Swans in fen Eating Duckweed, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
Here’s a good example of herbivory(animals eating plants). Swans eating duckweed.
Here’s an ash leaf that is being eating by two types of animals.
One is eating chunks of leafs, and a leaf-miner is living inside the leaf and eating a trail on the inside.
Here’s a wild edible plant that some humans like to eat: Sweet Cicely.
It’s also called anise-root because if tastes like licorice.
Pokeweed, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
Here is some pokeweed plant at the base of Turtle Hill.
Sassafras Leaf - October 9, 2007, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
Chinkapin Oak, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
As I’m walking home on Massasauga trail I find this chinkapin oak leaf.
White Pine Caterpillar in Needles Fused #2, originally uploaded by Camp Naturalist.
Inside these 2 clusters of white pine needles are little green caterpillars. One came very quickly out the home it had made as I begin to take apart some of the needles. I don’t know what kind of insect this is?
