There are lots of great sites online to check into when looking for butterflies. But you probably already know this.
Have a great day -- thanks for visiting!
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| Hanging annual (in NH, anyway) is Lantana. |
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
The easiest way to distinguish Black Swallowtails from Spicebush Swallowtails (the two species that are most often confused, especially if you don't have the plants, and thus caterpillars, to rely on--as those are quite different) is by the yellow spotting on the topside wings. Black Swallowtails have yellow spotting ABOVE the blue, while Spicebush's is typically below the blue, if at all present! 'Course, that's the case with the males, anyway. Females are a whole different thing (but aren't we always! Ha!).
There are lots of great sites online to check into when looking for butterflies. But you probably already know this.
Have a great day -- thanks for visiting!
There are lots of great sites online to check into when looking for butterflies. But you probably already know this.
Have a great day -- thanks for visiting!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Life is Good
Red-bellied woodpeckers are courting, chickadees are building their nest, orioles and yellow-rumped warblers are in the canopy, and hummers are at the feeders. And our peas have sprouted. Life is good!
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| Snags are good. This tree is used in spring and summer by red-bellied woodies for nesting, and in winter by bluebirds |
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| Chickadee nest building began Sunday, May 1, 2011 |
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| unrefined wool from Riverslea Farm makes for perfect nesting material for all kinds of songbirds |
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| Oak-hickory-birch canopy...buds are just popping (May 3, 2011) and attractive to orioles, warblers, grosbeaks.... |
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| orioles love grape jelly and oranges |
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| Our hummer's favorite feeder. Make your own solution: 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. Dissolve over low heat, COOL before adding to feeder, change every third/fourth day depending on temperature/sun exposure. Clean feeders are essential to the health of hummers! |
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| 'Super sugar' snap pea sprouts. Can't wait for these babies to start climbing! |
Monday, February 23, 2009
Just Another Day in (Paved) Paradise
4 million = Miles of roads in the United States.
226 million = Number of vehicles registered in the United States.
23 trillion = Vehicle miles traveled in the United States in 2002.
6.3 million = Number of automobile accidents annually in the United States.
253,000 = Number of animal-vehicle accidents annually.
50 = Estimated percentage of vehicle-large animal collisions that go unreported.
90 = Percentage of animal-vehicle collisions that involve deer $2,000.
$2000 = Average minimum cost for repairing a vehicle after a collision with a deer
1 million = Number of vertebrates run over each day in the United States (a rate of one every 11.5 seconds).
200 = Number of human deaths annually resulting from vehicle-wildlife collisions.
6 = Number of bears killed last year by vehicles in Yellowstone National Park.
1,559 = Number of animals killed on Yellowstone National Park roads from 1989-2003. Figure includes 556 elk, 192 bison, 135 coyotes, 112 moose, 24 antelope and 3 bobcats.
2,349 = Number of large animals killed on New Mexico roads in 2001. Figure includes 30 black bears, 160 elk and 600 deer.
51,000 = Number of vertebrates killed in and around Saguaro National Park by automobiles each year. Figure includes 1,400 birds, 6,500 mammals, 26,000 reptiles and 17,000 amphibians.
25,000 = Number of "Roadkill Bingo" games sold by the Colorado company that invented the game.
93 = Percentage by which desert tortoise roadkill was reduced after fencing and culverts were installed on one 15-mile stretch of Mojave Desert highway.
40 = Percentage by which deer-vehicle collisions were reduced after installation of a deer crosswalk system in northeast Utah.
HR3550 = Number of House transportation bill that would require states to plan for wildlife crossings when improving or constructing highways.
Above info provided by High Country News, http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15268. Sources for statistics on pages 9, 11, 12: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration; Wildlands CPR; Wildlife Crossings Toolkit ( www.wildlifecrossings.info/beta2.htm ); National Park Service; New Mexico Department of Game and Fish; Defenders of Wildlife; and the U.S. Humane Society.
226 million = Number of vehicles registered in the United States.
23 trillion = Vehicle miles traveled in the United States in 2002.
6.3 million = Number of automobile accidents annually in the United States.
253,000 = Number of animal-vehicle accidents annually.
50 = Estimated percentage of vehicle-large animal collisions that go unreported.
90 = Percentage of animal-vehicle collisions that involve deer $2,000.
$2000 = Average minimum cost for repairing a vehicle after a collision with a deer
1 million = Number of vertebrates run over each day in the United States (a rate of one every 11.5 seconds).
200 = Number of human deaths annually resulting from vehicle-wildlife collisions.
6 = Number of bears killed last year by vehicles in Yellowstone National Park.
1,559 = Number of animals killed on Yellowstone National Park roads from 1989-2003. Figure includes 556 elk, 192 bison, 135 coyotes, 112 moose, 24 antelope and 3 bobcats.
2,349 = Number of large animals killed on New Mexico roads in 2001. Figure includes 30 black bears, 160 elk and 600 deer.
51,000 = Number of vertebrates killed in and around Saguaro National Park by automobiles each year. Figure includes 1,400 birds, 6,500 mammals, 26,000 reptiles and 17,000 amphibians.
25,000 = Number of "Roadkill Bingo" games sold by the Colorado company that invented the game.
93 = Percentage by which desert tortoise roadkill was reduced after fencing and culverts were installed on one 15-mile stretch of Mojave Desert highway.
40 = Percentage by which deer-vehicle collisions were reduced after installation of a deer crosswalk system in northeast Utah.
HR3550 = Number of House transportation bill that would require states to plan for wildlife crossings when improving or constructing highways.
Above info provided by High Country News, http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15268. Sources for statistics on pages 9, 11, 12: U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration; Wildlands CPR; Wildlife Crossings Toolkit ( www.wildlifecrossings.info/beta2.htm ); National Park Service; New Mexico Department of Game and Fish; Defenders of Wildlife; and the U.S. Humane Society.
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