Fauna Project The weather was hot and partly sunny as seventeen volunteers participated in this week's survey. While any insect with fully developed wings is an adult, the lack of that feature doesn't necessarily mean an individual is immature. The bird grasshoppers shown below are wingless beca...
freshwater limpets (see below) are not closely related to the saltwater mollusks of the same name. The much smaller freshwater species are instead allied with typically spiral-shelled pond snails such as the Ram's-horn. Additional survey pictures...
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (279 acres) is a public botanical garden on La Crosse Avenue near the Mopac Expressway, 10 miles SW of downtown Austin, Texas and just inside the edge of the distinctive Texas hill country. It is devoted entirely to native plants, with extensive planti...
Austin, Texas, March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the 14thconsecutive year, theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s beloved great horned owl,Athena, has returned to her highly visible nesting site just beyond the entrance to the Center’s gardens. Over the...
The "Dinosaurs Around the World" exhibit at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, lasts through July 17, 2024.
In 1993 Lady Bird Johnson, widow of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, welcomed "Sunday Morning"'s Charles Kuralt to the LBJ Ranch in Stonewall, Texas, where they talked about the former first lady's legacy. "When you come right down to it," Kuralt asked, "it's a good deal of trouble ...
Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson visits Northampton to see Dr Miriam Rothschild's estate with its gardens of threatened wild flowers. Miriam then travels to Texas where Lady Bird has planted hundreds of miles of colourful road verges. Director Ashley Bruce Writer Robin Brown (deviser) ...
During your luxury vacation visit to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, there are plenty of family-friendly activities to enjoy. Explore the beautiful botanical gardens, filled with native Texas wildflowers and plant species. Take a stroll along the picturesque Auditorium Shor...
A portrait of Lady Bird Johnson among the wildflowers in Texas countryside in this undated image.Education Images/Getty Images The first lady would be instrumental in guiding her husband through his terms, and he often took her advice to heart. ...
Texas Spotted Whiptail (Cnemidophorus gularis gularis) Ground Skink (Scincella lateralis) Redstripe Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis proximus rubrilineatus) Misc.: Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus sp.) Striped Bark Scorpion (Centruroides vittatus) Chigger (Unknown sp.) ...