These are the voyages of....OUR MEMBERS!
Photos, and talk, of the enviromental life experiences of your fellow TGPAS chapter members. We invite, need, and hope to enjoy, your photos and tales. Please send you photos and stories, questions or suggestions, via email to info@tgpearsonaudubon.org, or call one of the board members listed on the Contact US page.
Today, while weeding and watering the Natural Area plants, I found this butterfly in the bottom the yellow rain gauge. I thought it was dead and tried to shake it out of the gauge. When it finally came out, it flew over one hundred feet. This is a picture I took after it settled. A friendly lepidopterists told me it as a Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia). Dan Chambers |
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| While walking in the Natural Area I snapped this picture of a Strawberry Bush near the beginning of the west side of the trail. If you get some time, give the Natural Area a visit and share what you see. Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus) Dan Chambers Note: The T.G. Pearson Audubon Natural Area is located at the northwest corner of Church Street and Tankersley Drive, just north of Moses Cone Hospital. Map to TGPAS Natural Area |
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This is the underside of a buckeye butterfly ( Junonia coenia) which I saw at Prairie Ridge, an ecostation for wildlife and learning run by the NC Museum of Natural History in Raleigh. I was at Prairie Ridge for an educational program; we also saw the buckeye caterpillar and a chrysalis. Ann Walter-Fromson |
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To our delight, we found juvenile gray tree frogs (Hyla
versicolor or Hyla chrysocelis) on many of the milkweed plants at Prairie
Ridge. Like this one, the frogs sat on the top of a leaf on the shaded
side of the plant. The milkweed stand was on a slight rise above a small
pond, well away from woods. . Ann Walter-Fromson September 11, 2005 |
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This monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) was having a meal on milkweed at Prairie Ridge. Ann Walter-Fromson |
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