Welcome to my nature blog! I love sharing my photos of North Texas! I will keep looking out and hope you do too.
Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Going out to explore nature leads to all kinds of new observations. And of course I learn new things about our fellow creatures! However my plan for the day was to observe a colony of Chimney Bees (Emphorini) that I had located last year. I took my time getting close to the colony. I was…
Good advice is to always try to be aware of your surroundings. Most critters will avoid you if they can of course. Indeed lucky for me I have mostly been lucky except for a bee or wasp sting a few times. So I was able to capture a movie of it with its loud buzz….
This morning I read this article, 400-Million-Year-Old Fossil Upends Our Understanding of Fibonacci Spirals in Nature. With the article fresh on my mind, of course I had to go look outside. The Clear Lake Chapter Native Plant Society of Texas recently had a presentation (June 12th) on “The Fibonacci Sequence in Nature and Native Plants”….
A few of my favorite things at home today. Definitely always fun to watch the locomotion of a caterpillar’s walk! Here the Hackberry Emperor most likely was hunting for a place to pupate. It was on an Post Oak. Hope y’all saw some good nature today as well! 🙂 Bright white lights are a buzzkill…
Another attempt to find out the magic of the larva attaching itself before transforming into a chrysalis. The caterpillar did a lot of crawling around. Changing “clothes”! Evolution Keeps Making Crabs, And Nobody Knows Why Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Before I forget (again) Kathy and Jerry shared some photos with me. And now I am sharing with you. 🙂 Now back to the title of this post, catenary. This was a new term for me this morning. A physicist, an architect, an engineer or a mathematician (to mention a few) would know the term….
In my haste yesterday from the wet and cold, I forgot my leather gloves behind. However, I did a quick look before I left yesterday. Nada. Today I decided to go back to hunt for them. So I returned with a gps point from the photo with the Ground Mantis which was the place I…
Ah, the summer heat has arrived! Many of you may have a favorite water hole to get refreshed. We have a small pond in our back field that will hold water. Certainly it will not last the summer if there is no rain. However we do provide water for the critters at a couple different…
We know the amount light something received affects many things. Plants are one example that changes where it lives and how much it will grow within its light environments. However, I just learned that it can have an influence on some insect critters’ color. Totally amazing! Indeed there is so much to learn. And thanks…