APPENDIX A: Plant and Animal Identification Cards

Name: Desert Hairy Scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis Lives: Desert. Eats: Insects and sometimes small lizards.

Name: Jerusalem Cricket Stenopelmatus fuscus Lives: Hillsides and valley slopes. Eats: Plant roots and insects.

Name: Horned Lizard Lives: Desert - hot, dry and sandy areas. Eats: Ants are their major source of food.

Name: Havester Ant Lives: Bare, sandy areas. Eats: Seeds.

Name: Kit Fox Vulpes velox Lives: Desert areas, short grass praires. Eats: Rabbits, ground squirrels, rats, mice, birds, insects, grasses, and berries.

Name: Curve-billed Thrasher Lives: Desert scrub - they nest in cholla thickets and mesquite clumps Eats: Insects and succulent fruits.

Photo Credit: Paul and Shirley Berquist

Name: Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus Lives: Desert Scrub. Eats: Seeds, insects, and fruits.

Photo Credit: Paul and Shirley Berquist

Name: Gila (HEE-lah) Monster Heloderma suspectum Lives: Desert scrub. Eats: Bird eggs, babies and small rodents.

Photo Credit: Chris Butcher

Name: Red Velvet Ant Dasymutilla magnifica Lives: Arid and semi-arid open lands. Eats: Nectar.

Photo Credit: Merlin Tuttle, Bat Conservation International

Name: Lesser Long-nose bat Leptonycteris curasoae Lives: Desert areas with flowering cactus Eats: Nectar from the saguaro and other cacti.

Name: Centipede Lives: Under Rocks. Eats: Small insects.

Photo Credit: Chris Butcher

Name: Teddy Bear Cholla (CHO-yas) Optuntia bigelovii Notes: Cholla is a small tree. In late spring, pale green or white flowers bloom. The yellow fruit is 1 inch long and oval-shaped. The fruit persists through the winter and is hidden by the densely-spined branches.

Name: Desert Tarantula Aponopelma chalcodes Lives: Desert Soil. Eats: Insects and sometimes small lizards.