Species of the Waterville Plateau
A field guide written by kids for kids
Species List
Spiders (Kindergarten)
Black widows
Jumping spiders
Orbweavers
Butterflies (1st grade)
White-lined Sphinx moth
Monarch butterfly
Painted lady
Viceroy
Birds (2nd grade)
Great-horned owl
American robin
Northern flicker
Mourning dove
Western meadowlark
Common raven
Canada goose
Insects (3rd grade)
Lepidoptera
Odonata (dragonflies)
Hymenoptera (bees and ants)
Orange-rumped bumblebee
Jerusalem cricket
Coleoptera (beetles)
Banded alder borer, Darkling beetle
Reptiles and Amphibians (4th grade)
Short-horned lizard
Western skink
Common side-blotched lizard
Sagebrush lizard
Western rattlesnake
Western racer
Common gartersnake
Pacific tree frog
Long-toed salamander
Mammals (6th grade)
Mule deer
Black-tailed jackrabbit
Little brown myotis
Deer mouse
Washington ground squirrel
Striped skunk
Pygmy rabbit
Wild Flowers (5th grade)
Dalmation toadflax
Scarlet paint brush
Burdock
Mullein
Arrowleaf balsamroot
Blue bells
Death camas
Nettle leaf horsemint
Silky lupine
Stinging nettle
Yarrow
Desert shooting star
Ballhead waterleaf
Yellow bells
Western spring beauty
Geology - a 6th grade project
Douglas Creek basalt
Colonnade and Entablature
Palagonite
Ice age - Missoula Flood evidence
Cordilleran ice
Weathering - Split rocks
Weathering - Moraines
Dry Falls