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
Hold on, why would anyone love Ambrosia trifida or more commonly known as Giant Ragweed you may be asking? Well, I must say I have liked the plant for many years. Each winter, the sparrows and other bird species would flock to our Giant Ragweed to eat the seeds in the winter. I love ragweed!…
Judy found this yesterday! I was very excited to get it! On BugGuide, there are only two incidents in Texas that have been reported for this parasitoid wasp! Thank you again Judy for sharing this me! Definitely really cool! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the…
Moving on from the first stop, we head down the road to another spot that was monitored by Shirley each year. ‘The Lorax’ Warned Us 50 Years Ago, But We Didn’t Listen Plants, Heavy Metals, and Lingering Scars of World War I This Color-Shifting Robot Chameleon Could Soon Blend Into a Wall Near You Keep…
Yesterday, I mentioned that we spent a good deal of time at our first stop. As you can gather by now, we go slow. This means you can find more. 🙂 At the first location, we continue to search on. Please consider contacting your representatives to help our wildlife… The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act Keep…
This will conclude the Aug 3rd outing. And this was the highlight of the outing for me. I had found the adult of this critter inside the house back in June. Therefore, its larva has to be in our area as well right? Keep looking!
Where did I find a movie star? Well, it is not famous yet, but with a face like it has, I think it truly must be its destiny! See what you think. After I put it back in a jar, it wrapped itself in a pokeberry leaf. Currently, it is now in a comfy jar…
Will we ever run out of treasures and discoveries at the grasslands? With all the wonderous fauna and flora waiting to be found, I do not see how. This concludes the July 20th outing! Every trip to the grasslands brings more treasures to discover! Keep looking!
The July 16th outing saga continues! As we started to climb in elevation, we happened upon the Woolly Dutchman’s Pipevine (Aristolochia tomentosa)! Of course, the elevation climb is really not that much. But this area did not have standing water as it was on a slight slope above the bottomlands. Keep looking!
I was going to make this post about my visit to the grasslands yesterday, but changed my mind this afternoon when I found this visitor on my backdoor. (I am easily distracted.)The Mint-loving Pyrausta (Pyrausta acrionalis) sat there for sometime. There are 61 species of the genus Pyrausta in America north of Mexico. Their larva…
What a beautiful flower that is going strong right now. The color is spectacular! The critters that visit them are cool too! So many creatures use the Brown-eyed Susans. And all of the above was found just today! In a Remote Amazon Region, Study Shows Indigenous Peoples Have Practiced Forest Conservation for Millennia Keep looking!