June 26, 2020
The week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a petite and precocious songbird: the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea). The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is our only...
June 19, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a unique and beautiful tree of the flatwoods: Loblolly Bay (Gordonia lasianthus). Loblolly Bay is a...
June 12, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a secretive dichromatic beetle that recently made its way to South Carolina, Zagymnus clerinus. This is...
June 5, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the wild corndog: the Cattails of Genus Typha. Long tongues of green with glaucous sheen lap...
May 29, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a high flying easy to ID raptor: the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). An adult Red-tailed Hawk...
May 22, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the more reserved relative of a certain attention-hungry, pastel-purple pendulous plant: the American Wisteria (Wistera frutescens)....
May 15, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have everybody’s favorite garden butterfly, the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes). The Black Swallowtail is our smallest Swallowtail...
May 8, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have some wiry white wildflowers of the Orchid variety, the Ladies’-tresses of genus Spiranthes. Ladies’-tresses are by...
May 1, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a prehistoric looking predatory turtle: the Eastern Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina). The Eastern Snapping Turtle is our...
