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!
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!
I want to take that tracking course. Sounds like so much fun.
Yeah I agree!
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!