Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Today started with the raccoon family and then off to Edward Medard Nature Preserve. We did not expect much at Medard Preserver - as the forest ranger said there is no nature trail (but the county web site says there is) - He said that probably the best was frisbee golf trail - so off we went. We were pleasantly surprised - as we found much more diversity among the spiders and insects than we had found at other preserves with nature trails.

Here is Susan (girl) and one of her brothers. You can tell the girl because her back mask does not connect with her nasal passage - her mask terminates with a white / gray reagon and a lighter colored nasal passage. Here she is on the left and a brother on the right)

Then her 3 brothers came - she is on the right and 3 brothers on the left of the photos

Alert and drinking water

Here she is drinking water - sompare the nasal region with her brother on the left of the photo

Drinking

Drinking

Here she is in the background

May 22, 2016 Diversity at Edward Medard Park

Basilica spider

Two mating coton stainers

Roots

Unknown to frank -

Unknown to frank -

Leucauge venusta

Leucauge venusta web

Nephila clavipes

Lateral view of Nephila clavipes and web

Lateral view of Nephila clavipes and web

Basilica spider and her hat-shaped dome web

Leucauge venusta

Horizontal web of Leucauge venusta

Horizontal web of Leucauge venusta

Leucauge venusta weaving her horizontal web

Leucauge venusta weaving her horizontal web

Some type of berry

Some sort of flying insect

A flying insect with transparent wings

Lateral view of a flying insect with transparent wings

A green tree frog

A green tree frog

Eye of a green tree frog

Pincer but or Earwig

Pincer but or Earwig

Eye of green dragonfly

Face of green ddragonfly

Eye of green dragonfly

Brown insect - perhaps an assassin bug

Brown insect - perhaps an assassin bug

Juvenile Argiope sp with elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta

Juvenile Argiope sp with elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta

Juvenile Argiope sp with elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta

Juvenile Argiope sp with elliptical sawtooth stabilimenta

Leucuage venusta

Wet web

Wet web

Unknown spider

Face of an unknown insect

Face of an unknown insect

Maybe a shield bug

A ladybug

Views of the interesting stabilimenta

Stabilimenta

C. Frank Starmer

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