Identification features for the bush viper include a flat, broad head that stands out on a narrow neck. The head, like the rest of the body, is thickly covered with imbricate, keeled scales. The mouth comes with a noticeably large gape. Its nostrils are lateral with the eyes and nasal se...
When it comes to shrub care, the proper pruning tools make the task a lot easier while ensuring clean cuts that keep the plant as healthy as possible. Some plant growth is thin enough to trim with garden shears or clean, sharp scissors, while other parts of the same plant may require pr...
and hopefully it will be enough to enable a species identification and a confirmed larval host plant association. By the time I looked at the last plant, it was going on 6 pm. I was hot, thirsty, and hungry, and I had a lot of specimens from previous days still to process, so I h...
After finishing, we had little faith that the next person that came along would be as snake friendly as us, so we decided to move him off the road. We couldn’t find a stick long enough with which to push it and still keep a safe distance, so we got my telescoping insect net, ext...
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Clipping = The practice of taking part of one or both wings off of a queen both for discouraging or slowing swarming and for identification of the queen. Cloake Board AKA FWOF (Floor without a floor) = A device to divide a colony into a queenless cell starter and reunite it as a que...
(black oak), but the leaves had usually deep sinuses. After consulting a Missouri oaks field guide, we decided they must representQ. velutinadespite the atypical leaves. Close examination of the hickories with magnification revealed distinct pubescence on the buds and petioles, suggestingCarya tex...
Smith, H. M., E. D. Brodie, D. M. Dennis and S. Barlowe. 2001.Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification.Golden Field Guide from St. Martin’s Press, New York, 240 pp. Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2009
nor were any of the other buprestids I’d seen the previous night such asAcmaeoderopsis hulliorAgrilusspp. I also struck out withA. picolominii, finding only a single small tenebrionid (darkling beetle) crawling over the rocks. The nighttime views, however, were spectacular—with the moonlit...