Flora & Fauna
Invertebrates
Pollination
Many invertebrates, such as bees, beetles, ants and butterfly species, play a critical role in native plant pollination. Pollinators are responsbile for assisting over 80 percent of the world's flowering plants. (source: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
| COMMON NAME | SCIENTIFIC NAME |
|---|---|
| American Painted Lady | Vanessa virginiensis |
| Banded Pennant | Celethemis fasciata |
| Band-Winged Dragonlet | Erythodiplax umbrata |
| Black Saddlebags | Tramea lacerata |
| Black Swallowtail | Papilio polyxenes |
| Blue Corporal | Libellula deplanata |
| Blue Dasher | Pachydiplax longipennis |
| Blue-Faced Meadowhawk | Sympertrum ambiguum |
| Blue-Ringed Dancer | Argia sedula |
| Brazilian Skipper | Calpodes ethlius |
| Broad-striped Forceptail | Aphylla angustifolia |
| Broad-winged Skipper | Poanes viator |
| Buckeye | Juonia coenia |
| Bumble Bee | Bombus sp. |
| Calico Pennant Dragonfly | Celithemis elisa |
| Carolina Saddlebags | Tramea carolina |
| Carolina Satyr | Hermeuptychia sosybius |
| Ceraunus Blue | Hemiargus ceraunus |
| Citrine Forktail | Ischnura hastata |
| Clouded Skipper | Lerema accius |
| Cloudless Sulphur | Phoebis sennae |
| Common Baskettail | Epitheca cynosura |
| Common Buckeye | Junonia coenia |
| Common Checkered Skipper | Pyrgus communis |
| Common Green Darner | Anax junius |
| Common Whitetail | Libellula Lydia |
| Dark Swallowtail | Eurytides philolaus |
| Double-Striped Bluet | Enallagma basidens |
| Dun Skipper | Euphyes vestris |
| Eastern Amberwing | Perithemis tenera |
| Eastern Pondhawk | Erythemis simplicicollis |
| Eufalla Skipper | Lerodea eufala |
| Faded Pennant | Celithemis ornate |
| Familiar Bluet | Enallagma civile |
| Fiery Skipper | Hylephila phyleus |
| Four-spotted Pennant | Brachymesia gravida |
| Fragile Forktail | Ischnura posita |
| Gemmed satyr | Cyllopsis gemma |
| Giant Swallowtail | Papilio cresphontes |
| Goatweed Leafwing | Anaea andria |
| Gray Hairstreak | Strymon melinus |
| Great Blue Skimmer | Libellula vibrans |
| Great Pondhawk | Erythemis vesiculosa |
| Golden-winged Skimmer | Libellula auripennis |
| Grass Spider | Agelenopsis sp. |
| Gulf Fritillary | Agraulis vanillae |
| Hairstreak species | Calycopis sp. |
| Halloween Pennant | Celethemis eponina |
| Horace's Duskywing | Erynnis horatius |
| Hyacinth Glider | Miathyria marcella |
| Least Skipper | Ancyloxypha numitor |
| Little Blue Dragonlet | Erythrodiplax simplicicollis |
| Little Sulphur | Eurema lisa |
| Little Wood Satyr | Megisto cymela |
| Monarch butterfly | Danaus plexippus |
| Needham's Skimmer | Libellula needhami |
| Ocola Skipper | Panoquina ocola |
| Oklahoma Clubtail | Gomphus oklahomensis |
| Orange Bluet | Enallagma signateum |
| Orange Sulpher | Colias eurytheme |
| Palamedes Swallowtail | Papillio palamedes |
| Pearl Crescent | Phyciodes tharos |
| Phaon Crescent | Phyciodes phaon |
| Pipe-vine Swallowtail | Battus philenor |
| Praying mantis | Litaneutria minor |
| Prince Baskettail | Epitheca princeps |
| Question Mark Butterfly | Polygonia interrogationis |
| Rambur's Forktail | Ischnura ramburii |
| Rainpool spreadwing | Lestes forficula |
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta |
| Red-banded Hairstreak | Calycopis cecrops |
| Red Saddlebags | Tramea onusta |
| Red-spotted Admiral | Limenitis arthemis |
| Regal Darner | Coryphaeshna ingens |
| Roseate Skimmer Dragonfly | Orthemis ferruginea |
| Salty Skimmer | Libellula incesta |
| Sleepy Orange | Eurema nicippe |
| Southern Broken Dash | Wallengrenia otho |
| Southern Skipperling | Copaeodes minimus |
| Southern Spreadwing | Lestes disjunctus australis |
| Spicebush Swallowtail | Papilio troilus |
| Spot-winged Glider | Pantala hymenaea |
| Stillwater Clubtail | Arigomphus lentulus |
| Swallowtail species | Papilio sp. |
| Swamp Darner | Epiaeschna heros |
| Swamp Spreadwing | Lestes vigilax |
| Texan Crescent | Phyciodes texana |
| Tropical Checkered-Skipper | Pyrgus oileus |
| Variegated Fritillary | Euptoieta claudia |
| Variegated Meadowhawk | Sympetrum corruptum |
| Vesper Bluet | Enallagma vesperum |
| Wandering Glider | Pantala flavescens |
| Whirlabout | Polites vibex |
| White-Striped Longtail | Chioides sp. |
| Widow Skimmer | Libellula luctuosa |
| Wolf spider | Pisaura sp. |