By the title of this post you can probably guess the theme. 😉 Yep, everything will have a bit of yellow in it.
A favorite late summer and fall, Flat-topped Goldenrod (Solidago nitida)! It is just starting to bloom.
The Whitlow Wort or Broom Nailwort(Paronychia virginica) is a standout in the fall. According to FNCT, its original use was to treat whitlow, an inflammation of the finger (especially under the nail).
The Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) has not been very robust this year. The plant’s role for the critters includes seeds for birds, ants like the nectar, and it’s a host plant for the Cloudless Sulphur. A very versatile plant!
The Arkansas Yucca (Yucca arkansana) is certainly a tough plant. However, this one is showing the strain of a dry summer with its partially yellow leaves..
The Prairie Gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) continues here and there under the full sun of the prairie! The Sunflower moth (Homoeosoma electellum) uses this as one of its host plants.
Many of the Wild Plums as well as other trees are getting yellow and dropping leaves.
A plant that I had not ever tried to ID before, the Texas Flax or Sucker Flax (Linum medium var. texanum). And it was just waiting for me in our back field. 🙂
Two-striped Mermiria or Two-striped Toothpick Grasshopper (Mermiria bivittata)!
Differential Grasshopper (Melanoplus differentialis) color ranges from yellow to green. Indeed, it was nice that I found a yellow one on the yellow post day LOL.
A green beetle (Cotinis), but a yellow stem on the willow!
One drip on the Western Horse Nettle’s fruit (Solanum dimidiatum). Hope all of you got some rain too! However, certainly not much rain here today. In fact, this photo was mid-morning. So by the afternoon, we were very dry again.
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
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The texas flax is a beautiful shade of yellow. And the mermiria is a pretty grasshopper. Are there any flightless grasshoppers left around here? I called them jumbos when i was a kid. Big fat grasshoppers. Easy to catch.
The Rainbow Grasshopper is a flightless grasshopper that I see in the more barren areas of the grasslands. There are other flightless grasshoppers called Lubber grasshoppers which includes at least two different genera. Maybe that is what you saw and caught. I have seen the Plains Lubber Grasshopper (Brachystola magna) in West Texas. And Claire documented it in Vernon long ago. Neither of those genera (Brachystola and Romalea) have I documented here which of course does not mean they aren’t here. 😉
The texas flax is a beautiful shade of yellow. And the mermiria is a pretty grasshopper. Are there any flightless grasshoppers left around here? I called them jumbos when i was a kid. Big fat grasshoppers. Easy to catch.
The Rainbow Grasshopper is a flightless grasshopper that I see in the more barren areas of the grasslands. There are other flightless grasshoppers called Lubber grasshoppers which includes at least two different genera. Maybe that is what you saw and caught. I have seen the Plains Lubber Grasshopper (Brachystola magna) in West Texas. And Claire documented it in Vernon long ago. Neither of those genera (Brachystola and Romalea) have I documented here which of course does not mean they aren’t here. 😉
A good color for impending (we hope) fall season. Glad you got more rain.
Yes lubbers. Thats what i called jumbos when i was a kid. There were lots and lots here then.