Diario de cosmiccat

A Pennsylvania professor found the giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, at a Fayetteville Wal-mart. The bug had been "extinct" since the 1950s. Keep your eyes open! Maybe someone will find more!

https://bioone.org/journals/proceedings-of-the-entomological-society-of-washington/volume-124/issue-2/0013-8797.124.2.332/Rediscovery-of-Polystoechotes-punctata-Fabricius-1793-Neuroptera--Ithonidae-in/10.4289/0013-8797.124.2.332.short

This park was closed for a bit while the arboretum was under construction, but is open again. It's been a few years since I've been. I noticed that some of the trails have been improved. However, this park suffers from the same problem some of Longview's trails have: invasive trees and shrubs greatly outnumber the natives. One section of the park is a monoculture of Carolina laurelcherry. For this reason, I find this park to be dull from a naturalist's perspective. I did find some plants I haven't documented for Gregg County yet, but they were all invasives: Shepherd's Needle, House Holly Fern, Star of Bethlehem, and Smooth Tare.