BIOS 275 Ecology Project
Pictures and captions by Victor Shambora
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My Journey To Stroud’s RunStroud’s Run is located a little outside of Athens
Freshwater Marsh Yes, Stroud’s Run has a lake, but it also has some marshy areas
In This Photo: There’s actually a bird in the tree that is hard to identify, but it is a robin
White Marsh Hibiscus (Marshmallow)
Cattails aka Typha
Thistle
Note that I have a really old and bad digital camera (it was my parent’s old one) so the pictures are not going to be great, but I swear that I actually went there and capture some plants and animals in action!
Touch-Me-Not
Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar Danaus plexippus
Again… shoddy camerman, but there are aphids on this flower!
Bumble Bee
Milkweed - Asclepias
Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare
Hard to see, but this is a Sycamore
I know because the bark was brown/white and peeling, and the leaves identified it as a Sycamore as well.
Horse Tracks!
My camera is terrible! Black ants everywhere!
Drosophila Melanogaster on my leg
Grasshopper
Fly (top right)
Queen Anne’s Lace - Daucus carota
Creeping Charlie - Glechoma hederacea
Poison Ivy – My Nemesis
Picture of my Leg with Poison Ivy, dated 8/26/09
Also notice the tan.
Honey Bee (top right)
My Trip To Lake Snowden!
Located 15 minutes outside of Athens.
Lake area – Look at the boat mast!
White Oak
Tall Grass
Touch-Me-Not
Red Oak
More Cattails
Damselfly, on a log
Horses
How can I be so sure?...
Red Pine
And some blurry camera action!
Woodpecker
I know because the box says it… can’t see that in the picture though.
Poison Ivy
No, no more leg pictures…
My research found this to be a net-winged beetle… not a moth!
Canada Geese
Elodea - Waterweeds
Black ant crawling into a tree
Taraxacum – The Dandelion
Clover - Trifolium
Honey bee on the stalk
Horse Fly - TabanidaeThis is a big one! And it’s on me!
My Trip to Sell’s Park
This is a Deciduous forest
There are also Water lilies
Goose Poop
This honey bee is crawling into a touch-me-not… two in one!
At first I thought kids were throwing rocks but then… I saw squirrels in the trees! This is what they dropped on the ground:
Nuts, huh?!
White Oak
Thistle
Did you know there’s a type of sailboat named after these plants?
Daddy Long Legs - Pholcidae
Black Walnut Tree
A kind man at the park helped me identify this one after he noted that it wasn’t going to be safe to park my car under it… the fruit drops!
Cattails
Clover
Lo and behold – More Poison Ivy
Two Damselflies, mating
Signs of a Mole!
Pickerel Frog - Rana palustris
Creeping Charlie
Wasp (bottom left)
Queen Anne’s Lace
Grasshopper
Spider Web – Orb weaver