Nov 06

Details from Today’s Walkaround

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Tags: , , , , , ,  November 6th, 2009

Some grasses should be planted just for the way they look with sunlight slanting through them in the fall.

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This is one.  It’s one of the Muhlys, but I don’t know which.

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Nov 06

Census: New Species

Posted: under Activities, photography, Wildlife.
Tags: , , , , , ,  November 6th, 2009

Our on the land with visitors yesterday, I spotted a new fly (new to me):

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That spotted abdomen was very obvious with the naked eye.   It’s a similar pattern to a spotted jumping spider we have (also white spots on black) and until I saw it fly I was thinking  “There’s another P. audax, never saw one on heath aster before.”   The “face” and antennae are the same golden color as the wings.

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