2016 Lep, Ode, Herp, Mammal Year Lists

2016 was the first year I paid really any attention to Leps, Odes, Herps, and Mammals. Although my year list for each isn't all that impressive,  I still ended up with a few dozen species. Listed in rough taxonomic order. Lifers are in Bold.

Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths): 

1. Silver-spotted Skipper

   

   Silver-spotted Skipper

2. Dun Skipper
3. Broad-winged Skipper
4. Peck's Skipper
5. Common Checkered Skipper
6. European Skipper
7. Giant Swallowtail
8. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
9. Black Swallowtail
10. Spicebush Swallowtail
11. Cabbage White
12. Orange Sulphur
13. Clouded Sulphur
14. Acadian Hairstreak

    

    Acadian Hairstreak

15. Banded Hairstreak
16. Eastern Tailed Blue
17. Great Spangled Fritillary
18. Tawny Crescent
19. Northern Crescent
20. Pearl Crescent
21. Common Buckeye
22. Mourning Cloak
23. Eastern Comma
24. Red Admiral
25. Viceroy
26. White Admiral
27. Red-spotted Purple

    

    Eyed Brown

28. Common Wood-Nymph
29. Monarch
30. Eyed Brown
31. Common Ringlet
32. Virginia Ctenucha
33. Chain-dotted Geometer
34. Hummingbird Clearwing

Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies):

1. Common Green Darner
2. Canada Darner

   

   Halloween Pennant

3. Unicorn Clubtail
4. Prince Baskettail
5. Calico Pennant
6. Halloween Pennant
7. Eastern Pondhawk
8. Widow Skimmer
9. Twelve-spotted Skimmer
10. Eastern Pondhawk
11. Eastern Amberwing
12. Common Whitetail
13. White-faced Meadowhawk



Ebony Jewelwing

14. Ruby Meadowhawk
15. Band-winged Meadowhawk
16. Autumn Meadowhawk 
17. Black Saddlebags
18. Ebony Jewelwing
19. River Jewelwing
20. Emerald Spreadwing
21. Variable Dancer
22. Tule Bluet
23. Familiar Bluet
24. Marsh Bluet

    

    Orange Bluet

25. Skimming Bluet
26. Orange Bluet
27. Sedge Sprite
28. Eastern Forktail
29. Fragile Forktail

Herps (Reptiles and Amphibians):

1. Blanding's Turtle

   

   Blanding's Turtle

2. Midland Painted Turtle
3. Northern Map Turtle
4. Snapping Turtle
5. Spiny Softshell
6. Eastern Gartersnake
7. Five-lined Skink
8. American Bullfrog
9. American Toad
10. Gray Treefrog
11. Green Frog

    

    Eastern Gartersnake

12. Northern Leopard Frog
13. Spring Peeper
14. Western Chorus Frog
15. Wood Frog

Mammals:

1. White-tailed Deer

   

   Moose

2. Moose
3. Striped Skunk
4. Raccoon
5. Coyote
6. Meadow Vole
7. Muskrat
8. Beaver
9. Eastern Chipmunk
10. Woodchuck
11. Red Squirrel

    

    Red Squirrel

12. Eastern Gray Squirrel
13. Eastern Cottontail
14. Snowshoe Hare
15. Little Brown Bat