Hi all, Yesterday morning I was hiking at Crawford Creek Recreation Area in SW Ida Co. While listening to some Chorus frogs in a marshy area along the lake...
Michael S. Hummel
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Apr 2, 2004 1:22 pm
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Hello, I will be giving a slide presentation on Iowa's native orchids for the Central Iowa Orchid Society in Des Moines this Sunday. This will take place at...
Mark Leoschke
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Apr 2, 2004 4:49 pm
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Hi all, Yesterday (4/4/04) we (wife Marcia and myself) decided to take advantage of the warm, sunny, and windless day to go out and do some GeoCaching and look...
Michael S. Hummel
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Apr 5, 2004 12:26 pm
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Hello, Here are a few thoughts on the DNR non-game portion of Harlan's comments: The Wildlife Bureau has a larger non-game program than can be supported by...
Mark Leoschke
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Apr 6, 2004 12:04 am
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Hello, This story was on ABC News' web page today. The "Iowa rainforest" is a significant portion of it. ...
nutrush
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Apr 8, 2004 6:50 am
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Hello, The Iowa DNR has revised its jackrabbit brochure. I thought this would be of interest to some of you. I have seen jackrabbits less than 10 times in...
Mark Leoschke
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Apr 8, 2004 8:31 pm
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Hello Iowa Botanists and Entomologists, The Palo Alto County Conservation Board is hosting a Wings and Wetlands weekend in mid-May. As part of this program, I...
Mark Leoschke
Mark.Leoschke@...
Apr 13, 2004 3:56 pm
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Hello Iowa Botanists and Entomologists, I have attached the 2004 field trip schedule for the Iowa Native Plant Society. Mark J. Leoschke, Botanist Wildlife...
Mark Leoschke
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Apr 13, 2004 4:06 pm
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I saw two common green darners (Anax junius) today and a black swallowtail butterfly. Lots of moths out there, but I don't have the ID's down for them. Harlan...
Hello Harlan and other Iowa entomolgists, Here are a few books that may help with moth identification: The Owlet Moths of Ohio by Roy W. Rings et al (Bulletin...
Hi all, This afternoon, while photographing wildflowers in Moorehead Park at Ida Grove, Ida Co., I observed 3 species of odonates. Two were not surprising,...
Michael S. Hummel
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Apr 22, 2004 2:54 am
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Hello Iowa Botanists and Entomologists, The Iowa Senate recently passed Senate File 2298, the Omnibus Appropiations bill. It contains an amendment (Senate...
nutrush
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Apr 23, 2004 4:12 am
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Greetings bud watchers -- I was pretty excited to see this in my mailbox this morning. Aaron Brees and I had the pleasure of spending a day with Ed last...
Steve and others, We were interested in your post about the early Enallagma civile. They showed up on our pond in east central Nebraska (Dodge County) on...
Hi all, This afternoon (4/27/2004) I visited a pond in the Black Hawk Game Management Area south of Lake View. While there I observed and/or captured the...
Michael S. Hummel
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Apr 28, 2004 4:32 am
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I just got my copy of Damselflies of the Northeast by Ed Lam. Very well done--looks like a keeper....
This afternoon I observed 6-7 Common Baskettails (Epitheca cynosura) at Lake Ahquabi SP in Warren County. These, plus a teneral Common Green Darner, were the...
Aaron - My early date is May 7, also at Lake Ahquabi. Watch for pinched abdomens! AJ _____ From: Aaron Brees [mailto:brees@...] Sent: Wednesday, May...
The field trip starts at 10 a.m.l May 8th: Clinton County (eastern Iowa) Manikowski Prairie is an area of thin soil over dolomite bedrock on the Southern Iowa...
Mark Leoschke
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May 7, 2004 12:40 pm
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Hello Botanists and Entomologists, I will be leading a field trip at the Kirchner Prairie Wildlife Management Area in Clay County this Saturday at 1 p.m. It...
Mark Leoschke
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May 10, 2004 9:27 pm
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A White-Eyed Vireo has been calling the last two evenings in the same area where it spent last summer. This is on 268th ave, just south (100 yds) of a bridge....
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May 11, 2004 7:00 pm
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I don't know how many people on the list subscribe to the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, but the latest issue contains an interesting article: A...
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You are invited! When: Tuesday: May 18, 2004 6:30 - 8:30pm Where: Beems Auditorium Cedar Rapids Public Library 500 First Street SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
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In a message dated 05/13/2004 9:56:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, robert.dana@... writes: I'm puzzled by that last sentence. An often-made point...