Aug 29, 2016 | Beavers, Mammals
The Value of One Beaver Dam includes images and video clips that I have taken above just this one dam. The creatures that use this area include Great Blue Herons, Mallards, Common Mergansers, Solitairy Sandpipers, Belted Kingfishers, and American Dippers all of which...
Aug 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
On August 27, 2016 I found this bunch of Pearly Everlasting at about the 2,000 foot elevation at Eaglecrest in Juneau, Alaska. Of interest is the wind was really strong and bumblebees and other insects were hanging on to the flowers and feeding. I think one of them...
Aug 28, 2016 | Butterflies and Moths, Insects
Mourning Cloak Butterfly includes a few images that illustrates its life cycle. We often see them early in the spring because they overwinter as adults. Sap from the trees that Red-breasted Sapsuckers drill wells in may be quite important as an early season food for...
Aug 26, 2016 | Insects, Other Insects
Blow Fly Maggots decomposing a Salmon Carcass is a series of video clips taken over five days. I think once the blow fly eggs had hatched it took their larvae (maggots) about 5-6 days to decompose this chum salmon carcass....
Aug 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
Slime Molds shows some of the fascinating ones I have seen around Juneau. The only insects that I have seen coming to them have been fungus gnats. To learn more about slime molds look at Help–I’ve Been Slimed! (slime molds) by Bob Armstrong and Marge...