crops XCNC/2007_07_10/Triticum-fruit Winter wheat(cool-season) germinates spring (long season?) but P234 winter w. matures quicker?. Corn warm-season
Futures: Soft Red(Chicago Board of Trade), Hard Red(Kansas City)
rodents Meadow Vole marsh, streambank; nocturnal. Meadow Vole and friend (deer fly)
great_horned_owl May day hunt in breeding season; skunks & fish; old hawk nests, caves, cliff. Barn Owl
barn_swallow Cliff swallows San Juan Capistrano
husk_fly Also peach
beefly Long proboscis
gall_fly "Inflamation"; make exit hole fall; parasitoid wasp; moth; midge; Chickadee, Downy Woodpecker. Goldenrod galls (Shannon)
hoverfly BBC-LifeInTheUndergrowth/1.2_TakingToTheAir 34:30 Cranefly uses halteres GYROSCOPE 37:00 Hoverfly
hemiptera The forewings are hardened near the base and membranous near the ends, appearing to be "half wings".
Each successive molt becoming more like the adults
coleoptera Sheath wing Nuttall's Blister Beetle, 400K species BBC-LifeInTheUndergrowth/2.1_IntimateRelations ants/aphids/wasps/beetles
aquatic_beetles Diving Beetle under water Predaceous; Crawling poor swimmers algae & invert; larva tracheal gills: tracheae/spiracles. Youtube newt larva
lady_beetles Spotted=12
firefly Eggs & larva also glow, carnivorous, only males fly? luciferase/luciferin Photuris devours firefly prey
lepidoptera C vulgare BULL? Puddling: males need salt Butter & skipper monophyletic; moth paraphyletic (tree of life); neither frog toad. Dragon damsel
monarch Monarch Butterflies and Day of the Dead BBC-Life/9_Plants QH 501.L544 19:15 Monarch (Mexican state of Michoacan, El Rosario sanctuary)
bagworm Evergreen Bagworms (Marta)
fritillary Viola cleistogamous flowers in summer; elaiosome seeds.
calico striking, stigma
orthoptera This Spur-throated saddle-shaped pronotum; herringbone (chevron) femur.
STRAIGHT, true wings. Eggs in soil covered in pod, Katydids oviposit in twig.
Grasses girded with strands of abrasive silica.
The Snowy Tree Cricket: an insect thermometer
stridulation Femur=thigh, patella, tibia/fibula; tympanum=eardrum(hand drum) frog
snowy Snowy Tree Cricket stridulating
turnbull_grasshopper Russian Thistle (Tumbleweed); BENEFICIAL? purple loosestrife beetle
hymenoptera These are Sweat Bees. Bombus are social
eastern_carpenter_bee Solitary; Bombus colony
digger Digger Wasp may use other holes Great Golden Digger Wasp
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