Youth involved in Mississippi State University’s Bug and Plant Camp (http://www.entomology.msstate.edu/bugcamp/index.asp) collected and identified insects and other arthropods from the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge June 15-19, 2014. Refuge collection sites included: Douglass Bluff Road, Dr. Ray Watson Trail, the terminus of Keaton Tower Road, and around the pavilion near the refuge’s work center. Off-refuge sites include: MSU’s Entomology Building***, Layton’s Farm**, and MacGowan’s Farm*. Data compiled by MSU biology student, Breanna Lyle.
Blattodea Hemiptera Neuroptera American Cockroach (1)*** Cicada (1) Dobsonflies (5) German Cockroach (2)*** Leaffooted Bug (3) Mantisfly (1) Wood Roach (3) Leafhopper (9) Owlfly (1) Spittlebug (7) Coleoptera Stinkbug (2) Odonata Bess Beetle (4) Water Scorpion (4) Damselflies (3) Blister Beetle (1) Dragonflies (25) (approx. 15 spp.) Click Beetle (9) Hymenoptera Clown Beetle (5) Blue Mud Orthoptera Diving Beetle (3) Bumblebees (2) Camel Cricket (16) Dogbane Beetle (8)* Carpenter Ants (3) Field Cricket (3) Eyed Elater (2) Carpenter Bees (5) Grasshopper (20)** Fiery Searcher (1) Dauber (2) Longhorn Grasshopper (1) Glowworm (20)* Honeybees (9)*** Grapevine Beetle (10) Ichneumon Wasps (3) Phasmida Ground Beetle (4) Paper Wasps (4) Walking Stick (18) (all found on beauty berry) Ladybug (1) Velvet Ant (2) Longhorn Beetles (4) Plecoptera Milkweed Beetle (6) Isoptera Stoneflies (6) Rose Chafer (4) Termite Rove Beetle (2) Stag Beetle (2) Lepidoptera Other Arthropods: Scarab Beetles (30) Clearwing Moth (1) Tiger Beetle (1) Dogface Sulfur Butterfly (2)* Diplopoda Hummingbird Moth (1) Centipede Diptera Imperial Moth (1) Millipede (3 spp.) Asian Tiger (1) Monarch Butterfly (2)*** Blowfly (3) Painted Lichen Moth (1) Spiders Cranefly (3) Pipevine Swallowtail** Black Widow Horsefly (30) Skipper (2) Brown Lynx Spider Housefly (2) Sphinx Moth (1) Crab Spider Hoverfly (4) Tiger Swallowtail (1)*** Fishing Spider (2 spp.) Mosquito (1) Viceroy Butterfly (1) Giant Lichen Orb Weaver Robber Fly (3) Golden Argiope Mantodea Goldenrod Crab Spider Ephemeroptera Carolina Mantis (5) Grass Spider Mayflies (5) Chinese Mantis (7) Green Lynx Jumping Spider (10 spp.) Megaloptera Nursery Web Spider Fishflies (2) Orb Weaver (4-5 spp.) Southern Black House Spider (male & female) Wolf Spider (5 spp.)