{"id":30484,"date":"2013-07-08T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=30484"},"modified":"2013-07-08T14:19:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:19:36","slug":"windy-bugs-botanizing-and-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=30484","title":{"rendered":"Windy Bugs – Botanizing and Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, my crew and I set up our plots at our last two sites, White Mountain and Quaking Aspen, and their controls. \u00a0The dominant flowering forbs right now are mostly\u00a0Eriogonum, Sedum<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Castilleja.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Although it’s been quite dry at our sites, it’s lovely to see (and count, for our project) the colorful blooms blanketing some of our plots.<\/p>\n

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Sedum lanceolatum<\/em> is blooming in many plots<\/p><\/div>\n

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A senescing inflorescence of Eriogonum ovalifolium<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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A spent fruit of the delicate and adorable Eriogonum caespitosum<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Castilleja flava<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ipomopsis aggregata<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

One mishap this trip was flat tires! \u00a0Although we drive very slowly, some of the two tracks we travel on to reach our sites are quite rough, and we had the misfortune to get two flat tires at the same time. \u00a0Since we only carry one spare, Thor from the Rock Springs BLM office was kind enough to bring us another. \u00a0We have since replaced our tires with more sturdy and appropriate 10-ply tires.<\/p>\n

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Field tech Aaron keeps a lookout for our spare tire backup<\/p><\/div>\n

We have had some gorgeous insects in our collections this trip! \u00a0Brilliant blue-green\u00a0Osmia, \u00a0<\/em>strikingly patterned Anthidium<\/em>, Bombyliid flies, many beetles, and Vespid wasps have dominated our collections, which we are still working on pinning. \u00a0However, no Windy Bugs post would be complete without some arthropod photos….<\/p>\n

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A tiny crab spider (Thomisidae) on Achillea millefolium<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ants on a dead Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatidae)<\/p><\/div>\n

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An adorable Solfugid! Love them!<\/p>\n

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A bombyliid fly on Eremogone hookeri<\/em>, a very common little mat plant<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Large mammals continue to abound at our sites. \u00a0While camping in an aspen stand, we had curious mule deer checking us out every night. \u00a0Pronghorn with their fawns are a frequent sight, and wild horses were also a common sight.<\/p>\n

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A mother pronghorn with her twins<\/p><\/div>\n

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Horses eye us before sauntering away<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s been a very productive week and I’m looking forward to revisiting all of our sites in July! \u00a0Soon I will post on insect pinning and our growing collection.<\/p>\n

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Me and field tech Aaron enjoy some breathtaking views<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunset and the largest moon of the year over the Boar’s Tusk<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, my crew and I set up our plots at our last two sites, White Mountain and Quaking Aspen, and their controls. \u00a0The dominant flowering forbs right now are mostly\u00a0Eriogonum, Sedum\u00a0and\u00a0Castilleja.\u00a0\u00a0Although it’s been quite dry at our sites, it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30484\/revisions\/30882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}