• About the Ecosystems along the way
• Plants and Fungi (Mosses, Ferns, Conifers, Angiosperms and more)
• Animals (Mammals, Birds, Fish, Invertebrates)

Insects

Approximately half of all known species are insects. there are currently about 750,000 species identified in 35 Orders and possibly twice that number not yet discovered. Along the Pacific Coast where we'll be traveling there are sure to be many insects that we'll encounter. We'll document what we see as we come across it. Here are a few we know we'll encounter.

	Mosquitoes Family Culicidae		Black Flies Family Simuliidae
	Ants Formicidae		Bumble bees Family Apidae
	Sulphur butterflies Family Pieridae		Swallowtail butterfly Family Papilionidae