Nature Trivia

Arkansas Nature Trivia
By: Dr. Renn Tumlison and Kristen Benjamin

Animals	Plants
*Mammals*
Adaptations of Bones in the Mammalian Foot	Life as a Goldenrod
Characteristics of Mammalian Hair	The American Beautyberry: a Possible Mosquito Repellant
Bats Found in Arkansas	Nature's VelcroTM
The Purpose of Spots on a Baby Deer	Duckweeds
Gophers and Moles: Two Mammals Differently Adapted for Life Underground	A Local Wild Orchid Has Winter Leaves and Summer Flowers
The Biology and History of the Beaver are Tied to Its Fur and Its Dams	What Makes the "Sensitive Briar" So Sensitive?
Our Only Marsupial Is Well Adapted to Climb Trees	Dodder: a Parasite of Other Plants
Amphibians and Reptiles	Mistletoe
Hognose Snake Feeding on Toad	Some Roses and Peas Have Now Become Trees
Hognose Snake: Mimicry in the "Spreading Adder"	Sundew: A Carnivorous Plant Native to Arkansas
Poisonous Snakes of Arkansas	A Water Fern Also Can Serve As a Fertilizer
How a Frog Hibernates	The Nature of Leaves
Green Eggs and Jam: Adaptations That Help Spotted Salamanders Reproduce	Separation of Plant Pigments by Paper Chromatography
Life on a Turtle Island	Non-native Woody Plants of Arkansas
Newts Have a Double Life and Protect Themselves with Toxic Skin	Green Leaves Often Start and End As Red Leaves
*Fishes*	Miscellaneous
Fishes of Arkansas	Plant Galls
Madtoms: Catfishes That Aren't Caught on Hook and Line	Lichens: Mutualistic "Organisms"
Birds	Freshwater Algae: Desmids
Red-cockaded Woodpecker	Freshwater Algae: Diatoms
Story of a Nesting Killdeer	Medieval Witches Still Hide Their Brooms in Our Trees...
Skeletal Adaptations of Birds for Flight	The ‘Blob’ of Old Movies Is Really a Slime Mold
*Arthropods*	Salt Was One of the Earliest Commodities in Clark County
Caterpillars That Build Big Nests: Tent Caterpillars and Webworms	The Nature of Quartz
Odonates (Damselflies and Dragonflies) of Arkansas	How Fire Is Used to Manage Forests
Cicadas: Fun for Children, Omens of War for Politicians
The Praying Mantis and the Mantisfly: Very Different Insects That Converge on a Body Form	*Fungi*
Sticks That Move	A Jelly (Well, a Fungus) That Grows on Trees
How a Spider Makes a Wheel-Shaped Web (and Doesn't Get Stuck on It)	Dancing Grounds for Fairies Really Are Fungal Growths
A "Flying Scorpion" Is Harmless	Introduction to the Fungi of Arkansas
The Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle: a Common Non-native Species	Chanterelles of Arkansas
The Harvestman, or Grand-daddy Longlegs, Is Not a Spider	Organisms or Structures That Look Like Fungi – But Aren’t
Spiders of Arkansas
Some Lynx Spiders Hide in Goldenrods to Ambush Prey
Parasitoids: Small Insects That Can Be Beneficial As Biological Controls of Pests
A Black Light Makes Two Arkansas Invertebrates Glow in the Dark
Moths and Butterflies
Butterflies of Arkansas
Caterpillars of Arkansas
Caterpillars Use a Variety of Deceptive Techniques to Hide from Predators
The Monarch Is a Poisonous Butterfly
Butterflies Use Color to Display and to Hide
Digital Cameras, Moths, and Butterflies Use the Same Technique to Make an Image
Collection and Identification of Moths
Metamorphosis of a Luna Moth
Moths of Arkansas
•Acrolophidae
•Arctiidae
•Bombycidae
•Cosmopterigidae
•Cossidae
•Crambidae
•Drepanidae
•Erebidae
•Gelechiidae
•Geometridae
•Lasiocampidae
•Limacodidae
•Lymantriidae
•Megalopygidae
•Noctuidae
•Nolidae
•Notodontidae
•Oecophoridae
•Psychidae
•Pyralidae
•Saturniidae
•Sphingidae
•Thyrididae
•Tortricidae
•Yponomeutidae

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Renn Tumlison
Department of Biology
Box 7861
Henderson State University
Arkadelphia, AR 71999
Phone: (870) 230-5152
E-mail: tumlison@hsu.edu

Date Last Modified: 1 July 2009
benjamk@hsu.edu