Observaciones de mulaparthi_s_902

An insect found on a trash can outside a college campus. Very small, around 5mm in length. It's body is a circular-dome shape, with two eyes towards the front surrounded by a white part of its body. Majority of its body is red and covered in circular, black spots. There is short antnennae. Its legs are shot as well.

Defining Characteristics: a red or reddish orange body with 18 spots, some can appear to be exaggerated or eliminated.

A part of Kingdom Animalia as a protosome.They display symetry and are invertebrates.

Geographic range: U.S. and Canada. Native to eastern Asia

https://bugguide.net/node/view/397

Habitat: Protist in pond water.

Seen at 400x magnification with a microscope, appears to be 100um. Light green color darker in center
and clear towards the edge.

The defining characteristic: A unicellular green organism with semi cells divided by divisions, or incisions

Geographic distribution: wetlands and muddy streams

https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/identification/algae/identification-
guide/identify/guide/unicellular/cell-outline-has-a-deep-constriction/micrasterias

Ant found on a wood railing in a nature park. Railing was above water in a moist area. Ant is about 1.1 cm in length. It has six legs with two long antenna attaches to its head. Its body is divided into three spherical parts, with the middle more elongated than the front and end. The end part of its body is a darker color than the rest. Its eyes are black and attached to the sides of its head, away from the antennae. There appear to be two pincers towards the front of its head.

Distinctive features: golden hair on legs shorter than those on body.

Distribution: southeastern United States

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/ants/fl_carpenter_ants.htm

Lizard found in a woody area on various branches and plants near the ground. It is overall a gray/brown color, with a distinctive white stripe and two dark brown stripes down its back. The dark brown stripes extend to the length of its tail. It has black eyes and white spots on its back. It seems to be around 4.5 inches in length with a long, thin tail that becomes smaller towards the end. Its head is small and pointed.

Identifying features: the light colored stripe along he back, more bold on females.

Distribution: Cuba, the Bahamas,
North America, Hawaii, Jamaica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, parts of east coast Central America.

https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/107830

Flower with five pink, long petals where one has dark spots concentrated at the end and moving
towards the other end. The flower appears to have a width of 3.5 inches. It has pink filaments and
brown anthers, there are dark green leaves attached to the stem connected to its sepal. The sepals are
light green and fuzzy on the edges. Reproductive structures like the flower and anthers, filaments stigma
can be seen.

Habitat: Found on a bush among other flowers of its kind in a sunny area at a nature park.

Defining Characteristics: leaves that a dark green, glossy texture, and a lighter color on the bottom

Known geographic distribution: Asia, Europe, North America

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=280025&isprofil
e=0&

A medium sized bird that is primarily a light brown color with white feathers and a long, orange, curved beak. White underside and thin orange legs. About a foot and a half tall. Part of Kingdom Animalia as a Deuterostome.

Its defining characteristic is its prominent beak, which is curved downwards with a pinkish, orange color. As a deuterosome, its body also displays bilateral symmetry.

It is found in Baja California and Sinaloa, Mexico, east through south Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, coastal North Carolina, south throughout the Greater Antilles, and South America to Peru,French Guiana, and Florida.

https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/birds/waterbirds/white-ibis/

A light brown/tan bird with dark brown spots on its wings. It has a short beak with a small, round head. It has a long tail that is thinner/pointed towards the end and short legs. It is small at about 10 inches long. It was found in a nature park at shady place with trees on the ground covered with many leaves. It is a part of Kingdom Animilia as a Deuterosome, specifically a chortoda.
Some defining characteristics: displays bilateral symmetry. It is a vertebrate and has a post-anal tail.

Geographic distribution: North America; from parts of Canada and all of the US and parts of Central America

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/mourning-dove

Lichen found on tree in a nature park around other trees. Possesses a circular shape, with red on the outer edges and varying shades of light green throughout the center. There is red distributed throughout as well. It appears to have a diameter of around 2 inches.

Identifying: presence of the red color along with the circular shape it grows into.

Distribution: Southeastern US, West Indies, Central and South America

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/464189-Herpothallon-rubrocinctum

Fern found in a woody area on the ground. It is about 7 inches in height, with a stem and leaves attached in a horizontal fashion. Towards the top, the leaves get shorter, giving the appearance of an arrow head. The stem itself is very thin. The pinna have a thin rachis, which do not extend throughout the length of the leaf. The leaves become rounder toward the ends. The plant possesses green leaves and a brown stem as well as the several rachis.

Distinctive: The rounded tips of the leaves, which are also broad.

Distribution: Australia, Africa, Asia, New Zealand, south-eastern U.S.

https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/nephrolepis_cordifolia.htm

A flower with yellow heart- shaped petals that get lighter near the center. Curved filaments with yellow anthers in center. Connected to a green stem, with leaves. Flower has a diameter of about 1.5 inches. Part of Kingdom Plantae as a seeded vascular plant.

Habitat: Found in nature park in a grassy area next to a tree near the ground.

Defining characteristic: presence of flower shows it is an angiosperm. Its four large yellow petals separated by green sepals help define it as this species.

Geographic distribution:Florida, Texas, Georgia, Alabama,Mississippi

http://www.wildsouthflorida.com/peruvian.primrose-willow.html#.XHAFzVBKiUk

Light green beige color with fuzzy like leaves that appear to look like curved rods About two feet. Hanging from thin branches near the ground,roots are not in ground. Non vascular plant. Kingdom Plantae.

habitat found in:wildlife park

Distribution: Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex., Va.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America.

Reference:http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=222000404