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
Yesterday, I took advantage of the cooler morning for an outing on the grasslands. As per the usual, the outing was great! Several new insects for me and another location for the Southern Shield Fern. However, with the front, we only got one short and brief breeze on top of the barrens. Still I can…
I found a few insects fascinating at home recently. Sometimes it is nice to see cool things right in your own backyard, or front yard or in a field in my case. Over the weekend, I read a book titled “Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest” by Dr. Suzanne Simard. In…
Yesterday, I left off showing you the Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle) caterpillar. Fuzzy-wuzzy was he! Onwards, we go at the same stop. Bonobos and Chimps Appear to Have ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ Greetings Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
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…
Yesterday, it was hot right. That means it was time to switch to a driving tour. However, this does not mean we stay in the car. Usually, we stop at the shady spots. So this adventure will be covered over multiple posts. Today I will cover some of the things we saw at our first…
Evident of several critters were seen on the Aug.3th outing. The first one was the Smaller Sand Cricket (Ellipes minuta). It can be found along creeks edges with sandstone. However the actual cricket is hard to find. Perfectly preserved cave lion cub found frozen in Siberia is 28,000 years old. Even its whiskers are intact….
The back sides, front sides and side views of plants and animals sometimes are the key to identification. Indeed it can help you get to a family or even to a key element that will nail your identification to species. Which side just depends on each species. So try to get all the angles and…
Today, I will focus on a couple of other critters I found on the Narrow-leaf Morning Glories. Keep looking!
Dorothy (The Wizard of OZ) is not the only one likes her home. However I do not have to click my heels three times. Here are a couple of cool critters from home on July 29th. Evolutionary chaos as butterflies, wasps, and viruses have a three-way war A Plant That ‘Cannot Die’ Reveals Its Genetic…