Dates: June 3-4
Location: The scientists surveyed a two-mile radius around the Two Rivers Magnet Middle School. Within this area are sections of the Connecticut and Hockanum Rivers, floodplain forests, freshwater ponds, and open fields.
Total number of species 1791
Mammals 20
Reptiles & Amphibians 15
Birds 92
Fish 29
Higher Plants 353
Lower Plants 61
Fungi 60
Parasites 33
Protists & Non-arthropod Invertebrates 142
Insects
Coleoptera 184
Diptera 118
Hymenoptera 110
Lepidoptera: macromoths 173
Lepidoptera: micromoths 101
Lepidoptera: butterflies 25
Odonata 17
Orthoptera 15
Other Aquatic Insects 45
Homoptera 33
Hemiptera 26
Non-insect Terrestrial Arthropods
Springtails, centipedes, opilionids,
millipedes, thrips & isopods 29
Mites 33
Spiders 77
Total number of scientist 170
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