Comments on: a few notes http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/ a place where nature, photography and writing meet Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: bev http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-176170 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:55:43 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-176170 romunov - That's quite an example of mites on a butterfly. Thanks for providing a link! romunov - That’s quite an example of mites on a butterfly. Thanks for providing a link!

]]> by: romunov http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-176115 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:32:00 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-176115 I observed some butterflies with similar red mites. More <a href="http://romunov.blogsome.com/2007/08/08/rtsb-vransko-2007/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I observed some butterflies with similar red mites. More here.

]]> by: Wayne http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174146 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:50:34 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174146 I've concluded that it's inevitable that no matter how firmly I decided that the blog would be a documentation of observations, there are A]too many observations, and B]more of a motivation to write to entertain than I would have thought. And so I end up suppressing observations. Unfortunately I don't keep paper notes to compensate, something that must change. That's very cool about the walnut - now I'm going to have to look at our walnuts! I've seldom done so, because like you I sort of dismissed them as unlikely candidates for arthropod reservoirs, but that's silly. Of course they are! And probably very interesting ones too. And since our weather has suppressed a lot of flowering this year, I should be looking at these things more. There's no doubt about it - if I want to look closeup I must have reading glasses. I would have totally missed those colorful mites, and probably the beetle too! Somewhere on the floodplain there are two pairs of reading glasses that slipped out of my pocket. Someday I'll find them. I’ve concluded that it’s inevitable that no matter how firmly I decided that the blog would be a documentation of observations, there are A]too many observations, and B]more of a motivation to write to entertain than I would have thought. And so I end up suppressing observations. Unfortunately I don’t keep paper notes to compensate, something that must change.

That’s very cool about the walnut - now I’m going to have to look at our walnuts! I’ve seldom done so, because like you I sort of dismissed them as unlikely candidates for arthropod reservoirs, but that’s silly. Of course they are! And probably very interesting ones too. And since our weather has suppressed a lot of flowering this year, I should be looking at these things more.

There’s no doubt about it - if I want to look closeup I must have reading glasses. I would have totally missed those colorful mites, and probably the beetle too! Somewhere on the floodplain there are two pairs of reading glasses that slipped out of my pocket. Someday I’ll find them.

]]> by: Cathy http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174097 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:22:54 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174097 The variety of natural creatures that you and Robin Andrea experience at your doorsteps - fills me with longing. Bev, you needn't wear glasses. You possess some preternatural ability to find and commune with the inhabitants of your yard and fields. I'm so grateful you take the time to share the things that you do. I tried not to feel sadness about the little Misumena Vatia who no longer watches her egg case. It's so human to anthropomorphize. Did she worry about her young as she fell victim to a predator? A line of one of Robert Frost's poems came to mind. " . . . One had to be versed in country things Not to believe the phoebes wept." (Yes, it would be nice to know if the little spiderlings get to set sail across the green foliage sea) The variety of natural creatures that you and Robin Andrea experience at your doorsteps - fills me with longing. Bev, you needn’t wear glasses. You possess some preternatural ability to find and commune with the inhabitants of your yard and fields. I’m so grateful you take the time to share the things that you do.

I tried not to feel sadness about the little Misumena Vatia who no longer watches her egg case. It’s so human to anthropomorphize. Did she worry about her young as she fell victim to a predator? A line of one of Robert Frost’s poems came to mind.

” . . . One had to be versed in country things
Not to believe the phoebes wept.”

(Yes, it would be nice to know if the little spiderlings get to set sail across the green foliage sea)

]]> by: bev http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174061 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:00:32 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/07/30/a-few-notes/#comment-174061 robin - It was nice to be able to watch this spider for so long, and also to re-find this other spider. I'll try to continue to watch the eggs of the first spider to see how they fare. - jalen - Do you know what kind of spider it is that you've found? Do you think it's a cobweb weaver type of spider? Will you try feeding it flies or other insects? If I remember correctly, you kept some harvestman (opiliones) last year, didn't you? robin - It was nice to be able to watch this spider for so long, and also to re-find this other spider. I’ll try to continue to watch the eggs of the first spider to see how they fare.
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jalen - Do you know what kind of spider it is that you’ve found? Do you think it’s a cobweb weaver type of spider? Will you try feeding it flies or other insects? If I remember correctly, you kept some harvestman (opiliones) last year, didn’t you?

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