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The Boneheaded Ecologist and the Zombie Fly
Last summer, while working on my square meter photography project, I made a lot of discoveries, including quite a few species I’d never seen before. Only one made me briefly question my understanding...
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What kind of bug is a bug?
Giant milkweed bugs – adults and nymphs – on butterfly milkweed, Lincoln Creek Prairie, Aurora, Nebraska. The term bug gets thrown around a lot, and in common language refers to just about any insect...
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Filling in gaps in the dragonfly migration story
Insect migration has long been fascinating to me. I’ve written several posts on this before, including one on migrating moths and one on painted lady butterflies. We’ve long known that many dragonfly...
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Best of 2018 – Part 1
Every December, I post some my favorite photos and writings from the year. This year, I was either particularly prolific or particularly bad at narrowing things down. Regardless, I decided to split...
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Square Meter Photo Project – October
Lead plant (Amorpha canescens) leaflets were already turning colors by early October. Activity within my square meter plot definitely slowed down during October, but I still managed to find lots of...
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Photo of the Week – November 2, 2018
Compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) leaf. I can’t believe November is already here, but our prairies are certainly transitioning from fall colors to winter dormancy. There are still a few hearty...
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A Bubble-Blowing, Rotten Plant-Eating, Gas Mask-Faced Picture-Winged Fly
Please join me for a moment to appreciate a fly that eats rotting vegetation and looks like it is wearing a gas mask while doing it. Oh, it also has gorgeous decorative wings and likes to blow...
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Choosing Your Destination Before You Choose Your Mode of Transport
Last week, I attended a science and stewardship conference of The Nature Conservancy in Madison, Wisconsin. It was an inspiring and thought-provoking week. There were a lot of topics that will...
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Photo of the Week – September 13, 2018
Hello from Wisconsin! I’m spending this week in Madison, Wisconsin with about 250 colleagues at a conference for scientists, land managers, and other conservation staff of The Nature Conservancy....
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Photo of the Week – August 24, 2018
Former Hubbard Fellow Evan Barrientos came back for a visit last week and the two of us wandered around with our cameras for a couple hours on a wet foggy Saturday morning. (Quick reminder –...
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Japanese Beetles in Prairies – How Much Should We Worry?
Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) first appeared in the U.S. back in 1916 (in New Jersey) and have been spreading west since then. They’ve only started to be abundant in our part of Nebraska during...
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Photo of the Week – August 16, 2018
I’ve been spending a lot of this summer at Lincoln Creek Prairie, right across town from my house. Much of my time there has been spent working on my square meter photography project, but I’ve...
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Square Meter of Prairie Project – July 2018
Quick note – registration is still open for the 2018 Grassland Restoration Network workshop (September 5-6) in Illinois. Click here for more information and/or to register. It’ll be worth your time!...
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A Tough Plant, Not A Weed
I blame whomever named the plant. Giving a plant the name “ironweed”, apparently – according to Google – because of its tough stem, creates an unnecessarily negative connotation right from the start....
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Photo of the Week – August 3, 2018
I walked around one of our newer prairie/wetland restoration sites yesterday morning. The sun was just starting to punch some holes in low-lying fog and everything was wet. A cool and wet summer...
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A Day of Bush Katydids
I was at our family prairie for a while last weekend, checking on grazing progress and generally catching up on what’s been happening. There were several highlights of the trip, but one big one was...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Olivia Finds a Fancy Moth
This post is by Olivia Schouten, one of this year’s Hubbard Fellows. In this post, she shares a quick story about a moth she stumbled upon while doing invasive species control work. Searching for musk...
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Photo of the Week – July 13, 2018
You know how you can look at something for years and still not see every aspect of it? I was walking through Lincoln Creek Prairie this week, stretching my legs after photographing for my square meter...
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Hubbard Fellowship Blog – Olivia Contemplates Poop
This post is by Olivia Schouten, one of this year’s Hubbard Fellows. In this post, she writes about the importance of bison and cattle dung in prairie ecosystems – a topic you might not think much...
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Square Meter of Prairie Project – June 2018
Another month has passed, and I’ve managed to carve out some more time staring at the little square meter of prairie I’m photographing this year. In June, activity really picked up as lead plant...
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