This park has invasive thistles, russian olives, teasles, and fragmites. Native plants seem to have been planted throughout the area, such as milkweed, yerba mansa, and goldenrod. Other insects observed in the area include monarch butterflies, cabbage white butterflies, sweat bees, bumble bees, Melissodes bees, and moths. Cottonwood trees are found throughout the park, and were growing and creating shade where the fireflies were found. The small area where the fireflies were found was defined by tall grasses, bald faced hornets, yellow jacket wasps, jumping spiders, and mowed grasses were adjacent to the tall grasses. Fireflies were not found in the mowed sections.