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Revisiting the PA Natural Heritage Program

Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:44:54 GMT

So I'm re-reading the PNHP entry for Fulton County because of reasons and I'm like... why did we waste time in high school reading shit about biology that DID NOT MATTER TO US? Why didn't we look at the ecosystems around us, the things we could touch and see and explore? Instead we had dumb-ass textbooks talking about broadly-generalized shit. Ugh.

( They could have been doing so much better... )

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Beatty Collection, Frost Entomological Museum

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:03:13 GMT

Yep, gonna talk about odes again. Sorry, folks. Area of enthusiasm. You know how it is.

( It is the middle of winter, can't you at least restrict this to summer? )

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Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:50:50 GMT

Sheesh, I hit enter and it posted. Oops. More about dragonflies, folks, in a nerd science sort of way.

( no, really, that's what the post is about. )

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Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:44:19 GMT

Dragonflies that live in my area, illustrated by scientific name and regular name and (ta-dah!) photograph. This is not ALL of them, just it’s the ones that I have caught and photographed and positively identified. We probably have more kinds of bluets than are shown. We definitely have Common Green Darners even though I can’t catch the damn things. I’m pretty sure we have Brown Spiketails. We have a baskettail I do not know and I’m not certain we have only one Sympetrum species. More research is needed but this is what I have so far.

( really image-heavy post under the cut. not kidding. )

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Wed, 26 Dec 2018 23:15:55 GMT

According to the nice people from odonatacentral.org, the species I should find in Fulton County that I have not yet found are as follows:

( Read more? )

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