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