Rufa Red Knot
Wings · Tier 1

Rufa Red Knot

Calidris canutus rufa
“I fly 9,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic and bet my life on landing in Delaware Bay exactly when the horseshoe crabs lay.”
Your Move

Protect the crabs and you protect me. Two species, one clock.

Monarch
Gossamers · Tier 1

Monarch

Danaus plexippus
“My caterpillars eat one thing on Earth — milkweed. No milkweed, no me.”
🌿 Host

Milkweed (Asclepias)

Your Move

Plant milkweed. Your meadow IS the action.

Horseshoe Crab
Armors · Tier 1

Horseshoe Crab

Limulus polyphemus
“445 million years old, blue blood, and my eggs feed the whole Delaware Bay each spring. This bay holds the largest population of my kind in the world.”
Your Move

Nothin' more satisfying than flipping over horseshoe crabs as you stroll along the DE seashore!

Atlantic Sturgeon
Fins · Tier 1

Atlantic Sturgeon

Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
“Armored, older than the dinosaurs, and I still swim up Delaware rivers to spawn.”
Your Move

Clean water upstream is survival downstream.

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee
Zzzz's · Tier A

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus citrinus
“I don't build or gather. I slip into other bumble bees' nests and let them raise mine.”
Your Move

Protect the host bumble bees and you protect me — save one, save two.

Carolina Roadside-skipper
Gossamers · Tier A

Carolina Roadside-skipper

Amblyscirtes carolina
“My whole life happens inside a stand of native bamboo — a plant most people don't know America has.”
🌿 Host

Giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea)

Your Move

Protect and restore canebrakes — a nearly vanished southeastern habitat.

Checkered White
Gossamers · Tier A

Checkered White

Pontia protodice
“I get by on mustards, including the weedy non-native ones — which is why I turn up in disturbed ground nobody is managing.”
🌿 Host

Mustard family (Brassicaceae), native and weedy

Your Move

Leave some open disturbed ground unsprayed.

Blue Mussel
Glimmers · Tier 3

Blue Mussel

Mytilus edulis
“I hold to the rocks with threads I spin like silk, and I filter the whole bay through my body — a bed of us keeps the water clean just by breathing.”
Your Move

Keep the water clean and cool — everything you send downstream, I drink.

Pine Siskin
Wings · Tier 2

Pine Siskin

Spinus pinus
“Some winters the northern forests run short on seed, and that’s when I pour south in restless, chattering flocks — if I’ve turned up at your feeder, it was a lean year up north.”
Your Move

Leave the seed heads standing — coneflower, birch, alder, thistle are winter food for a wanderer like me.

Rufa Red Knot
Wings · Tier 1

Rufa Red Knot

Calidris canutus rufa
“I fly 9,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic and bet my life on landing in Delaware Bay exactly when the horseshoe crabs lay.”
Your Move

Protect the crabs and you protect me. Two species, one clock.

Monarch
Gossamers · Tier 1

Monarch

Danaus plexippus
“My caterpillars eat one thing on Earth — milkweed. No milkweed, no me.”
🌿 Host

Milkweed (Asclepias)

Your Move

Plant milkweed. Your meadow IS the action.

Horseshoe Crab
Armors · Tier 1

Horseshoe Crab

Limulus polyphemus
“445 million years old, blue blood, and my eggs feed the whole Delaware Bay each spring. This bay holds the largest population of my kind in the world.”
Your Move

Nothin' more satisfying than flipping over horseshoe crabs as you stroll along the DE seashore!

Atlantic Sturgeon
Fins · Tier 1

Atlantic Sturgeon

Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
“Armored, older than the dinosaurs, and I still swim up Delaware rivers to spawn.”
Your Move

Clean water upstream is survival downstream.

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee
Zzzz's · Tier A

Lemon Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus citrinus
“I don't build or gather. I slip into other bumble bees' nests and let them raise mine.”
Your Move

Protect the host bumble bees and you protect me — save one, save two.

Carolina Roadside-skipper
Gossamers · Tier A

Carolina Roadside-skipper

Amblyscirtes carolina
“My whole life happens inside a stand of native bamboo — a plant most people don't know America has.”
🌿 Host

Giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea)

Your Move

Protect and restore canebrakes — a nearly vanished southeastern habitat.

Checkered White
Gossamers · Tier A

Checkered White

Pontia protodice
“I get by on mustards, including the weedy non-native ones — which is why I turn up in disturbed ground nobody is managing.”
🌿 Host

Mustard family (Brassicaceae), native and weedy

Your Move

Leave some open disturbed ground unsprayed.

Blue Mussel
Glimmers · Tier 3

Blue Mussel

Mytilus edulis
“I hold to the rocks with threads I spin like silk, and I filter the whole bay through my body — a bed of us keeps the water clean just by breathing.”
Your Move

Keep the water clean and cool — everything you send downstream, I drink.

Pine Siskin
Wings · Tier 2

Pine Siskin

Spinus pinus
“Some winters the northern forests run short on seed, and that’s when I pour south in restless, chattering flocks — if I’ve turned up at your feeder, it was a lean year up north.”
Your Move

Leave the seed heads standing — coneflower, birch, alder, thistle are winter food for a wanderer like me.