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Virginia round-leaf birch (Betula uber) Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera) Smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum) Swamp pink (Helonias bullata) Peter's mountain mallow (Iliamna corei) Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides) Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)
This is a list of mammals in Virginia, including both current and recently historical inhabitants. Virginia has 77 species of native land mammals (including extirpated species), and the coast is visited by nearly 30 marine mammal species. 11 species or subspecies of native Virginian mammals are listed as endangered or threatened by the state ...
Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater ...
Believe it or not, the predators that are most commonly found on the shores of Virginia beach are wild foxes. Known for stealing food and terrorizing pets, wild foxes have been known to attack ...
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The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
The Shenandoah River was contaminated with mercury which was released by a DuPont rayon manufacturing facility located in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 to 1950. [6] This mercury is still present in the fish population of the river today; data collected over the last several decades shows that mercury levels remain stable. [7]
List of Native and Naturalized Fauna of Virginia April, 2022; Virginia Threatened and Endangered Faunal Species; FWS ECOS Listed species with spatial current range believed to or known to occur in Virginia; NatureServe Explorer; AmphibiaWeb search for amphibians in the state of Virginia