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
Jeanne has shared a really cool big bug with us! Last Thursday when the ice was thick on Jeanne’s pond she found this beauty! The ice was about 1/2 inch thick. And in fact there were two of these beauties. Jeanne estimated their size at a whooping 3/4 inch! After pounding on the ice, they…
How many times have I looked at Green June Bug? Well, I would guess thousands of times. Furthermore I often stopped to look at them. However I did not really look until now. Taking another look at the familiar and you too may see new and beautiful details! I certainly did, even on most familiar…
Continuing along with the bottomland outing. Get down close to see the slime molds on a stick! These were less than 3 or 4 mm high. Could Plants Be Intelligent? New Research Reveals That Light-Based Signals Could Be the Key To Plant “Brains” One of Texas’ most popular state parks is about to get much…
So a couple of days ago I found a bumblebee. No big news there right? Well, this one was different than I had ever noticed before! But wait you are asking? What is the breaking news? Here it comes! But wait there is more! Having the above one on the 9th, I wondered if I…
A week or so ago I said I would show you what we found in a small pool of water in a limestone creek bed. The stream was an ephemeral creek and had only separated pools of water left. Some were deeper than others. Indeed, this particular pool was no more than a small shallow…
I have not heard as many cicadas singing this summer. As we took our morning walk a cicada was singing ahead. This was an opportunity that had not happened for me before. It was right there! And when I picked it up I could feel the vibrations! Tyler Quigley. “Sounds of Cicadas”. ASU – Ask…
We were now out on the open by this time. Not much shade except for a few trees every now and again. We were not sure it was alive. Well, of course we had to poke it. They would be very vulnerable at this time. Good luck friend! How will the reintroduction of this extinct…
Camouflage is what most creatures rely on to stay safe. Yes, some like the Monarch do advertise their presence with bright warning colors. However many creatures take a different path. Funnel spiders and their webs are hard to see unless the sunlight hits a web just right. Or if the dew or rain droplets highlights…
Sounds like the start to a Grimm’s fairy tale eh. LOL First the nymph! It is shaped like a Stink Bug (Pentatomidae) hence that is what I will go with. 😉 The little guy was about 3mm. I dropped it on the floor and it landed upside down. Soon it was released outside. The majority of the…
I know most of you have heard the expression “To make no bones about it”. Apparently the expression came from fifteenth century England. If you found a bone in your soup that was not good (of course). So no bones in your soup were good. Indeed in the field I think finding bones is fun….