Tamarack Nature Preserve Photo Guides:
Grasshopper, Mantis
Reptile, Fish/Snail/Crayfish Mammal
Photography by Pilar Morera Betty Yan
Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
May 2025
Grasshopper & Mantis
Photo Guide
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Cassin’s 17-year cicada Magicicada cassinii
Northern Dog-day cicada Neotibicen canicularis
Northern Dog-day cicada - nymphs Neotibicen canicularis
Swamp cicada Neoetibicen tibicen
Lyric cicada Neoetibicen lyricen
Photography
Carolina mantis
Stagmomantis carolina
Chinese mantis Tenodera sinensis
Chinese mantis Tenodera sinensis
A Chinese mantis captured a brown wasp mantidfly
Short-winged meadow katydid
Conocephalus brevipennis
Round-tipped conehead
Neoconocephalus retusus
Straight-lanced meadow katydid
Conocephalus strictus
Greater anglewing Microcentrum rhombifolium
Photography
Say’s trig Anaxipha exigua
Columbian trig
Cyrtoxipha columbiana
Brown trig Anaxipha
Jumping bush cricket Hapithus saltator
Black-sided pygmy grasshopper Tettigidea lateralis
Two-spotted tree cricket Neoxabea
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Red-headed bush cricket Phyllopalpus pulchellus
Spotted ground cricket Allonemobius maculatus
bipunctata
Carolina grasshopper
Dissosteira carolina
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Differential grasshopper Melanoplus differentialis
Green-striped grasshopper
Chortophaga viridifasciata
Keeler’s spur-throated grasshopper Melanoplus keeleri
Ornate pygmy grasshopper Tetrix arenosa Pine tree spur-throat grasshopper Melanoplus punctulatus
Photography
Red-legged grasshopper
Melanoplus femurrubrum
Short-winged green grasshopper
Dichromorpha viridis
Scudder’s short-winged grasshopper
Melanoplus scudderi
Graceful grasshopper
Melanoplus gracilis
Reptile Photo Guide
Photography
American toad Anaxyrus americanus
Northern map turtle Graptemys geographica
Common box turtle
Terrapene carolina
Common snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina
Painted turtle Chrysemys picta
Spiny softshell turtle Apalone spinifera
Eastern box turtle
Terrapene Carolina carolina
Photography by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans
Photography
Common watersnake Nerodia sipedon
Garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis
Eastern musk turtle Sternotherus odoratus
Garter snake Thamnophis sirtalis
Fish, Snail & Crayfish
Photo Guide
Bluegill Lepomis macrochirus
Grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella
Hairy snail Trochulus hispidus
Globose dome snail Ventridens ligera
Burrowing crayfish Lacunicambarus
Prairie crayfish Procambarus gracilis
Mammal Photo Guide
by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Photography
Red fox Vulpes vulpes
Coyote Canis latrans
Groundhog Marmota monax
Eastern cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus
Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
American red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Eastern chipmunk Tamias striatus
Fox squirrel Sciurus niger
by Pilar Morera Flipbook prepared by Betty Yan
Photography
White-tailed deer - buck Odocoileus virginianus
White-tailed deer - doe Odocoileus virginianus
White-tailed deer - fawn Odocoileus virginianus