Dead Live Oak
We were certainly thankful for the breeze on this morning outing at the grasslands. It was a fabulous tree! Keep looking!
Three bugs
Welcome to the new hosting site for my blog. I am looking forward to the new capabilities here! I hope you like the new format. Now I just need to learn to how to use it. 🙂 Two-lined Spittlebugs (Prosapia bicincta) mating! Wheelbug nymph – (Arilus cristatus) on Yarrow. So this…
FUNgi
The Rain Crow (also known as the Yellow-billed Cuckoo) was yakking about all the rain! Glad the sunshine returned this afternoon. Well, it was the perfect day for seeing what FUN-gi had popped up. On the morning walk, this caught my eye along the path! What a beauty eh! Jim took this angle of…
Candlesnuff
These photos are all from the Prairie Seekers field day in Collin County. Candlesnuff fungus or also called Stag’s horn fungus (Xylaria species)! Apparently you must look at the spores to get a definite answer for the species according to the MushroomExpert. Border Patch caterpillar on Saw-tooth Sunflower (Helianthus grosseserratus)! We saw quite a few of…
Ick and cute
Now I know some of you will want to skip part of this post, but I found both of my subjects quite interesting. The Gulf Coast Tick (Amblyomma maculatum) and the Common Bird’s Nest (Crucibulum laeve) fungus are the my subjects today. I brought both of these ticks home with me in a container from yesterday’s NPAT…
Slime mold
Today, I went on the Prairie Seeker field training over in Collin County. It was a great day! Only got misted on a little bit and the only shower came when we were getting back into cars to leave. Good karma! I will share tomorrow what we found. Tapioca slime mold (Brefeldia maxima) is interesting!…
Take off!
I went for an afternoon drive with my good friend! We saw several real nice birds. Three spotted sandpipers, the closest view I have ever had of a broad-wing hawk, two great egrets, two green herons, a beautiful female painted bunting and a couple of great blue herons that were lazily circling in the sky!…
Amazing fungi!
The weather has brought out some mushrooms! And I told y’all yesterday, I was going to share one of the tiniest mushrooms I have seen. Here it is! They are amazing! This is them in the leaf litter! I have not clue what species it is. When I first noticed the tiny white specks…I thought…
In a shelter!
Another beautiful day! Today on the afternoon walk, I found the tiniest specimen of a mushroom. No photos today, but I will get them to y’all in a day or so. Really cool! Today’s photos are all from the grasslands. Woods Ear (Auricularia angiospermarum) is always a fun to see with its velvety texture! Closeup…
Barbara and her buttons
We added .86″ to our rain bucket since midnight. So the grand total for us for the storm has been 2.26″. Pretty nice! Back side of Greenthread (Thelesperma filifolium). The two toned phyllaries are a characteristic of Greenthread. What a lovely shade on these shelf fungus! A closeup of a treehopper (Ceresini) nymph! It was…