Tangled Web

Perhaps this quote from the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz summarizes the following pages and images best:

"I spent the summer traveling; I got halfway across my back yard."

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Not nature photos ...

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... some scanned drawings, mostly ancient history. Geocities is going down the tubes in another month so it's time to give these picture...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum)

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The last of the autumn dragonflies, these little guys hold out until the first hard frosts. The first two photos are dorsal and lateral view...

Friday, September 18, 2009

Giant Ichneumon Wasp (Megarhyssa macrurus)

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Despite the female's fearsome appearance these large wasps cannot sting. Their long ovipositors are used to deposit their eggs within th...

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Lance-tipped Darner (Aeshna constricta)

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One of several local species of Mosaic Darners, this specimen is a male, found downtown, presumably stunned by a collision with a vehicle. A...

Monday, August 31, 2009

Reptiles of the Riverbank

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Tame and harmless, the Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is a common denizen of our fields and gardens. This one measured a little over a f...

Friday, August 28, 2009

Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)

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... with four leaves. Uncommon, occurring about one in ten thousand times, but it happens. More than four leaflets are possible, I have foun...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Halloween Pennant (Celithemis eponina)

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The Halloween Pennant is one of our most colorful dragonflies. The reddish tint on the wings, and red pterostigmata and abdominal stripe ind...

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