Red-banded Hairstreak

October 10, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’ve got a dirt common, detritivorous, diminutive butterfly, the Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops). The Red-banded Hairstreak is found...

Forked Bluecurls

October 3, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we’ve got a shrubby symmetrical sun-loving sand ridge wildflower, Forked Bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum). Forked Bluecurls are found throughout...

Eastern Kingsnake

September 26, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the reigning regent of our ropey reptiles, the Eastern Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula). The Eastern Kingsnake ranges...

American White Waterlily

September 19, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the buoyant beacon of bottomland and pond, the American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata). The American White Waterlily...

Viceroy

September 12, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s your local celebrity impersonator and the body-double of a beloved butterfly, the Viceroy (Limenitis archippus). The Viceroy...

Ringless Honey Mushroom

September 5, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the incredible, edible, glow-in-the-dark, root rotting, Ringless Honey Mushroom (Desarmillaria caespitosa). Every year, in sync with the...

Mottled Duck

August 29, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it's a big duck from the Southeast with some baggage to unpack, the Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula). Feathers...

Cherrybark Oak

August 22, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s the pillar of our floodplain forest community, Cherrybark Oak (Quercus pagoda). Cherrybark Oak is a native tree...

Eastern Velvet Ant

August 15, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the bull’s ire, the bloodshot one-shot bug, the Cow-Killer (Dasymutilla occidentalis). The Eastern Velvet Ant, colloquially called...

Coastal Sweet Pepperbush

August 8, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a spicy shrub that’s a summer safe haven for pineywoods pollinators, Coastal Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)....

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