtle
Eastern garter snake
Red-bellied snake (throughout NE MN but not recorded on the property yet)
Blue-spotted salamander
Red-backed salamander
Wood frog
Spring peeper
Boreal chorus frog
American toad
Gray treefrog
Leopard frog
Green frog
Mink frog
Bluegills (very small)
Yellow perch (small)
Northern pike (very small)
Northern pike (spawning)
Rainbow smelt (spawning)
Bluegills (small)
Walleye
Northern pike
Bluegills
Smallmouth bass
Largemouth bass
Pumpkinseeds
Yellow perch
Black crappie
Rock bass
White sucker
Rainbow smelt
Luna Actias
Luna Polyphemus
Antheraea polyphemus
Hummingbird clearwing
Hemaris thysbe
Big poplar sphinx
Pachysphinx modesta
Ctenucha virginica
Rose hooktip
Oreta rosea
St Lawrence tiger moth
Platarctia parthenos
Virgin tiger moth
Grammia virgo
Canadian sphinx
Sphinx canadensis
Apple sphinx
Sphinx gordius
Small-eyed sphinx
Paonias myops
Twin-spotted sphinx
Smerinthus jamaicensis
Blinded sphinx
Paonias excaecatus
One-eyed sphinx
Smerinthus cerisyi
Tiger Swallowtail
Monarch
Painted Lady
American Painted Lady
Compton's Tortoise Shell
Green Comma
Atlantis Fritillary
Great Spangled Fritillary
White Admiral
Wood Nymph
Pearly Eye
Red Admiral
Fire Rim Tortoise Shell
Common Sulfur
Alfalfa
Cabbage
White Streamside
Checkerspot
Question Mark
Tawny Crescent
Orange Crescent
Harvester
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