The wind sure has been blowin’! Hang on to your hat and perhaps put a rock or two in your pocket?
The Giant Swallowtail’s caterpillar on a Toothache Tree. For some reason this is when I tend to find this species of larvae.
Fall? Come on now. Crazy weather has fooled the Arkansas Yucca. However it did not fool the yucca moths. At least I didn’t find any.
Our Common Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana ) is loaded this year!
And some of the fruit is ready for harvesting right on time! Yum!
The Field Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis ) is going to seed! It knows the season. 😉
A closeup of the seedheads are as beautiful as the fresh flowers.
In fact many plants like the Narrow-leaf Gayfeather (Liatris punctata var mucronata ) I enjoy equally as well as they go to seed.
Hope everyone has washed their windows or car or doing a rain dance or whatever works for you.
Two High Schoolers Found an ‘Impossible’ Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More
Reaching for the stars while raising others up Thanks Claire!
Klamath River salmon spotted far upstream in Oregon after dam removal
A couple links for Halloween…
Science of Pepper’s Ghost illusion
This 19th-Century ‘Toy Book’ Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
Keep looking!
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
Those seed heads really are pretty. I better check my persimmon tree for fruit. Sure looks good😊
I’m so very excited about the salmon! Good news for everyone, especially the fish!
So glad fall (and rain) are on the way – or so they say!
Hercules club/toothache tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) is one of my favorite trees to spot. It’s a host plant for the giant swallowtail, reason enough to love it, but it looks so prehistoric. And it makes your tongue tickle (another common name, tickle-tongue tree). Even its botanical name is fun to say.
Beautiful fluffy seeds!