Happy First Day of Winter!
Remember yesterday when I said that you'd never mistake a winter day for summer? Well, you may very well mistake it for spring:
There's all kinds of irony here. This wasn't even the high temperature today. It also rained all day (this would have been about a foot of snow if it had been colder... much colder), so I could not do a bug walk. I had to turn on the porch light to attract bugs, and until late in the evening that didn't even work.
There was not much variety on the porch tonight, but there were huge numbers of insects. More on that in a minute...
Stonefly on the porch light
There had to be at least a thousand springtails on the porch tonight. For the last few days they have been hard to find, and then you get a warm, rainy day, turn on the porch light, and they appear.
Sow bug
Winter crane fly
Arachnid Appreciation:
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This scampered across the rug in the living room this afternoon. It is pictured here inside the bug vacuum before I released it outside.
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