Local Wildlife Species

More than 98% of the animal species in the world are invertebrates. Invertebrates are animals without an internal skeleton made of bone. Instead many of these animals have a hard outer shell, like insects and crustaceans or a fluid-filled, hydrostatic skeleton, like the jelly fish or worm. Some of the most common invertebrates include the protozoa, annelids, echinoderms, mollusks and arthropods (this includes insects, crustaceans and arachnids). The following is a preliminary checklist of the invertebrates found at the Tenafly Nature Center.

 Crustacea 
 (Class Crustacea, Subclass Ostracoda, Order Cladocera)

q Cyclops (a Copepod)

 Mollusca

q a small aquatic snail
q a slender yellow-orange slug

 Diplopoda

q Millipede - Underwoodia iuloides

 Chilopoda

q Red Centipede - Strigamia

 Annelids

q Earthworm
q Leech
q Rotifers
q Volvox
q Aquatic earthworms
q Protozoans
q Diatoms
q Phylum Coelenterata
	Hydra sp.
q Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
	Planaria sp.

 Insects

Beetles
q Eyed Click Beetle
q Lightning Bug
q Western Firefly - tree trunks in early spring
q Ladybird Beetles
q Stag Beetle
q June Beetle
q Carrion Beetle sp. 
q Burying Beetle sp.
q Rove Beetle sp.

Moths
q Ilia Underwing
q Copper Underwing
q Gypsy Moth
q Luna Moth
q White Slant-line Moth (LBP)
q Lesser Maple Spanworm Moth
q Pale Beauty
q Grape Leaf-folder Moth (LBP)
q Two-banded Petrophila Petrophila bifascialis
q Baltimore Bomoloka

Butterflies
q Monarch Butterfly
q Tiger Swallowtail
q Black Swallowtail
q Pipevine Swallowtail
q Spicebush Swallowtail
q Mourning Cloak Butterfly
q Red Admiral
q Spring Azure
q Eastern Tailed Blue
q Common Sulphur
q Painted Lady
q Cabbage Butterfly
q Northern Hairstreak
q Great Spangled Fritillary
q Hobomok Skipper
q Compton Tortoiseshell (4/13/2003)
q Question Mark (6/15/03)

Insects continued.

Dragonflies & Damselflies
q Eastern Ten-spot Dragonfly (a.k.a. Twelve-spotted Skimmer)
q Common Green Darner
q Swamp Darner (Epiaeschna heros)
q Cherry-faced or Ruby Meadowhawk (distinguishable only at 20X)
q Common Whitetail
q Blue Dasher
q Widow Skimmer
q Slaty Skimmer
q Eastern Amberwing (and others as yet unidentified)
q Civil Bluet

Crickets & Grasshoppers
q Cicada
q Periodical (17-year) Cicada (1996, due next in 2013!)
q Northern Fall Field Cricket
q Grasshopper sp.
q True Northern Katydid
q Mole Cricket
q Snowy Tree Cricket
q Chinese Mantis
q Wood Roach

Bees, wasps & hornets
q Bald-faced Hornet
q Yellow-jacket
q Cicada Killer
q Mud Dauber Wasp
q Potter Wasp
q Bumblebee
q Carpenter Bee

Ants
q Large Carpenter Ant
q Small Carpenter Ant

Other Insects
q Springtail sp.
q European Earwig
q Leafhopper sp.
q Tree Hopper sp.
q Spittlebug
q Stink Bug sp.
q Leaf-footed Bug (Hemiptera, Family Coreidae)
q Wooly Adelgid
q Water Strider
q Backswimmer
q Water Boatman
q Common House Fly
q Deer Fly
q Hover Fly sp.
q Order Diptera (two-winged flies)
	Genus Chaoborus – Phantom Midges – amphibian pond
q Mosquito sp.

 Arachnids

q Eastern Wood (Dog) Tick
q Deer Tick
q Velvet Mite
q Northern Black Widow
q Common House Spider
q Wolf Spider sp.
q Fishing Spider Sp.
q Orb Weaver sp.
	several species of crab spiders