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
I continued on with my walk in the field. Tomorrow I will take you in the woods. Vets Borrow a Horse’s CT Scanner to Fit Giant, 302-Pound Sea Turtle and Get a Nice Surprise Thanks Claire! Forests “Talk” Before a Solar Eclipse: Study Reveals Mysterious Electrical Communication Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM…
Goodness gracious I hope y’all are getting outside before the weather turns hot! Sometimes genus is as good as gets! And I’m fine with that. 🙂 Mosquito Bucket Challenge Science in War, Science in Peace: The Origins of the NSF These Plants Protect Larvae From Wildfires Humans moving to ancient cities sent bedbug numbers soaring,…
The sunshine and the temperature made for a great day! We got 2.55″ yesterday. The Kern’s Flower Scarab (Euphoria kernii) chowing down! Indeed nature always has a twist! To Reduce Human and Grizzly Bear Conflicts, Both Species Must Change Their Behavior Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna’s Mysterious ‘Pseudo-Pouch’ Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts…
Another good rain for us last night. We got 2.41″. Also I am starting to see more bumbles! The queens must now have workers starting to help them. Left: unpollinated Western Horse Nettle (Solanum dimidiatum), center American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus) on Texas Thistle, right pollinated Western Horse Nettle (Solanum dimidiatum). Scientists Peered Inside The…
What do ants, dung beetles, and vultures have in common? Of course we will be setting up a camera soon. Indeed what else would you expect. 🙂 Moreover you now know what I think an ant, a dung beetle, and a vulture have in common. They are part of nature’s cleanup crew! Salmon in the…
Today would have been Shirley’s one hundredth birthday! Family and friends gathered at the Thomsen Foundation to celebrate her. If you are not familiar with the late Shirley Lusk, read about her in the BRIT journal. Indeed Shirley was mentor to many of us. Furthermore you will find her name mentioned ten times in the…
Today I was checking nest boxes for Jeanne. Goodness was it a good morning! What a grand morning! Thanks Jeanne! NOAA Forecasts a Busy Hurricane Season For 2025. What’s Fueling It? Volcanoes Send Secret Signals Through Trees And NASA Satellites Can See Them NSF plan to slash ‘indirect’ science funding: will it stick? June 14,…
On the way home I made a quick stop at the LBJ NG to check on my friends. Indeed it was mite-y fine quick stop! Humpback Whales Can’t See as Well as Scientists Thought, and It Might Explain Why They Keep Getting Tangled in Fishing Gear New Discovery Suggests the Alphabet May Not Have Originated…
So I love to see new places. But like Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) there is no place like home. 🙂 With a little persuasion the Giant Swallowtail cat poked out their horns (osmeterium)! Oh yeah it is good to be back home! Science rewritten: Humpback whales give birth while still migrating Watch Vampire Bats Run…
We are back in North Texas. And what a trip we had! Here’s the wrap-up. Including a couple of movies that I was not able to share while we were in Alaska. On May 13th in Basket Bay the Orcas popped up! This was incredible! We had already seen the Humpbacked and Gray Whales. The…