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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
August 1, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the vocalist of the valley, the flitter over the floodplain, the Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens). The Acadian...
