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