Stump face
Low was 27.9 and high was 71.5. Perfect weather!
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Stump face…LOL
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Bee was busy but slow!
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Prairie Parsley (Polytaenia nuttallii) rosette getting bigger. It is a Black Swallowtail host plant.
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On our back pond, it was busy. Beside the obvious larger insect on top of the water, there were these very tiny (like mite size) red critters in the water.
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A Cucumber Beetle must have fallen in the water. It was swimming furiously.
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This bug really blends in.
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In our woods I found these Yellow-bellied Sapsucker feathers.
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The two feathers in the middle without the spots are tail feathers. They have stiff points.
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A colorful piece of a grasshopper next to the moss.
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Roadrunner feather found on the path.
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Not sure who these feathers belong to, but I think the Loggerhead Shrike must have had a good meal.
For fun today, I add back water to the yesterday’s protozoa that I think might be a testate amoeba. Very interesting. It had dried up after a couple of hours.
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This is what it looked like desiccated.
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It had shrunk to almost one third its of size. Here I had added the water.
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At this point, I could see some of insides moving. I watched for 15 minutes to get to this point.
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It reached its full size again. I never caught it coming out like in the movie I made yesterday. It did not stay out long, so I might have missed it today. It took it a half hour to get to this size. Cool critter!
George R. Carruthers, scientist who designed telescope that went to the moon.
Keep looking!
When i go outside critters act as if we never had a bad cold spell. Wonder what the really red critters are in the water. And the face in stump has a mustache.
My prairie parsley hasn't sprouted yet but I'm trying planting it so many different ways surely something will emerge soon.
Judy, I thought stump face looked like Groucho Marx. I may go back and nab one of the red critters for a closer look if they will let me.
Claire, I sure hope it does. Maybe I will dig one up for you.