We are just getting started on understanding the invertabrate diversity of Pine Island. The numbers here will dwarf all other groups. At least 17 species of dragonfly and damselfly are just the begining, several rare butterflies have already been found. Here is a partial list.

Mourning cloak butterfly

Palamedes Swallowtail

Lone Star Tick

Eastern Tent Caterpillar

Damselfly

Skimmer

Dobson Fly

Monarch Butterfly

St Andrew's Cross spider

Crab spider

Clymene Moth

Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Sulfur butterfly

Water Scorpion

Waterboatman

Water Scavenging Beetle

Giant water bug

Bladder Snail

Lady Crab

Mole Crab

Calanoida copepod

Cyclopoida copepod

Harpacticoida copepod

Dragonfly

Flatworm

Midge - Biting

Midge - Non-biting

Mosquito

Predacious Diving Beetle

Rotifer

Roundworm

Scud

Water Flea

Water Mite

Northern Oak Hairstreak

Giant Swallowtail