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Welcome to Floridensis

All photographs on Floridensis were composed and processed by Janson Jones, a Volusia county native raised in the tangles of the Tomoka basin and Ormond Beach. Though most posts will focus on Floridian wildlife, ecology, and environments, please note that Floridensis will also share perspectives from across the North American continent -- all the way up and west to Alaska. All photographed organisms were wild and non-captive unless explicitly noted otherwise. A species index is provided below; more general categorical links are provided in the top-banner menu. This iteration of Floridensis was born on 29 May 2019.

The TOMOKA & BULOW Circuit: Photographs from the Ormond Beach area through and around the Tomoka Basin. Includes Tomoka, Bulow Creek, North Peninsula, and Bulow Plantation Ruins State Parks.

NERODIA Watersnakes: Photographs of all non-venomous Nerodia watersnakes featured on Floridensis to date. Includes species photographed in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.

HYPOCREALES (Fungi)
• Ophiocordyceps parasitic fungi

POLYPORALES (Shelf Fungi)
• White-pored chicken of the woods

ARECALES (Palms)
• Cabbage palmetto

POALES (Grasses)
• Sea oates

BIVALVE MOLLUSKS
• Coming Soon

GASTROPOD MOLLUSKS
• Cuban brown snail

BARNACLES
• Coming Soon

CRABS
• Mangrove tree crab
• Speckled crab
• Flame-streaked box crab
• Atlantic blue crab
• Giant land crab
• Caribbean land hermit crab
• Atlantic sand crab
• Blackback land crab
• Mangrove root crab
• Thin-shelled rock crab
• Dolly varden crab
• Atlantic sand fiddler crab
• Portly spider crab
• Atlantic ghost crab
• Mottled shore crab
• Atlantic mud crab
• Mottled purse crab
• Green porcelain crab
• Tidal spray crab
• Sargassum swimming crab

SPIDERS
• Bifurcate trashline orbweaver
• Twinflagged jumping spider
• Yellow garden spider
• Sylvana jumping spider
• Coras funnel web spider
• Ogre-faced spider
• Okefenokee fishing spider
• Six-spotted fishing spider
• Tropical orbweaver
• Eustala orbweaver
• Spinybacked orbweaver
• Giant crab spider
• Hibana ghost spider
• Yellow ghost spider
• Carolina wolf spider
• Field wolf spider
• Southern house spider
• Furrow orbweaver
• Brown widow
• Argyra orchard orbweaver
• Venusta orchard orbweaver
• Magnolia jumping spider
• Spined micrathena
• Arrow-shaped micrathena
• Myrmekiaphila trapdoor spider
• Arabesque orbweaver
• Spotted orbweaver
• Red-femured spotted orbweaver
• Golden silk orbweaver
• Green lynx spider
• Rabid wolf spider
• Selenops wall crab spider
• Triangulate combfoot spider
• Silver long-jawed orbweaver
• Long-jawed orbweavers
• Tigrosa annexa wolf spider
• Trachelas spiders
• Arrowhead orbweaver

CENTIPEDES
• Florida Keys centipede

MILLIPEDES
• North American millipede

MANTIDS
• Grizzled mantis

ANTS, BEES, WASPS, Etc
• Neotropical paper wasp
• Bahamian paper wasp

CICADAS
• N. dusk-singing cicada
• Resonant cicada
• Hieroglyphic cicada
• Lyric cicada
• Similar dog-day cicada

TRUE BUGS (Non-Cicada)
• Giant leaf-footed bug

BEETLES
• Harlequin flower beetle

MOTHS
• Eastern grass tubeworm
• Luna moth
• Wittfeld's forester
• Spiny oakworm moth
• Pink-striped oakworm moth
• Polyphemus moth
• Spotted apatelodes moth
• Black witch moth
• Ailanthus webworm moth
• Io moth
• Pink-shaded fern moth
• Laugher moth
• Angle-winged emerald moth
• Soybean looper moth
• Angle-lined prominent moth
• Scarlet-bodied wasp moth
• Manto tussock moth
• Pickleworm moth
• Rosy maple moth
• Imperial moth
• Spotted oleander moth
• White furcula moth
• Banded tussock moth
• Harris's three-spot moth
• Five-spotted hawk moth
• Southern flannel moth
• Live oak metria moth
• Red-bordered emerald moth
• Skiff moth
• Echo moth
• Agreeable tiger moth
• Sweetpotato armyworm
• Black-dotted spragueia moth

BUTTERFLIES
• Gulf fritillary
• Great southern white
• Polydamas swallowtail
• Queen butterfly
• Eastern giant swallowtail
• Eastern tiger swallowtail
• Palamedes swallowtail

DRAGONFLIES etc
• Common green darner
• Four-spotted pennant
• Ebony jewelwing
• Halloween pennant
• Regal darner
• Scarlet skimmer
• Swamp darner
• Prince Baskettail
• Eastern pondhawk
• Seaside dragonlet
• Citrine forktail
• Lilypad forktail
• Rambur's forktail
• Bar-winged skimmer
• Slaty skimmer
• Great blue skimmer
• Royal river cruiser
• Roseate skimmer
• Blue dasher
• Eastern amberwing
• Common whitetail
• Carolina saddlebags

GRASSHOPPERS
• Long-headed toothpick
• American shieldback
• Short-winged green grasshopper
• Eastern lubber grasshopper
• American bird grasshopper
• Mischievous bird grasshopper
• Rusty bird grasshopper

SHARKS & RAYS
• Cownose ray

BONY FISH
• Northern puffer

FROGS & TOADS
• Dwarf american toad
• Oak toad
• Southern toad
• Eastern spadefoot
• Greenhouse frog
• Eastern narrowmouth toad
• Southern cricket frog
• Pine woods treefrog
• Squirrel treefrog
• Barking treefrog
• Cope's gray treefrog
• Green treefrog
• Cuban treefrog
• Spring peeper
• Plains leopard frog
• Bronze frog
• Southern leopard frog
• American bullfrog
• Pig frog
• Wood frog

AMPHIUMAS
• Two-toed amphiuma

SALAMANDERS
• Dwarf salamander

TURTLES
• Florida softshell turtle
• Spiny softshell turtle
• Common snapping turtle
• Gopher tortoise
• Striped mud turtle
• Eastern mud turtle
• Florida red-bellied cooter
• Loggerhead musk turtle
• Common musk turtle
• Eastern box turtle
• Ornate box turtle
• Common slider

LIZARDS
• African redhead agama
• Six-lined racerunner
• Western whiptail
• Carolina green anole
• Puerto Rican crested anole
• Hispaniolan green anole
• Hispaniolan stout anole
• Bark anole
• Cuban knight anole
• Jamaican giant anole
• Cuban brown anole
• Brown basilisk
• Eastern collared lizard
• Black spiny-tailed iguana
• Indo-Pacific gecko
• Tropical house gecko
• Mediterranean gecko
• Green iguana
• Northern curly-tailed lizard
• Eastern glass lizard
• Southeastern five-lined skink
• Broadhead skink
• Plateau fence lizard
• Eastern fence lizard
• Florida scrub lizard
• Little brown skink
• Ornate tree lizard
• Common side-blotched lizard

SNAKES
• Florida cottonmouth
• Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
• Timber rattlesnake
• Pigmy rattlesnake
• Eastern coral snake
• Florida scarlet snake
• Black racer snake
• Ringneck snake
• Mud snake
• Rough earth snake
• Brahminy blindsnake
• Scarlet kingnsnake
• Eastern kingsnake
• Striped swamp snake
• Eastern coachwhip
• Salt marsh watersnake
• Salt marsh x Banded watersnake
• Plainbelly watersnake
• Banded watersnake
• Florida green watersnake
• Diamondback watersnake
• Northern watersnake
• Brown watersnake
• Rough green snake
• Eastern "Yellow" rat snake
• Eastern "Gray" rat snake
• Eastern "Everglades" rat snake
• Red "Corn" rat snake
• Burmese python
• Ball python
• Pine woods littersnake
• Desert patchnose snake
• Florida brown snake
• Eastern garter snake
• Peninsula ribbon snake

CROCODILIANS
• American alligator
• Spectacled caiman
• American crocodile

PELECANIFORMES
• Great blue heron
• Little blue heron
• Reddish egret
• Snowy egret
• Tricolored heron
• American white ibis
• Roseate spoonbill

MARSUPIALIA
• Virginia opossum

CARNIVORA
• American mink
• Raccoon

PRIMATES
• Human