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| Wetland Giant Wolf Spider, a new species for my family and I! |
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| So cool! Also very large. |
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| Red-legged Grasshopper |
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| Another Red-legged Grasshopper |
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| Yet another Red-legged Grasshopper (tummy shot) |
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| Long-palped Ant-mimic Sac Spider |
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| Stiff-leaved Goldenrod |
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| Familiar Bluet [damselfly] |
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| Familiar Bluet in flight |
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| Familiar Bluet about to land |
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| Fragile Forktail |
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| Autumn Meadowhawk [dragonfly] and various prairie plants |
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| St. John's Wort Beetle |
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| This beetle was originally from Eurasia, but was purposefully introduced elsewhere to eat the invasive Common St. John's Wort. While it may occasionally feed on other St. John's Wort species (like the native Great St. John's Wort), it prefers Common St. John's Wort. |
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| Round beetle |
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| American Linden saplings. Fire prevents woody plants like these, native or introduced, from taking over the prairie |
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| Red-eared Sliders and Painted Turtles |
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| Turtles |
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| Familiar Bluet |
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| Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp |
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| Smooth Sumac (seemingly a stand of the same male tree, as sumacs spread like aspens and male sumacs don't produce fruit. This tree is NOT the invasive Tree-of-heaven) |
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| Winged Queen or male ant |
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| Cool! |
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| It's seemingly in the genus Lasius |
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