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Comments welcome. Thank you, Mary
Do you enjoy visitors at your house? We certainly do. Family, friends, and critters are my favorite visitors 🙂 A food offering! Fresh yummy cantaloupe from Vann’s Farm Produce in Forestburg. Well Myrtle wanted nothing to do with me or the cantaloupe. Merrily she was on her way! New study reveals hummingbirds get drunk on…
A few days (July 3th) before the First Wed, it was time to scout. I had not been to this unit in awhile. Always nice to know what to expect. 🙂 Tomorrow, I will share the finds for the actual First Wed which was on July 6th. A rare orchid thought to be extinct in…
Indeed it is feeling more like summer everyday! At least the wind keeps it pleasant enough. The creative way to pay for wildlife recovery Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
Continuing on with the second part of Ladonia post. And it certainly was a good day to be out on a Blackland prairie at the Caddo NG! No Frosted Elfins that day. 🙁 Nevertheless, it was a splendid day at the Ladonia Units with new and old friends! Moreover, many thanks to Jeff for suggesting…
Ok, I started out of order and did the afternoon portion yesterday. It was too exciting not share the the forty-seven Frosted Elfins with you. Kinda like eating dessert first LOL. Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
First we had to go further away from the grotto in order to get down to the grotto itself. So we were a few hundred feet down stream from the grotto at this point. The slug and the Venus Fly Trap! Satellite images show biggest methane leaks com from Russia and US Keep looking! The…
There is so much to see at the grasslands! And onwards we went slowly. We don’t want to miss a thing! Keep looking! The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
So July 8th was an awesome day. There is always so much to find and enjoy on the grasslands! On this pond, we saw a Banded Pennant dragonfly. It was too far out for a photo. However it was pretty with the all black abdomen and three black spots on each wing with a brown…
I was a bit hasty in deciding that the scales on the Snowberry Clearwing had just turned transparent. As I discussed with Suzanne in the comments in the Hemaris diffinis post, it appears the scales did just fall off. Here is my evidence. So my conclusion is that at least three different species of moths…