Common Gray Moth -- Anavitrinella Pampinaria

The common gray moth's scientific name is anavitrinella pampinaria. We found it in the kitchen by the light. (We took these pictures)

The larvae are small caterpillars that mimic sticks. They eat many deciduous trees and shrubs, including ash and elm, which we have in our yard, and even clover, cotton, and grasses.They look like this. (We didn't take these pictures)

Ootheca

We found this ooeheca in November and a bigger one in January. We put them in a plactic container and waited. ystrday thar were only 1 or 2 but today thar are alot more we are going to hatch frootflys for thim to eat

Wheel Bug -- Arilus cristatus

it wus 33 mm long.

its antenus er 2 cm long. 

the beek is 6 mm.

its kold a weel bug.

it wus found on the porch. its pretory and it eats other bugs. it has hoks on the ind of the legs to hok its pray. it stiks its beek in  its pray and spits. thin it suks out  wts inside. wen we skweest its bely ornj poop kam owt its butt so we theek its bin eating laty bugs.     

Peeling puffball

We found this mushroom in the yard. It is called a peeling puffball. It's scientific name is Lycoperdon marginatum. It is about 2 cm across. We are waiting for it to peel. We've been taking pictures once a week. If it doesn't peel, it may be a different mushroom called a Vascellum curtisii. We'll be watching! More pictures to come after it starts peeling.

(NOTE: Ivy has come to find typing a tiresome endeavor. So I, Poppy, am typing up this, and probably subsequent, Nature Notes. However, Ivy still writes up her Nature Notes by hand in a real paper notebook.)

Our mushroom on October 3rd

Our mushroom one week later

Our mushroom two weeks later

Our mushroom three weeks later

Our mushroom four weeks later (nov 1)

nov 1

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher’s Nest

 

I fowd a  brdnest in the yrd it wus culrfl  the culrs are lichen that the brd stuk with

spidr web we think

boletus subglabripes

we took pictures a  mushroom we fowd in the yrd. it  is 12 cm across. it is orange brown.  its scientific name boletus subglabripes, we think. it has pors insded of gils  or teeth. we think it is edbl.

        

   

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Brown Garden Spider -- Araneus diadematus

Ivy spots a spider

we saw a spider.  it wus rite in frunt of the glass door. we tok a pikchr and  tridt to idintfi it. we think it wus a broun grdn spider. it is very commn. its scientific name is Araneus diadematus. it is a orb spider we thenk.

 

It looks like a ball here