Images of individual organisms

• Turtle A turtle for all herpetophiles.
• Monarch butterfly. A butterfly that is highly poisonous due to the fact that it accumulates cardiac glycosides by eating milkweed plants as a larva.
• Viceroy. An attractive butterfly
• Daddy longlegs. An arthropod that is not really a spider.
• Whitetail deer. A common grazer in eastern forests.

Plants

• Bur-reed (Sparganium) A wetland species that has head-like clusters of green flowers.
• Seedlings of jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) This shot shows a population of jewelweed seedlings in the Kirby Park Natural Area of Luzerne County. The two photosynthetic cotyledons of each seedling are clearly visible. Jewelweed is an interesting forest species because, as an annual, populations must develop from seed each year. The species is immensely successful in the Kirby Park Natural Area, forming an almost pure stand throughout much of the park.
• Follicles of the common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) Milkweed produces its seeds within pods, which are technically known as follicles. Each follicle is made up of a single carpel and splits open along a single suture.

Fungi

• Shelf fungus on trunk This image shows a cut tree stump adjacent to South River Street in Wilkes-Barre on which the fruiting bodies of several large fungi are borne. The fruiting bodies represent the reproductive portions of a fungus that has apparently invaded the stump, and is undoubtedly decomposing it.