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The City Birder: Great Backyard Bird Count
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My Red-tailed Hawks and other wildlife observations from around Brooklyn and NYC. Check out City Birder Tours. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Great Backyard Bird Count. In the past, I've described bird surveys, such as, the annual "Christmas Bird Count". Or the "Spring Birdathon". In recent years, another annual "Citizen Science" project has taken hold, thanks to the dedicated folks at the Audubon Society and Cornell Lab or Ornithology. This is the description of the project from their website:. Only loosel...
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Bug Eric: May 2015
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All about insects, spiders, and other arthropods, focusing on North America north of Mexico. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Dimorphic Jumping Spider, Maevia inclemens. When I lived in Ohio I had the great honor of being introduced to Dr. George Uetz at the University of Cincinnati. At the time he had a graduate student, Dave Clark, who was doing research on the courtship behavior of the Dimorphic Jumping Spider, Maevia inclemens. Tufted form" male, Missouri. What makes this spider so special, you ask? The first t...
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Bug Eric: November 2014
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All about insects, spiders, and other arthropods, focusing on North America north of Mexico. Friday, November 28, 2014. Be Thankful for "Bugs". A couple days ago the following post crossed my Facebook newsfeed, and it is an excellent reminder of why insects and other arthropods are so important to us as human beings, and to the planet Earth as well. Honeybee pollinating flower in Arizona. Dung beetle pair rolling dung ball in Kansas. A scientific article was published in 2006 in the journal Bioscience.
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Bug Eric: May 2014
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All about insects, spiders, and other arthropods, focusing on North America north of Mexico. Sunday, May 25, 2014. Last Monday, my wife and I went out to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge northeast of Denver. We were pleased to find a handful of specimens of the cute little “Zebra Jumper,” Salticus scenicus. It is suspected that the Zebra Jumper is native to Eurasia, but has now spread across the temperate areas of the globe thanks to human commerce and travel. Look for these charismati...
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kvsalisbury | HORTravels
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About HORTravels and About Me. Exploring the horticultural beauty in every adventure. June 19, 2016. Mystery (to me) plant growing from an old stone wall in historic Harpers Ferry West Virginia. Succession. A short, terse word for something so fascinating and beautiful in nature. Though it sounds a bit harsh, you are clued into its ecological meaning by looking at the first part of the word – success. Two types of ecological succession. Occur – Primary and Secondary. 8211; occurs where there used to be a...
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Caterpillary | HORTravels
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About HORTravels and About Me. Exploring the horticultural beauty in every adventure. May 7, 2015. Flowers in Spring. Scott Arboretum. Everywhere I go people are sneezing. Spring seemed to happen all at once and the pollen from everything is coating cars, pavement and, apparently, nostrils in a dusky green film. Funny how people lament the late start to spring wondering where all the flowers are and then almost as soon as they show their cheerful colors. Catkins are wind-pollinated flowers. Catkins h...
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Archimedes Notebook: June 2014
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, June 27, 2014. Into the Meadow with Mouse. The Mouse and the Meadow. 32 pages; ages 3-8. Dawn Publications, 2014. One day a little meadow mouse was crawling through a field. Staring in amazement at the wonders it revealed. The grassy open meadow put his courage to the test,. For he had never left the comfort of his mother's nest.". Take a field trip to a meadow. How do you find a meadow? One square foot of meadow. And you'll need to get...
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Archimedes Notebook: High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs & author interview
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Hands-on science exploration for children and their parents. Friday, May 8, 2015. High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs and author interview. High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs. By Lisa Kahn Schnell; illus by Alan Marks. 40 pages; ages 3-7. I love this book beginning with the endpages - which are scientific illustrations (with labels) of the dorsal and ventral side of a horseshoe crab (plus pedipalp details). And then the title page, where you see a horseshoe crab scuttling up a beach. And then. If you live near the ...
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Bug Eric: Hybotid Dance Flies
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All about insects, spiders, and other arthropods, focusing on North America north of Mexico. Friday, May 1, 2015. Yesterday I came across an interesting little fly while exploring Cheyenne Mountain State Park, just south of Colorado Springs, Colorado. What I found interesting is exactly where. I found them, but these are unusual dipterans in almost every regard. Vision must be quite keen, though, as the compound eyes take up most of the head. Why the name "dance fly," you ask? Cole, Frank R. 1969....
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Bug Eric: Two-spotted Cobweb Weaver and kin
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All about insects, spiders, and other arthropods, focusing on North America north of Mexico. Sunday, April 26, 2015. Two-spotted Cobweb Weaver and kin. Colorado Springs is blessed with a number of concrete bike trails throughout the city, including parks like Garden of the Gods. At this time of year, one can find numerous insects, spiders, and other arthropods parading across these paths. One example I encountered the other day was a male of the Two-spotted Cobweb Weaver, Asagena americana. Another inter...
