Allium up close
Yellow Foxglove / Digitalis grandiflora
Balsam or Hybrid Poplar catkins
A touch of blue
Malachite butterfly on blue
Monkeyflower / Mimulus
Button-eyes
Catkins
Baby Larch cone
Wild Gooseberry
A welcome splash of red
The joy of spring
Blossom
Canada Buffaloberry / Shepherdia canadensis
Signs of spring
Blossom - pretty in pink
Pasqueflower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Feed me
Pika, up close
Lovely lady
Puffed up for warmth
Yellow and red
A splash of red
Elephant's ears / Bergenia cordifolia
First Morel mushroom of the year (for me)
Morel mushroom in its natural setting
Sunlit moss
Delicate blossom
Purple Iris
Young Richardson's Ground Squirrel
Western Tent caterpillars - a tight community
Black-billed Magpie
Before and after the petals fall
Bleeding hearts
Lichen from the Whaleback hills
Western Tent Caterpillar - one of many
Convergent Ladybug / Hippodamia convergens
Shades of orange
When black isn't really black
A little blossom flower
Spiny Rose Gall
Fritillary
Western Tent Caterpillars
Pasqueflower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Colour for a dreary day
A snack that is sure to tickle
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Barberry
The dreaded Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
Purple avens / Geum rivale
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Shrubby Penstemon / Penstemon fruticosus
Checkerspot sp.
Wood Lily
Stink Bug / Banasa dimidiata
Wild Chives / Allium schoenoprasum
Least Chipmunk / Tamias minimus
Ambrosia sp.
Spotted Coralroot / Corallorhiza maculata
Lyn's cat
Unidentified plant along Bertha Falls Trail, Water…
Brightening up the forest
Western Toad / Boreal Toad / Bufo boreas
Longing for Poppy time
Delicate Cornflower
Prairie Crocuses covered in water droplets
Potentilla nepalensis, 'Miss Wilmott'
Nicotiana (Tobacco Plant)
Brrr ... shiver
Vibrant Lilies
Meerkat on guard
Ice crystals on Prairie Crocus
Purple Avens
Eyes like Licorice Allsorts
Baby Barred Owl
Leopard Lacewing / Cethosia cyane
Purple-flowering Raspberry
Golden Columbine / Aquilegia chrysantha
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Looks a long way down from up here
Tiny, bright-eyed Northern Pygmy-owl
Columbian Ground Squirrel
Autumn Crocus
Golden Eagle named Spirit
Delicate damselfly
Bohemian Waxwing in glorious sunshine
Incomplete
A mix of citrus colours
Beauty in the forest
A moment of closeness
Poppy seedhead with pink bokeh
Dragonfly paradise
Dreaming of summer flowers
Tiny predator with prey
One of my favourite finds
Blending in
Irresistibly cute
Newly burst Poppy
Stinkhorn fungus / Mutinus elegans
Purple and white
White Admiral
Mountain Sheep
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Delicate hoar frost
A ferocious hunter, popcan-size
Northern Pygmy-owl pellet
A splash of colour
Frosted Rose hips
Wild Licorice seedpods / Glycyrrhiza lepidota
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Hoar frost on barbed-wire
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pileated Woodpecker
Summer memories
Delicate edging of a lily pad
Like rays of sunshine
White Stork
Let the sun shine
American Three-toed Woodpecker male
She won't have a headache tonight ....
Soft touch of colour
Rare (in Alberta) American Three-toed Woodpecker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Artistic Lily
Shaggy Manes
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Harvestman
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After a volunteer shift on 23 July 2014, I wasn't too far away from the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area, where I was finally going to go on a botany walk with friends. Having been to this location several times before, I knew it was a short, easy, flat trail, and that I could go as far as I wanted and then turn back early, which is what I did. I missed pretty well all the botany and birding walks last year, which was quite depressing. The main thing I wanted to see there were the Nodding / Musk Thistles, as they are my favourite species of Thistle. They are called a "weed", but they are beautiful and I love to see and photograph them.
With a couple of hours to "kill" between volunteering and the walk, I spent them at the Reader Rock Garden, which was just a few minutes' drive away from the evening botany walk location. Happened to notice this Harvestman (hope I have the correct ID) hanging out on a leaf.
“What most people do not seem to know is that they are not spiders, but members of a different group that is closely related to spiders, and they should correctly be called Harvestmen.
There are at least eight species of harvestmen in Alberta, but Phalangium opilio is by far the most likely to be seen. They look rather spider-like, but the legs are much longer and thinner than those of most spiders and they have only one body part as opposed to the two that spiders have. They also lack the poison glands and the silk-producing glands that spiders have.
The biggest myth concerning Harvestmen concerns how poisonous they are. They are not poisonous, and completely lack the toxin producing glands that spiders have. They do have scent glands that produce a peculiar smelling fluid when the animal is disturbed. This probably acts as a repellant to some predators.
Found throughout Alberta. Harvestmen are found throughout the world, but Phalangium opilio is restricted to North America, Europe and temperate Asia.” From the Royal Alberta Museum.
royalalbertamuseum.ca/research/lifeSciences/invertebrateZ...
With a couple of hours to "kill" between volunteering and the walk, I spent them at the Reader Rock Garden, which was just a few minutes' drive away from the evening botany walk location. Happened to notice this Harvestman (hope I have the correct ID) hanging out on a leaf.
“What most people do not seem to know is that they are not spiders, but members of a different group that is closely related to spiders, and they should correctly be called Harvestmen.
There are at least eight species of harvestmen in Alberta, but Phalangium opilio is by far the most likely to be seen. They look rather spider-like, but the legs are much longer and thinner than those of most spiders and they have only one body part as opposed to the two that spiders have. They also lack the poison glands and the silk-producing glands that spiders have.
The biggest myth concerning Harvestmen concerns how poisonous they are. They are not poisonous, and completely lack the toxin producing glands that spiders have. They do have scent glands that produce a peculiar smelling fluid when the animal is disturbed. This probably acts as a repellant to some predators.
Found throughout Alberta. Harvestmen are found throughout the world, but Phalangium opilio is restricted to North America, Europe and temperate Asia.” From the Royal Alberta Museum.
royalalbertamuseum.ca/research/lifeSciences/invertebrateZ...
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