More from the Dragonfly Trail

This area is known as the Rolling Plains. Its rangelands are broken with streams and rivers running from west to east, draining toward the Cross Timbers and Prairies Region to the east and southeast. The Dragonfly Trail is a total of about half of mile.

Continuing along the Dragonfly Trail, I spotted a Toothed-leaf Croton (Croton glandulosus species). Since doing the Crotons, I have been looking more carefully at them. In this case I was hoping for the other variety of this species. So would I be lucky?
Fruit looked good. However this is not used to tell the two varieties apart.
Darn, the glands were on a pedestal. So still just the C. glandulosus var lindheimeri. Maybe next time.

The moon was still above us.

Indeed a nice mound of harvester ants!
A small scat. Perhaps a lizard?
The colors of a Common Sunflower‘s seed head are beautifully golden. I wondered to myself if there were any animals living in the dead stalk. However I did not check.
The Common Sunflower and a tree shadow!
What a pretty package, the Balloonvine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) pod.
This was the only Garden Spider seen that day.
A nickel sized ground spider.
The park was crawling with the walkingsticks!
Two sets of tracks. The second set below the mammal was an insect.

Indeed the Dragonfly Trail had been a pleasant walk in the dappled shade. And with this October heat wave, the shade is certainly welcome!

More tomorrow from Lake Arrowhead State Park.

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Keep looking!

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4 Comments

  1. Perfect descriptions of all you saw – like nickel sized, pretty package. That is a pretty incredible looking walking stick with that one set of green legs!

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