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You remember when it was cool last Friday? Me too! So this is last post from the cool Friday (July 5th). Ok it was time to look at some more nest boxes around the hill. Who would I find taking up residence? What a cool time it had been! What Is a Species, Anyway? Butterflies…
Partly sunny or partly cloudy? The National Weather Service says the terms mean the same during daylight hours. I would say it was both today. LOL. However, at night the partly cloudy term is obviously the only appropriate phrase. Certainly the temperature was great. Regardless, I found some interesting stuff. Mysterious Origins of North America’s…
Merriam-Webster has several definitions for scat. The third one said it was jazz singing with nonsense syllables. Indeed it could be a jazzy type cafe that you might to try if named that? Of course most of you (including me) that is not the definition I think of when you mention the word scat. Animal…
So a forewarning, you get to see what we saw. I am not holding back. When I looked up maggots I found there are some called cheese flies which I had not heard of before. The cheese flies belong to Piophilidae family. “The larvae of typical piophilids are notorious for jumping or “skipping”, especially in…
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…
My fun finds today! The little Calligrapher Fly (Toxomerus marginatus) can be found in many habitats. The larvae prey on aphids, thrips and small caterpillars. (BugGuide). Crazy wing action! A blinking fish reveals clues as to how our ancestors evolved from water to land Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and…
We have this one particular Bois D’arc tree that just seems to attract the bugs. Every year I find lots of butterflies and other insects on it. The other Bois D’arc trees do not seem to have the same attraction. Juneteenth in Galveston – General Order No. 3 by Union Troops Marked the Official End…