Angiosperms – plants that produce flowers and bear their seeds in fruits.

Arthropoda - invertebrate animals that have a segmented body and jointed appendages.

Biodiversity -  all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area

Cladistics - a method of hypothesizing relationships among organisms

Delve - to make a careful or detailed search for information.

Diverse - differing from one another

Ecological balance - a state of dynamic equilibrium within a community of organisms in which genetic, species and ecosystem diversity remain relatively stable, subject to gradual changes through natural succession.

Ecosystem - a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.

Flower -  the bloom or blossom of a plant. 

Fruit - the fleshy or dry ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds. 

Fungi - eukaryotic organisms that include microorganisms such as yeasts, molds and mushrooms. 

Group - an assemblage of objects regarded as a unit.

Herbarium - a collection of plant samples preserved for long-term study, usually in the form of dried and pressed plants mounted on paper.

Insect - any small creature with six legs and a body divided into three parts.

Intricate -  having many complexly interrelating parts, elements, or considerations

Juice – cells or tissues extractable fluid mostly came from a fruit

Lepidoptera – monophyletic lineage has different features including scales and proboscis.

Love grass - any grass belonging to the genus Eragrostis that resembles bluegrasses but has flattened spikelets and deciduous lemmas.

Mantises - any of a group of big, mostly green insects called Mantodea, notably the family Mantidae, which catch their prey with their forelimbs raised in a prayer-like posture.

Manure – materials that fertilizes land.

Margin – measure or degree.

Marshes – a tract of soft wet land.

Mass - a significant quantity or collection of objects in general.

Membranous – thin, pliable, and often somewhat transparent.

Metabolic - substance important to a particular metabolic process of a particular organism.

Metamorphosis - a common post-birth or post-hatching developmental change in an animal's shape or structure that is noticeable and more or less abrupt.

Migrate – to move from one place to another.

Milkweed – any of various plants that secrete latex.

Mimic – to imitate something.

Mucus - a viscid, slippery fluid that moistens and protects mucosal membranes and is typically rich in mucins.

Mycelia - the mass of intertwined filamentous hyphae that makes up, in particular, the vegetative section of a fungus's thallus and is frequently encased in another body.

Naiads – an nymph living in rivers, springs, lakes, or in fountains.

Native – originate in a particular place.

Nectar – a sweet liquid secreted in plants.

Noctuid – a medium-sized often dull-colored moths with larvae.

Odonata – an order of insects that includes dragonflies and damselflies and is distinguished by aquatic nymphal or naiad larvae and by predatory behavior in both adult and larval stages.

Omnivorous – feeds on both animals and vegetative.

Organs – a structure or parts of the body consisting of cells and tissues and perform a specific function.

Pest – an epidemic with high mortality.

Pieridae - a very large and essentially global family of butterflies that includes the cabbage butterfly, sulphur butterfly, and other species with three pairs of well-developed legs in both sexes and that are typically medium in size and white or yellow in color with dark markings, especially on the edges of the wings.

Pinnate - having comparable elements arranged on the opposing sides of an axis, much like the barbs on the rachis of a feather, to give it the appearance of a feather.

Pistil - an ovary, style, and stigma are typically identified from a single carpel or cluster of fused carpels by their size.

Parasitic – being a parasite that destroy something.

Plantation – a large group of plants under cultivation.

Plants – to put (seed) in the ground for growth.

Pods - an extended dry fruit that breaks open along a seam and contains seeds that may be connected to the pod wall. It develops from one or more flower carpels.

Pollinators – an agent that pollinates flower.

Ponds – a smaller body of water.

Predators – an organisms that kills to obtain food.

Prominent – stands out.

Pupa - an intermediate, mostly dormant stage of a metamorphosing insect (such as a bee, moth, or beetle), usually encased in a cocoon or protective covering, that occurs between the larva and the imago and experiences internal changes wherein larval features are replaced by those typical of the imago.

Prey – an organism killed by a predator to be a food.

Raw – not being finished or cook.

Rehydration – to restore fluid inside the body.

Relationship – being related to someone.

Reside – to occupy a place as one’s legal domicile.

Riverbanks- the bank of a river.

Roadway – part of a bridge that is usually used by vehicles like truck, car, or motorcycle.

Root - the mostly underground portion of a seed plant's body that typically develops from the hypocotyl and serves as an organ of absorption, aeration, and food storage as well as a means of anchorage and support. It varies from a stem in particular by being devoid of nodes, buds, and leaves.

Saline: a liquid mixture of salt and pure water, used to kill bacteria or to replace liquid lost from the body.

Sanctuaries: protection or a safe place, especially for someone or something being chased or hunted.

Sandy: consisting of or containing sand : full of sand.

Sap: the fluid part of a plant.

Saprobic: living in or being an environment rich in organic matter and relatively free from oxygen.

Saprophytic: obtaining food by absorbing dissolved organic material.

Saprotrophic: a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter.

Sarcophagidae: a family of dipteran flies of the superfamily Muscoidea that include flesh flies, some that cause myiases, and others that develop in organic materials (as manure).

Saussurea: a genus of herbs (family Compositae) found mostly in temperate and cool regions of Eurasia with heads of blue or purple flowers that resemble thistles.

Savanna: a temperate grassland with scattered trees.

Scarabaeidae: a family of stout-bodied lamellicorn beetles now usually restricted to beetles.

Scrophulariales: used in some classification systems; often included in the order Polemoniales.

Scrub: a stunted tree or shrub.

Sessile: attached directly by the base : not raised upon a stalk or peduncle.

Shrubland: land on which shrubs are the dominant vegetation.

Skimmer: any of a small genus (Rynchops) of long-winged marine birds that have the lower mandible longer than the upper.

Solanaceae: of or relating to the nightshade family of plants.

Solanales: an order of dicotyledonous plants comprising Solanaceae and related families that are now usually included among the Polemoniales.

Solenopsis: a genus of small stinging ants including several abundant tropical and subtropical forms (as the imported fire ants).

Specimen: an individual, item, or part considered typical of a group, class, or whole.

Sphingidae: a family of typically large heavy-bodied strong-flying moths with narrow elongated wings that comprise the hawk moths.

Spikelets: a small or secondary spike.

Stamen: a microsporophyll of a seed plant.

Stem: the main trunk of a plant.

Stimuli: an agent (such as an environmental change) that directly influences the activity of a living organism or one of its parts.

Stoloniferous: bearing or developing stolons.

Stomata: any of various small simple bodily openings especially in a lower animal.

Stunted: to hinder the normal growth, development, or progress.

Substrate: the base on which an organism lives.

Subtropical: of, relating to, or being the regions bordering on the tropical zone.

Symbiotic: characterized by, living in, or being a close physical association (as in mutualism or commensalism) between two or more dissimilar organisms.

Symposium: a formal meeting at which several specialists deliver short addresses on a topic or on related topics.

Synanthropic: an undomesticated organism and especially an animal (such as a mouse, pigeon, or raccoon) that lives in close association with people and benefits from their surroundings and activities.

Synapomorphy: a character or trait that is shared by two or more taxonomic groups and is derived through evolution from a common ancestral form.

Syrphidae: a large and widely distributed family of cyclorrhaphous dipterans.

Systematics: the classification and study of organisms with regard to their natural relationships : taxonomy.

Taproot: a primary root that grows vertically downward and gives off small lateral roots.

Tendrils: a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support.

Thelytokous: producing only females.

Thickets: a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees.

Thorax: the part of the vertebrate body between the neck and the abdomen.

Tibia: the inner and usually larger of the two bones of the vertebrate hind or lower limb between the knee and ankle.

Tiliaceous: a family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Malvales) distinguished chiefly by the free stamens and 2-celled anthers.

Tremellaceae: a family of basidiomycetous fungi (order Tremellales) having the basidium longitudinally or obliquely septate or divided.

Trichomes: a filamentous outgrowth.

Tropical: characteristic of a region or climate that is frost-free with temperatures high enough to support year-round plant growth given sufficient moisture.

Ubiquitous: existing or being everywhere at the same time.

Umbel: a racemose inflorescence typical of the carrot family in which the pedicels arise from about the same point to form a flat or rounded flower cluster.

Uncultivated:  growing or developing without care.

Underside: the side or surface lying underneath.

Unfertilized: not made fertile : not fertilized.

Uniform:  a type of probability distribution in which all outcomes are equally likely.

Upland: ground elevated above the lowlands along rivers or between hills.

Uraniidae: a family of moths containing four subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species.

Urban: of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city.

Urbanization: the quality or state of being urbanized or the process of becoming urbanized.

Urticaceae: a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees (order Urticales) including many with stinging hairs and having small monoecious, dioecious, or polygamous apetalous flowers followed by fruits that are usually achenes.

Vascular: A vascular plant has special tissue, called xylem and phloem, that carries water and food around it

Vegetation: plants in general, or plants that are found in a particular area.

Vegetatively: Plants that reproduce (produce more plants) vegetatively do so by methods other than seeds.

Veins: a: any of the vascular bundles forming the framework of a leaf.

  b: any of the thickened cuticular ribs that serve to stiffen the wings of an insect.

Venation:  an arrangement or system of veins (as in the tissue of a leaf or the wing of an insect).

Verbenaceae: family of herbs, shrubs, and trees (order Polemoniales) having opposite leaves, chiefly irregular flowers, and entire ovary.

Verticalis: highest in the hierarchy.

Vespidae: a widely distributed family of wasps (superfamily Vespoidea).

Vine: a: a plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground.

b: any of various sprawling herbaceous plants (such as a tomato or potato) that lack specialized adaptations for climbing.

Virus: any of a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that are usually regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules.

Vitaceae: a family of woody or herbaceous vines (order Rhamnales) having simple, palmate, or pinnate leaves.

Vitales: Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining.

Warm: having or producing a comfortably high temperature.

Wasp: a flying insect, often black and yellow, that can sting.

Weed: any wild plant that grows in an unwanted place, especially in a garden or field where it prevents the cultivated plants from growing freely.

Wide: having a larger distance from one side to the other than is usual or expected, especially in comparison with the length of something; not narrow.

Widespread: existing or happening in many places and/or among many people.

Wild: uncontrolled, violent, or extreme.

Wildflowers: any flower that grows without having been planted by people.

Willow: a tree that grows near water and has long, thin branches that hang down, or wood from this tree.

Wings: the sides of a stage which cannot be seen by the people watching the play.

Wingspan: the distance between the ends of the wings of a bird, insect, or aircraft.

Wolffia: a genus of aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan distribution.

Wood: a hard substance that forms the branches and trunks of trees and can be used as a building material, for making things, or as a fuel.

Woodland: land on which many trees grow, or an area.

Xylocopa:  a genus of carpenter bees 

Yards: a unit of measurement equal to three feet

Zones: an area, especially one that is different from the areas around it because it has different characteristics or is used for different purposes

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