Heart of the Land Dandelion=dent de lion, lion's tooth(MF) http://www.wildbirds.com/favorites_FAQ.htm Ruby-throated Hummingbird: 1/10 oz (3 g): 1st class letter 30 g Chickadee: 1/3 oz=8 g 3 pennies, 2 nickels: 1 penny: 2.5 gram Amber: mono and sesquiterpenes, nonvolatile diterpenes, 3-8% succinic acid Baltic: Araucariaceae broad-leafed conifers contain succinite New World from Hymenaea protera (West Indian locust H. courbaril) retinite Pine pitch is not as resistant to microbial decay True gums are polysaccharides, do not form resin. Carl Strang: Interpretive Undercurrents Firefly Photuris females mimic flashing of smaller prey, wingless females called glowworms larvae feed on earthworms, snails & slugs; frogs eat & glow most adults eat only pollen, or not at all none W of Rockies O2+Luciferin -> luciferase ~100% (light bulb 10%) Photinus pyralis (Lampyridae, Coleoptera) Slug mantle: head can retract. 2-chambered heart on left, breathing hole on right, anus behind it. radula has 27K teeth. Cream Wild Indigo Baptisia leucophaea flower in early spring, large lipped flowers need strong insect: bumblebee queen bee-only bee surviving winter Jack&Jill in the pulpit Paulette Bierzychudek Nat Hist 91(3):22-27 Jack-in-the-pulpit: death of pollinating insects in flower of female plants ants eat elaiosome seed flaps of wild ginger, violets, trout lilly, trillium Poison Ivy: important food plants for deer and cottontail in Feb. resin reacts with skin proteins to produce rash Gary Paul Nabhan: Gathering the Desert Mesquite seeds destroyed by boring beetles - killed by vertebrate gut juice roots to 50 meters Desert packrats collect mesquite seeds in mounds William K Stevens: Miracle Under the Oaks Schulenberg Prairie: 10 acres/110 species Fermilab; 1000 acres/125 species Brian Swimme & Thomas Berry Milky Way: 100 billion stars, Virgo Cluster(1000 galaxies), Local Group sun 28,000 light years from center, Orion arm 1 pair aphids->.5 trillion offspring in 1 year. Wisconsin glaciation(Wurm in Europe) furthest sout 18,000 years ago John McPhee: In Suspect Terrain I-80 marks Winconsin ice sheet in Poconos NY: stop at Flatbush (Brooklyn means broken land) look in cemeteries for moraines: poor farmland, easy dig, well drained Coney Island: end of outwash basin, glacier from NJ: Palisades in Central Park Manhattan Schist: rock lying near surface in midtown, on Wall St, within 40 ft in between (SOHO,GV,Chinatown)filled with glacial till petroleum window: 50-150 degrees C Dolomite quarry: coral reef in Silurian; I-80 crosses atoll, MG replaces Ca Cincinnati Arch: left Morton Salt and US Gypsum 1959 Montana earthquake: birds left the mountain the day before Jason Gardner: The Sacred Earth 1 acre of forest absorbs 6 tons of CO2/year P.68 Wordsworth walked 186,000 miles in his lifetime Lightning: 10,000 volts, 500 miles/hr, 30,000amp back up. P.16 1 cell contains 1/4 million protein molecules Chet Raymo: Honey from Stone Sun 93M miles(8 minutes) away Rising sun takes 2 minutes: .5 degree of earth 1000 miles/hour toward Orion, 68K mph around sun, 34k mph around galaxy, Milky Way turns 80k mph. Perseid meteors 150k mph No snakes in Ireland: driven out by glacier, returned to England from France, but Ireland became an island before snakes can cross 50,000 species of snout beetles Rick Bass: The Book of Yaak Forest Service world's biggest road building company: .5M miles logging roads Douglas Adams: Last Chance to See northern hemisphere: drain clockwise Wayne Lampa: The Phoenix Land Silurian(440M) corals and shell fish->reefs->limestone Edward Duensing,A. B. Millmoss: Backyard and beyond Donald Stokes,Deborah Prince (Illustrator): A Guide to Observing Insect Lives Gale Lawrence: A field Guide to the Familiar pigeons suck, produce milk (by male & female) with hormone prolactin, Cabbage white: uric acid white color, resistent to Bacillus thuringiensis John Acorn: Nature Nut Yucca moth females don't eat, just pollinate yucca june bugs: feed on foliage, white grubs eat roots, 2-3 years 7-spotted ladybug: introduced alien Pigments: chlorophyll (a&b): MG porphyrin hemoglobin: Fe (CU if green blood in invertebrates) Erica: heath Cynthia: Krigia biflora Jasmine Holly ecosystem: abiotic and biotic interdependence flow of energy in tropihc levels: producers, consumers, decomposers each level loses 90% of energy cyclung of nutrients water carbon oxygen Starling: Henry IV Cuticle: plants: polymer of fatty acids arthropods: polysaccharide fibre (chitin) in an extensive stabilised protein matrix fingernail: btween skin & nail lpate, keratin 060715 Wild Ones Annual Conference Ground cherry tasty Monarda: tea substitute Michael Jeffords: Platanus - Tingidae Sycamore lace bug (False) Stag beetle Emerald tiger beetle Pink spotted lady beetle displaced by Asian Spicebush swallowtail caterpillar/grass snake White-marked Tussock Moth - Liparidae Lacewing larva covered with lichen Ambush bugs Crab spider Halictid bee, green on asters Syrphid fly Stinkbug eggs - multiples of 7 American Birdwing Grasshopper - displaced by differential (adapted to cornfields) Narceus americanus - American millipede Yellow? milkweed beetle Aphis nerii - yellow, mugrate annually from tropics Millipedes: smell almond extract.: cyanide Monarchs, Milkweed, and More Nymphaea odorata, Nymphaea tuberosa, Nuphar advena: Spatter Dock (Yellow Pond-Lily) Western corn rootworm