Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
Just for the record
Slime mold on moss
Underside of Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
After a long, long wait
Blowing in the wind
A huddle of shrooms
Pretty little lady
Split gill fungi / Schizophyllum commune?
Colour on the pond
Beautiful evening light
OK, it's a start
Need to eat your greens
Great Gray Owl with prey
Evening Grosbeak female
Brewer's Blackbird
Tiny and opaque
Textured
The magic of the woods
Disintegration
Hidden
Mushroom magic
Storm-chaser
Coral Fungus
Harvest is done
Slime Mold / Stemonitis axifera
In the rain and hail
Bluebird of happiness
Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
American Kestrel / Falco sparverius
Get well, Jim (Garnite)!
Winter
Mountain Bluebird
Spring is here!
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Gills galore
Poultry barn
Little fungi family
Unexpected addition
Glowing in the dark
Penstemon procerus
Yellow Columbine / Aquilegia flavescens
Milbert's Tortoise Shell / Aglais milberti
African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata
Light
Earthstar
Bokeh shower
The Sickener / Russula emetica
Black Cup Fungus / Plectania melastoma
Spectacular
Northern Gentian
Little beauty
Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens
Saddle fungus
Slime mold
Blue
Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides
Slime mold
Eyelash fungus
A tight little community
Overlapping - and, oh, so temporary
Eastern Kingbird
Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower
Young Red-winged Blackbird
Parry's Townsendia / Townsendia parryi
One-sided Wintergreen
Coral fungus
Bog Candle
Eyelash fungus / Scutellinia scutellata
Deep in the forest
Mushroom in the ditch
Blue-eyed Grass
Mr. and Mrs.
Le Conte's Sparrow
Red Clover
Silver slippers for a princess
Lodgepole Pine
Mayfly
Size doesn't matter
Wolf Lichen
Evening Grosbeak
Yellow Bells
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird pair
Pretty little lady
We saw a Sora
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Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Taken on August 20th in the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. A very grainy image - didn't realize how bad it was until I just uploaded to Flickr, ha. I still remember how thrilled I was when I saw my very first Police Car Moth - and since then have seen so many. I have just been trying to find out on the Internet why some of these Moths appear to be brown and white, not black and white. Male/female? Age? Light?
"This is a fairly large moth with a wingspan of up to 50 mm. The wings are jet black with large white patches between the black scaled veins. As well, there are two orange patches of hairs on either side of the thorax, right behind the head. It is this colour combination, that of an old style police car, that gives it its name. Larvae are hairy and black with yellow and blue markings. The Police Car Moth is found throughout the province in or near forested areas. Adults fly throughout July and early August." From www.royalalbertamuseum.ca.
Posting really early this morning, as I have a day of botanizing. I was glued to my TV set till the early hours of the morning, watching the progress of Hurricane Irene and hoping against hope that it will somehow veer off to the right. My thoughts are with all those who have been, and will be, affected by this powerful act of nature.
"This is a fairly large moth with a wingspan of up to 50 mm. The wings are jet black with large white patches between the black scaled veins. As well, there are two orange patches of hairs on either side of the thorax, right behind the head. It is this colour combination, that of an old style police car, that gives it its name. Larvae are hairy and black with yellow and blue markings. The Police Car Moth is found throughout the province in or near forested areas. Adults fly throughout July and early August." From www.royalalbertamuseum.ca.
Posting really early this morning, as I have a day of botanizing. I was glued to my TV set till the early hours of the morning, watching the progress of Hurricane Irene and hoping against hope that it will somehow veer off to the right. My thoughts are with all those who have been, and will be, affected by this powerful act of nature.
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