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Okay! Here’s a post for the entomology sleuths among you. I shot this photo around noon on May 24th, but haven’t had time to look around for an ID for this creature. As I’m off to do some hiking around for the weekend, I decided to toss this out to see […]

Surprise! Today’s photos is *not* of an insect, bird, or mammal!
A couple of days ago, I posted some photos of one lovely green thing, and today is another. I’m just about to begin a busy day of washing all of the windows, putting the screens in for the summer, and getting […]

Submissions for the 9th edition of Circus of the Spineless have been rolling in for the past couple of days. This is just a reminder to all that COTS will be taking place on May 31st, here at Burning Silo. If you have a post about invertebrates that you would like to […]

Yesterday, I wrote about how dragonflies battled high winds by sheltering inside of the many small Beech saplings that grow along the trail on the north side of Murphys Point on Big Rideau Lake. In part two of this account, we’ve moved away from the lake and are now in a forest opening — […]

Do you ever see something that you really can’t wait to show to your friends? This afternoon, I found something like that and decided to post the photos tonight — and besides, part two of Monday’s hike was going to be my post for tomorrow.
So, what did I find today?
A […]