Native Fauna of the Southern Appalachians
Animal species native to the Southern Appalachian region of the US, including the states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and South Carolina.
Photos primarily from the following ecoregions: the Southern Metasedimentary Mountains/Southern Shale Valleys of Georgia, the Southern Ridge and Valley of Georgia, and the Southern Table Plateaus of Alabama.
Flown Kimmerling created this list 7 years ago
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Black-spotted Schrankia (Schrankia macula) -
Strangalepta abbreviata -
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) -
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) -
Banded Hairstreak (Satyrium calanus) -
Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos) -
Eastern Bark Centipede (Hemiscolopendra marginata) -
Eastern Bark Centipede (Hemiscolopendra marginata) -
Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis) -
Eastern Black Carpenter Ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) -
Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus) -
Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) -
Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) -
Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) -
Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) - Basking -
Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis) - Basking -
Trash Bug - Lacewing Larva Carrying Lichen Debris -
Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) with Egg Sac -
Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus diferentialis)? -
Blueberry Stem Gall Wasp (Hemadas nubilipennis) -
Phylloxera spinosa -
Ocellate gall midge (Acericecis ocellaris) -
Bullet Gall Wasp (Disholcaspis quercusglobulus) -
Oak Leaf Galls (Polystepha pilulae)