Field and Swamp: Animals and Their Habitats

Bird pages: Land Birds Shore Birds Bird Blog Red-shouldered Hawks Duke Gardens exotic ducks Audubon Swamp Garden Zoo Birds    Insect (by taxonomic order) pages: Coleoptera (Beetles) Dictyoptera (Mantids & Cockroaches) Diptera (True Flies) Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha (Cicadas and Hoppers) Hemiptera: Heteroptera (True Bugs) Hemiptera: Aphididae (Aphids) Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps, Sawflies & Ants) Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea (Skippers) Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea (True Butterflies) Lepidoptera: Butterfly & Skipper Index Lepidoptera: Moths Megaloptera (Fishflies), Mecoptera (Scorpionflies) Neuroptera (Lacewings) Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets) Odonata: Anisoptera (Dragonflies) Odonata: Zygoptera (Damselflies)    Reptile/Amphibian/Alligator pages: Snakes Lizards Alligators Audubon Swamp Garden (Alligators, turtles) Turtles Frogs and Toads Salamanders Zoo Reptiles    Spiders, other animal pages: Spiders Ticks and Mites Mammals Zoo Mammals Fish Crustaceans Other Arthropods Annelids (segmented worms) Mollusks  

Aerial Photos

Downtown Minneapolis, MN  11/15/09   Downtown Minneapolis, with the Minnesota Twins Ballpark on the right.  Note the two large lakes in the background.  Photo by Paul Leskovac, lead project architect for the newly built ballpark. A closer view of the Twins Ballpark shown on the left.  This shows where Leskovac spotted a Giant Water Bug,  about 90 feet off the ground, and where it flew (shown with red arrows).  Leskovac took this photo too on 11/15/09.   Miami, Dade County, FL  10/27/08     Miami and Miami Beach Miami downtown Miami neighborhood       Miami offshore   Close-up View of Hurricane Katrina Surge   Photo taken by student at St. Stanislaus College in Bay St. Louis, MS.  Rights to this photo belong to St. Stanislaus.