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| Ghost Pipes!!!. My family and I have never seen this plant before, and it is so cool to see it!!! This bizarre heath relative has an equally bizarre ecology. Many trees (like the oaks along the tamarack view trail at volo bog these photos are from) associate with mushrooms in their roots. While they often share nutrients (water and trace nutrients from the mushroom, carbon compounds from the tree), either partner can parasitize the other. Or some other plant (ghost pipes in this case) come in and get water, trace nutrients, and carbon compounds from the fungus. Because of this, ghost pipes have lost chlorophyll and are ghostly pale |
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| So amazing!!!!!!!! |
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| You can see inside the flowers here |
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| Top of flower, plus some other weird plant |
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| A very stoic Trumpeter Swan, protecting its young from, something... |
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| ...young that then come out of the protection of the reeds... |
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| ...just to take a nap in the open |
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| The open water at the edge of the peatland at Volo Bog. If there weren't muskrats, cattails would take over the ope water. But muskrats eat cattails, creating open water. Which is then partially covered in weirdly pale algae stuff, as in this photo |
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| Common Duckweed (larger floating leaves) and some other species of duckweed (even tinier, narrow leaves) |
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| Unripe Big Bluestem seeds, bearing small, yellow, hanging flower |
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| Three Eastern Red Cedars, plus some viney-ness |
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| A Eastern Red Cedar Sapling |
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| Eastern Harvestman |
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| Harvestman in the genus Leiobunum |
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| Goldenrod Gall Fly gall on, well, goldenrod. Not to be confused with a Goldenrod Leafy Gall Fly gall. |
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| Muskrat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're so cute. Thanks for the open water!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Tamarack snags in the tall outer shrubland of Volo Bog, followed by wetland and open water, then Oak-hickory forest, then the sky |
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| Buntleaf Bedstraw. Not bentleaf. Buntleaf |
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| American Groundnut. Just to be clear, the pink flowers and big compound leaves are the American Groundnut. This photo makes it hard to figure out what plant's which |
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| Blackberry Knot Gall Wasp gall |
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| Spotted Orbweaver |
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| Juvenile Bald Eagle |
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| Wheeeee!!!!!! |
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| Some kind of gall on a leaf |
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