Below is a map of the downtown area, followed by a list of species depicted on each utility box. The whole collection is called "Love is All Around."
A larger pdf of the map is also here: mapPDF
"Let's get to know the wild beings around us, and participate in the web of life with love and respect for all."
This project was paid for by the Downtown Development Authority, with support from Business for the Arts of Broward. Installed by Image360 Lauderhill.
1. Mangrove Community
great blue heron, fiddler crab, Florida softshell turtle, human, red mangroves, mangrove tree crab, oysters, wood stork, barnacles, bald eagle with nonspecified fish, ocean, needlefish, phytoplankton (microalgae), manatee, seagrass, Florida prairie warbler
2. Boldly Beautiful
bear, peacock family, Jacaranda tree, canary, Baltimore oriole, Cuban oregano, amaranth, bitter gourd, wood sorrel, brown anole, curlytail lizard, human, ringneck dove, earthworm, oleander, oleander moths and caterpillar, aloe
3. Food Forest
mulberries, iguana, jackfruit, sweet potato, aphid, banana, mole cricket, yucca, Halloween pendant dragonfly, collards, green anole, grackle, june bug grub, Muscadine grapes, rolypoly, gulf fritillary butterfly, moringa, mealy bug, malanga, epazote, pigeon peas, honey mushroom (in role as tree parasite, not food), millipede, earthworms, Miami limestone (oolite)
4. The World Is Good
Florida panther, bottlenose dolphin, ringneck snake, seagrape, Quaker parrot, Muscovy duck, burrowing owl, human, coontie, staghorn coral, angelfish, cockroach, Simpson stopper, roseate spoonbill, banana spider, mockingbird, bat, grasshopper, cloudless sulphur butterfly
5. Thank You Rain
mosquitoes, clouds, armadillo, human, tree frog, Muscovy ducks, Egyptian goose, lubber, tasselflower, perriwinkle, pink portulaca, creeping beggarweed, oxalis, earthworms
6. Shoreline Sunshine
man-o-war, spiny lobster, coconut palm, mouse, raccoon, starfish, sanddollars, pelican, eel, human, seagulls, mole crab (sand flea), sand fly (midge), sandpipers, squid, ghost crab, royal tern, quaker parrot, Southern quahog clam, glass minnows
7. Stronger Together
sun, mango, squirrel, fox, human, blue jay, red-tailed hawk, walking lily, rat snake, globe sedge, coontie, atala butterflies, fire bush, iguana
8. Embrace the Mystery
Florida strangler fig, pegoscapus mexicanus (pollinating wasp), rove beetle, schistonchus aureus (nematode), squirrel, raccoon, skunk, crow, royal poinciana, human, deer, dollarweed, southern toad, gnat catcher, Cuban land snail
9. Gratitude for This Day
manatee, cocoplum, corkystem passion vine, zebra longwing butterfly, sabal palm, june bug larva and beetles, Florida gar, ibis, green anole, housefly, Eastern gray squirrel, gumbo limbo, ants, bidens alba, spiny orb weaver, human, cattails, inchworm, blue land crab, box turtle, cardinal, European honeybee, false parasol mushrooms
10. Night Life
raccoon, moon, bats, Cuban tree frog, nightblooming jasmine, possum, human, coyote, coreus, sabal palm, small grass frog, owl, rat, cockroaches, Luna moth, green fly, southeastern field cricket, Florida giant katydid
11. Home Sweet Tree
live oak, bluejay family, Monarch caterpillar, red-bellied woodpecker, ants, mouse, lizard (unspecified), ratsnake, termite, rat, squirrel, Florida giant katydid
12. South Florida Wildflowers
purslane, larraflower, larraflower wasp, bumblebee, tasselflower, cassius blue butterfly, sida, sunshine mimosa, bidens alba, swamp milkweed, monarch caterpillar and butterfly, green orchid bee, dainty sulphur butterfly
13. Life Is Love
Meyer lemon, gray wall jumping spider, ringneck dove, queens palm, swallowtail butterfly and caterpillar, common gallinule, coral vine, red-eared slider, box turtle, cardboard bush, gray mold, porterweed, sparrow, mosquito fish, black racer, sapodilla, lovebug
14. We Are All Related
vulture, virginia creeper, pandorus sphinx moth, ladybug, coral snake, sugar apple, stinkhorn fungus, praying mantis, marsh rabbits, human, beautyberry, wild coffee, boar, snapping turtle, bufo, carambola, crowsfoot, hibiscus, green heron
15. Everglades Community
swallowtail kites, striped snail, ghost orchid, hog plum, Eastern rattlesnake, palmettos, osprey, cottonmouth, bromeliad (air plant), stiff-leaved wild pine, sun, alligator, cypress, purple gallinule, spider lily, slash pines, fire, flamingo, otter, water lily, mosquitoes
16. Under the Sea
tarpon, spotted eagle ray, brain coral, seahorse, jellyfish, nurse shark, blowfish, minnows, sea fan, marlin, barracuda, pompano, sargassum, sargasso fish, human, goliath grouper, urchin