What’s Richard Stickney, Lead Conservatory Associate here at the Museum, doing? He’s photographing a tiger beetle. It’s a Six-spotted Tiger Beetle. If you’ve read the last post about these beetles you would have seen a picture of tiger beetle parts on the path. By reading the text you may have come to think it would [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for March, 2010
Now Showing
March 27th, 2010During the past week many new flowers, animals and insects have appeared. First, a few plants. A few trees. Finally! After having seen damselflies emerge from the Wetlands since the 19th of March I was able to get a photo of one, a Fragile Forktail, another “punctuation mark” insect. Reptiles made themselves more available for viewing [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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A Tiger Drama
March 25th, 2010I saw the first Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (Cicindela sexguttata) of the season on the 19th of March. I’ve seen several others since. These beetles are often encountered in spring on the path or on the rocks alongside the path between Catch the Wind and Explore the Wild. Tiger beetles are small (about 1/2″) but fierce predators. [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Bluebird Update
March 18th, 2010Immediately after posting “Bluebird Boxes” I went out to Catch the Wind and this is what I saw! Both the male and female had several peeks inside the boxes. It’s still uncertain, however, whether or not they will choose to use this particular box. But, two of the other boxes are being very carefully inspected by [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Bluebird Boxes
March 18th, 2010We’ve recently acquired five new nest boxes. The boxes are intended for Eastern Bluebirds but I think that Carolina Chickadees, House Wrens, or Tree Swallows (a long shot, but you never know) could use the boxes. I’d be happy with any of the above. The boxes were donated by Ken Kernodle, Steve McDaniel, and John Boone [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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A Question Mark, a Comma, and a Question of Origin
March 17th, 2010Over the past few weeks I’ve seen several species of butterfly winging through the outdoor exhibits. Two of those species are very similar in appearance and both, if you’re hearing them for the first time, have rather odd names, Question Mark and Eastern Comma. Even their Latin names reflect the strangeness of the common names, [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Fish Crows (w/audio this time) and Herp and Ode Updates
March 10th, 2010Fish Crows continued to fly over on Tuesday (3/9). I searched my personal audio library that I keep for video soundtracks and found a file that contains the nasal calls of the Fish Crows as they wing by. Have a listen here: The same day, Spring Peepers, Upland Chorus Frogs, (The chorus frogs are the [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Fish Crow and Lep Update
March 9th, 2010Though Fish Crows have been seen and heard in our area (Piedmont) for several weeks, Saturday (3/6) was the first sighting for me at the Museum. If I hadn’t heard them first I would have passed them off as American Crows. Although Fish Crows are a bit smaller the two species look very much alike. [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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Buds and Birds
March 6th, 2010Some pre-spring happenings at the Museum… Get outdoors and have a look around for yourself, and let me know what you see! Read the rest of this entry »
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