Lovebush

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As per our custom, we started the morning with our shorter walk before breakfast.

The magical morning light bathes the Great Egret!
Patches of the Hooded Windmill Grass (Chloris cucullata) had been cut short near the lake.
Breakfast now checked off. Now it was time to try a trail. We choose the Dragonfly Trail. Jim said “oh boy they were going to point out some of the plants that we were removing at home like plum thickets”. LOL.
The first plant that I noticed was a Lotebush (Ziziphus obtusifolia) and a spider’s cocoon. This plant is not commonly one that I see. Additionally I took a closer look at the cocoon. Then I noticed…
A big ole walkingstick (Phasmida) hiding in plain sight!
As I looked more at the Lotebush I found more! In fact there were at least four or five mating pairs!
Head shot!
Front feet shot with antenna!

So all total on a couple of Lotebushes were over dozen walkingsticks! It seemed to be the happening place. 😎

While looking up walkingsticks I found this reference: Texas walkingsticks (Quinn 2012). It says some Texas walkingsticks have a defensive behavior of spraying a chemical. So be careful looking at mating walkingsticks!

Finally I would like to give the Lotebush a new common name, Lovebush. 😊

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