Sunday, May 17, 2015. We visited an Ozark fen that had been used in the 1970s as a recreational mud pit for trucks. The deep muck almost swallowed my colleague as he sank to his knees in beautiful black fen soil. He came out with a monster-sized devil crawfish whose turrets and tunnels coursed through the fen. This fen is dominated by uncommon sedges and ragworts today, but I wonder what we lost during the 1970s. Friday, May 08, 2015. Native to Missouri, yes, but what region? .

Flora and fauna of the Athens County area, and occasionally habitats outside Ohio. Subject matter will consist of both interpretive material and taxonomic issues in plant and animal identification. Saturday, February 14, 2015. As they are often called, pop out about every second or third node. Or where the bud and leaves occur. Virginia Creeper buds are orange and scaled. Sends out its aerial rootlets throughout. The plant, both above and below, regardless of the age o.

Back porch for the winter. The Barrow of Thyme, emptied of 38 seedlings, all transplanted to ground two weeks before the first frost. The Ride, facing West. The Ride, facing East. Berries of Amur honeysuckle,. A Top 5 invasive plant here. Its lovely twice a year, easily pruned, but I never stop fighting it. Hyssop, Pinus mugho,.

Tuesday, February 17, 2015. I put out a call on Twitter for volunteers to go out looking for winter millipedes for me, and people responded! So this post will serve as a quick guide on what to look for. Monday, October 6, 2014.

Friday, April 8, 2016. Thanks to above average rainfall this spring, the desert was truly in bloom, and we caught the end of a major flowering of cacti and desert annuals. Here is a small sampling of what we saw.

The Official Blog of the Institute of Botanical Training. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Here is a close-up of the Elymus virginicus.

Sunday, August 5, 2012. A cicada in one of the later nymphal stages, not yet ready to leave the ground. I was fortunate to be able to witness this incredible life change. A few cicadas had exited their underground tunnels underneath a tree directly behind a fence where I had a white sheet hung to attract moths. A couple of them climbed up and over the fence and onto the sheet where my bright light was, so I captured the process in pictures. No wonder they can excavate so well! This is another cicada that.