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Moscas Ostreoideas Superfamilia OestroideaObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This fly is 1 cm long. It was sitting on a plant, aimed away from the small flowers. It allowed a close approach, then jumped to a nearby flower head, and evenually flew away.
Could it be laying eggs? Until I got it in focus, I saw a lot of action with an something that I thought was the tongue while I tried to focus on it, but I was focusing on the back end. That might also explain why it was so unconcerned about me at first.
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2.5 foot tall upright plant just starting to bud. One of the flower heads has a bud that seems to be opening ourple although that's not always indicative of flower color.
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Chinche de Los Cactos Chelinidea vittigerObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
Is this an adult?
This bug nymph was on a cultivated spineless cactus. Its body is about 1.5 cm long.
There's a late instar nymph on the same plant: TBA
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Chinche de Los Cactos Chelinidea vittigerObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This bug nymph was on a cultivated spineless cactus. It's body is about 1 cm long.
There's an adult on the same plant: TBA
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Hormigas Familia FormicidaeObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
Tiny black ants on a sunflower. They're walking freely in what I think is a spider web spun around a flower stem and flower.
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Arañas Orden AraneaeObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A tiny brown spider on a sunflower. I'm not sure if it's the web maker of the flower or not. I know it's a long-shot, but I'd like to know more about it.
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jbeckyDescripción
Growing mixed with Pigeonberry under a tree along a road in disturbed soil (bulldozed for road construction last year). The plant is under a foot tall.
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Bajatripa Rivina humilisObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A short, shrubby plant with spikes of small green and white flowers, growing in a large colony under a tree along a road in disturbed soil (bulldozed for road construction last year). I found one red berry on it.
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Calabacilla Loca Cucurbita foetidissimaObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A unused pasture has a great crop of these native gourds. Pasture has many trees and has little grass, just some wildflowers and these. I remember seeing pigs in this pasture a few years ago.
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Ambrosia trifidaObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This towering Giant Ragweed is over 8 feet tall. The largest leaf photographed was about a foot long. Growing on the bank of a creek.
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jbeckyDescripción
Huge, round leaves on a Smilax plant.The stems had no thorns on the stems of leaves anywhere I felt.
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Palmas de Guano Género SabalObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This is a palm tree about 12 feet tall growing in a wooded area above a creek. in the floodplain.
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Barba de Viejo Clematis drummondiiObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This is the first fruit I've seen on this species this year. This is a good year for Texas Virgin's Bower.
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Talayote de Racimo Cynanchum racemosumObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This twining vine is growing on shrubs and herbs at the edge of a wooded patch by a roadside at a farm driveway. Tiny little flowers!
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jbeckyDescripción
This herbaceous Solanaceae is filling in an area bulldozed along a road during a paving project last year.
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Mariposa Azufre Natalia Nathalis ioleObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
Is this half inch long butterfly puddling? It sat on the dirt in a shallow ditch on a roadside. When frightened by my approach, it flew to another patch of dirt.
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Tomatillos Género PhysalisObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A groundcherry growing on a roadside outside a residential yard's fence, under trees, shrubs, and native herbs and vines. no flowers were fully open this evening, There were small fruits; the largest fruit was as long as the flower, about half an inch.
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Yerba del Buey Cissus trifoliataObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
Clusters of small yellow flowers on Cow-Itch vine. It's growing in a shady spot under a tree on a roadside just outside the fence of a home.
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Canastilla de Hoja Ancha Chasmanthium latifoliumObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This is the grass of choice in this general area for moist shady spots.
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Género SilphiumObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This sunflower-style plant is about 2 feet tall. It has elongated rhomboid leaves with pointed tips and a fine fuzz. Its flower is alone at the end of the stem, but a small bud is forming in a leaf axil nearby.
It has a few arthropod visitors:
Spider?: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52340936
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Flor de Sauco Sambucus canadensisObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
3 foot tall shrub. Most of the fruits have fallen off.
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Barbas de Viejo Clematis pitcheriObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This is my first time to spot this wildflower in the wild. I wanted a good photo of this wildflower so badly that I bushwhacked through Tragia vines to get it. I Noseburn-ed an ankle.
Growing at the edge of a clearing near a trail through a wooded flood plain of a creek.
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Escobillo Malvastrum coromandelianumObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
Could I have seen patches of 2 Malvastrum species in one 1/8 mile stretch of trail? This one's leaves look greener and more textured; the plant is spreading and not as tall; the fruits are smaller without a hint of red, which is why I made an observation of a similar plant after this one.
Compare to: TBA
Growing along a trail through a wooded flood plain of a creek.
Growing along a trail through a wooded flood plain of a creek.
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jbeckyDescripción
Could I have seen patches of 2 Malvastrum species in one 1/8 mile stretch of trail? This one's leaves look more greyish and flatter; the plant is more erect and less spreading; the fruits are larger aggressively red, which is why I took photos after taking the other one.
Compare to: TBA
Growing along a trail through a wooded flood plain of a creek.
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Moscas Y Mosquitos Orden DipteraObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A tiny tan fly on a sunflower
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jbeckyDescripción
My new common name for American Germander is "Bunny Profile Flower."
Growing along a trail through a wooded flood plain of a creek.
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Alheña Hoja de Cera Ligustrum quihouiObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
A tall, shrubby tree in the understory of the wooded flood plain of a creek. I observed it at the edge of a trail, but the stand continued back into the darkness.
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jbeckyDescripción
This towering aster plant is at least 8 feet tall. The About info for Bear's Foot says it's perennial, but te stems look like the stems shoot up every year. The leaves are enormous, as you can see in the photo where my hand disappears behind a small section of leaf.
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Pulgones, Insectos Escama Y Parientes Suborden SternorrhynchaObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
OK, so this appears to be a small bug carrying a lot of tiny wooly bugs. It moves by turning in circles and sidling around. It was on a Giant Ragweed leaf when I spotted it.
I had another similar bug also on Giant Ragweed from early on this hike that wasn't so obviously a caravan: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/52232149
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Chicharrita de Bandas Rojas Graphocephala coccineaObserv.
jbeckyDescripción
This pair of leafhoppers were on a leaf of a Giant Ragweed. The larger one on the right (and in the solo photo) was less than 0.5 inch long. It moving slowly towards the smaller one. I was too impatient to stand still in partial sun in 100F heat in hopes of a mating.
