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Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
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….
Today was a drive-about day for me. I will tell you great treasures were found. 🙂 But you will have to wait until I process the photos. So here are two little green treasures I found yesterday. Penguin Breeding Colonies Catastrophically Failing as Ice Vanishes in Antarctica Tiny Forests With Big Benefits Bats of Bracken…
Indeed, the Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex) was my best find on the First Wed outing. I found it at the very end of the outing. So she was just traveling along slowly. Most of the time I find the Rainbow Scarabs in a pile of poop. So since she was nowhere near a pile, I…
When photographing the critters, it pays to go very slow as you approach. Sometimes they will stay put, but more often than not they leave. There are lots of missed shots when going in for the close shot. 🙂 Hey we all have a personal space right? Weird, Rare, and Everywhere Keep looking! The more…
It was almost time to head home after exploring for six hours. So half way down the driveway, we stopped to look at one last place. Just like me it was time to head out like this dung beetle scurrying quickly away. So I am sure you will agree with me, Jeanne and Wayne have…
There are three families of webspinners that occur in the US. They live gregariously usually consisting of a single wingless female and her brood of young. Most males have two pairs of nearly equally long wings. Furthermore, the webspinners are rare. (Second Edition, American Insects, Ross H. Arnett, Jr., 2000). Now of course, it makes…
What a lovely spring day, no fooling! Now I did say in the title there was a training video. Well, here it is! I learned this as kid and still enjoy shooting the “bullet”. Instructions: Gather your mature stalks of the Ten-petal Anemones but still somewhat flexible stem. Next choose one. Bend back the stem…
What a crisp and delightful day out with the First Wed group today. The First Wednesday group of nine had a wonderful morning at the grasslands. Indeed many tidbits of new information were shared. Thank you all! Save these Dates for Prairie Time in North Texas (Fort Worth chapter of NPAT) Keep looking! The more…