Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee NWR BioBlitz 2022's Journal

We tallied 270 plant species during the Bio Blitz. If anyone would like to see the list with scientific names, please contact me and I'll send you the excel file. (The species are grouped by family and alphabetized by genus.) Thank you to all contributors with a special thanks to Heather Sullivan, Nicole Hodges, Jeanie Jones, and Amber Floyd.

Common Name
Looseflower Water-Willow
Elderberry
Possomhaw
Rusty Blackhaw
Broadleaf Arrowhead
Delta Arrowhead
Sweetgum
Alligatorweed
Onions
Winged Sumac
Smooth Sumac
Poison Ivy
Common Pawpaw
Queen Anne's Lace
Rattlesnake Master
Stiff Cowbane
Black Snakeroot
Whitenymph
Hemp Dogbane
Clasping Milkweed
Aquatic Milkweed
Butterfly Milkweed
Red-Ring Milkweed
Antelope Horn
Angularfruit Milkvine
Climbing Dogbane
Jasmine sp.
American Holly
Green Dragon
Shining Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (3 leaves)
Devil's Walkingstick
American Ginseng
Dwarf Palmetto
Virginia Snakeroot
Feathery False Solomon's Seal
Ebony Spleenwort
Common Ragweed
Smallfruit Beggar-Ticks
Doll's Daisy
Spiny Thistle
Carolina Elephant's Foot
Prairie Fleabane
Dogfennel
Common Boneset
Roundleaf Throughwort
Late Flowering Thoroughwort
Bushy Goldentop
Hollow Joe-Pye-Weed
Sweet Joe-Pye-Weed
Everlastings and Cudweeds
Swamp Sunflower
Sumpweed
Wild Lettuce
Shasta Daisy
Climbing Hempvine
Rattlesnake Roots
Butterweed
Carolina Desert-Chicory
Black-Eyed Susan
Ragworts
Rosinweeds
Licorice Goldenrod
Downy Ragged Goldenrod
Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster
Crownbeard
Tall Ironweed
Southern Ladyfern
Mayapple
Ironwood
Crossvine
Trumpet Creeper
American Bladdernut
Netted Chainfern
Virginia Chainfern
Wild Comfrey
Allegheny Spurge
Pale Lobelia
Venus's Looking-Glass
Japanese Honeysuckle
Strawberry Bush
Virginia Dayflower
Ohio Spiderwort
Man-of-the-Earth
Flowering Dogwood
Swamp Dogwood
Swamp Blackgum
Eastern Red Cedar
Bald Cypress
Goldenfruit Sedge
Willdenow's Sedge
Carolina Sedge
Cherokee Sedge
Fringed Sedge
White-Edge Sedge
Fescue Sedge
Greater Bladder Sedge
Kral's Sedge
Hop Sedge
Shallow Sedge
Blunt Broom Sedge
Marsh Flatsedge
Clustered Beaksedge
Woolgrass
Littlehead Nutrush
Whip Nutrush
Common Bracken
Wild Yam
Christmas Fern
Common Persimmon
Autumn Olive
Mountain Azalea
Farkleberry
Elliott's Blueberry
Deerberry
Gulf Sebastian-Bush
Ground-Nut
Eastern Redbud
Partridge Pea
Illinois Bundleflower
Hoary Ticktrefoil
Pointed-Leaf Ticktrefoil
Round-Leaved Trailing Tick-trefoil
Honeylocust
Boykin's Clusterpea
Shrub Lespedeza
Sericea Lespedeza
Hairy Lespedeza
Slender Lespedeza
Kudzu
Sidebeak Pencilflower
Goat's Rue
Low Hop Clover
Little Hop Clover
Red Clover
White Clover
Chinese Wisteria
American Beech
White Oak
Laurel Oak
Swamp Chestnut Oak
Water Oak
Willow Oak
Northern Red Oak
Post Oak
Wild Geranium
American Frogbit
St. Andrew's Cross
Lesser Marsh St. Johnswort
Shreve's Iris
Southern Blue Flag
Blue-Eyed grass
Virginia Sweetspire
Pignut Hickory
Shagbark Hickory
Soft Rush
Slender Path Rush
American Beautyberry
Virginia Bugleweed
Early Obedient Plant
Common Heal-All
Tall Mountainmint
Narrowleaf Mountainmint
Lyre-Leaf Sage
Hairy Skullcap
Helmet Skullcap
Sassafras
Turk's Cap Lily
Indian Pink
Tuliptree
Mallow sp.
Trillium
Meadowbeauty
Cupseed
Red Mulberry
American White Waterlily
Green Ash
Chinese Privet
Wingleaf Primrose-Willow
Pinkladies
Rattlesnake Fern
Green Adder's-Mouth
Florida Bluehearts
Canadian Lousewort
Royal Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Wood Sorrel spp.
Bloodroot
Purple Passionflower
Yellow Passionflower
American Pokeweed
Shortleaf Pine
Loblolly Pine
Shaggy Hedgehyssop
Beardtongue
Plantain species 1
Plantain species 2
American Sycamore
Broomsedge
Giant Cane
Brome spp.
River Oats
Longleaf Woodoats
Oatgrasses
Velvet Panicum
Hairy Rosette-Panicgrass
Bosc's Rosette-Panicgrass
Variable Panicgrass
Roundseed Panicgrass
Woolly Witchgrass
Tall Fescue
Twoflower Melicgrass
Nepalese Browntop
Muhly Grass
Basketgrass
Bahia Grass
Woodland Bluegrass
Plumegrass
Fescue
Little Bluestem
Indian Grass
Johnson Grass
Longspike Tridens
Thickleaf Phlox
Hairy Phlox
Maryland Milkwort
Curly Dock
Swamp Smartweed
Common Haircap Moss
Polytrichum Moss
Fringed Loosestrife
Windflower
Rue Anemone
Rattanvine
Black Cherry
Carolina Rose
Blackberry
Southern Dewberry
Buttonbush
Buttonweed
Licorice Bedstraw
Hairy Bedstraw
Oneflower Bedstraw
Oneleaf Bedstraw
Venus's Pride
Partridgeberry
Black Willow
Boxelder
Red Maple
Red Buckeye
Gum Bully
Lizard's Tail
American Bluehearts
Meadow Spikemoss
Saw Greenbrier
Jackson Vine
Bamboo Vine
Roundleaf Catbrier
Nightshade spp.
Peat Moss
Bladderpod
Horsesugar
Winged Elm
Smallspike False Nettle
Brazilian Vervain
Viburnums
Primrose Leaf Violet
Peppervine
Virginia Creeper
Muscadine

Reptiles and Amphibians were under-represented during the blitz with the only 8 reptiles and 11 amphibians tallied. This includes several species that were detected during scouting activities 1 - 2 days prior to the blitz (indicated by and asterisk (*)). Thank you to contributors: Brittany Barker-Jones, Linda Cambre, Katelin Cross, Patrick Delisle, Noah Devros, Amber Floyd, Lily Fulgham, Jeffrey Harris, and Dave Richardson.

Amphibians
Fowler's Toad
Cricket Frog sp.
Bird-voiced Treefrog
Green Treefrog
Cope's Gray Treefrog*
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad *
American Bullfrog
Green Frog
Southern Two-lined Salamander
Mississippi Slimy Salamander
Eastern Newt

Reptiles
American Alligator
Eastern Musk Turtle
Three-toed Box Turtle
Eastern Fence Lizard
Western Mud Snake*
Plain-bellied Watersnake*
Eastern Copperhead*
Timber Rattlesnake*

The majority of our Arthropods were, not surprisingly, insects (82 species). However, we did get several species of arachnids (5), millipedes (2) and crayfish (2) as well. Not all were able to be identified to species in the field, so they are listed as specific as possible. Thank you to all contributors, with a special thanks to Terence Schiefer for conducting a butterfly survey and to graduate students Madalyn Stoecker and Craig Sklarczyk who generated lists from public insect collections. (Insects are not organized taxonomically, but alphabetically by order.)

Arachnids
Georgia Wolf Spider
Fishing Spider
Orchard Orbweaver
Lone Star Tick
Harvestmen sp.

Millipedes
Crested Millipede sp.
American Giant Millipede Complex

Crayfish
Sharpnose Crayfish
Red Swamp Crayfish

Insects
Pennsylvania Wood Cockroach
Soldier beetle sp.
Carabid beetle sp.
Zebra Longhorn Beetle
Spotted cucumber beetle
Pink spotted lady beetle
Flower Weevil sp.
Fringed Diving Beetle
Eastern Eyed Click Beetle
Typical Fireflies sp.
Snappy Single Sync
Net-winged Beetles sp.
False Blister Beetle
Horned Passalus Beetle
June bug ap.
Rove Beetle sp.
false mealworm beetle
Darkling Beetle sp.
Polished lady beetle
Midge sp.
Limoniid Crane Fly sp.
True Horse Flies sp.
Striped Deer Fly
Cranefly sp.
Two-lined spittlebug
Leafhopper sp.
Water Boatmen sp.
Waterscorpions sp.
Florida Predatory Stinkbug
Stinkbug sp.
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Common eastern bumblebee
Southern Carpenter Bee
Carpenter ant sp.
Leafcutter bee sp.
Velvet ant sp.
Spider wasp sp.
Sawflies so,
Virginian Tiger Moth
Hoary Edge
Silver-Spotted Skipper
Horace's Duskywing
Clouded Skipper
Southern Broken Dash
Whirlabout
Southern Cloudywing
Northern Cloudywing
Spring Azure
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Cutworms and Dart Moths sp.
Moth - Noctuoidea
Goatweed Leafwing
Monarch
Common Buckeye
Southern Pearly-Eye
Viceroy
Little Wood-Satyr
Pearl Crescent
Question Mark
Red Admiral
American Lady
Pipevine Swallowtail
Zebra Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Barred Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Imperial Moth
Flannel, Slug Caterpillar, Leaf Skeletonizer, and Allied Moths
Fishfly sp.
Green Lacewing sp.
Eastern forktail
Lancet Clubtail
Halloween Pennant
Eastern Pondhawk
King Skimmers sp.
Royal River Cruiser
Cattail toothpick grasshopper
Cricket sp.
Pygmy grasshopper
Katydid sp.
Stonefly sp.
Zebra caddisfly

The final group of species recorded during the BioBlitz was fish. Fish captured using minnow traps were preserved and sent to Calvin Rezac at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Sciences for identification. Along with sightings posted on iNaturalist, we have the following 10 species:

Flier
Green Sunfish
Warmouth
Bluegill
Dollar Sunfish
Banded Pygmy Sunfish
Western Creek Chubsuckers
Redfin Pickerel
Spotted Gar
Western Mosquitofish

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee NWR BioBliz!