MamaB on October 30th, 2008

One of the things I’ve been struggling with on our 100 Species Challenge is finding a good way to identify plants that I’m not familiar with at all. I’ve looked for a good (or a couple of good) book resources but have thus far come up empty. Part of the problem there is that I [...]

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MamaB on October 29th, 2008

Ahem. *cough* Yes well I meant to type this up timely but quite obviously didn’t quite make that goal.
For those of you that would prefer something less tedious than a review of the past, past few weeks you can visit here: Fantastic Contraption (http://fantasticcontraption.com/)
Still here? Okay! Let’s review what Jr. did between September 15th and [...]

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MamaB on September 21st, 2008

At LHF this last week we caught sight of this pretty butterfly. In attempting to identify it I’ve narrowed it down to a Fritillary. I think it is an Aphrodite Fritillary or perhaps a Great Spangled Fritillary. I only managed to snap two quick pictures before it flew off and the one is too blurry [...]

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