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Life on The Edge: Photo Friday - A Beetle's Perspective
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Friday, November 25, 2016. Photo Friday - A Beetle's Perspective. A blister beetle, Epicauta funebris. Seeks a high spot from which he surveys his domain. Posted by Edge of Appalachia Preserve. The Edge of Appalachia Preserve System is co-owned and managed by the Cincinnati Museum Center and The Nature Conservancy in Ohio. Connect with Cincinnati Museum Center. And The Nature Conservancy.
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Life on The Edge: Environmental Education
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. The Edge of Appalachia Preserve System has been conducting outdoor Field Classes for the youth of Adams County for over 25 years and corresponding in-class programming for over 20 years. Currently, all 4. This past fall, 4. In class programming takes place during the winter months and currently includes grades 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. In-class sessions, like the field classes are planned ...
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Life on The Edge: December 2016
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Friday, December 30, 2016. Photo Friday: Prickly Personality. A native thistle, Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor) sports thumb piercing spikes below a myriad of lavender flower petals. Posted by Edge of Appalachia Preserve. Friday, December 23, 2016. Photo Friday: A Slimy Smile. With a face like that, who couldn't love a Spotted Salamander! Posted by Edge of Appalachia Preserve. Word got...
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Life on The Edge: May 2016
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Chuck Island, The Northern Range of Chuck-Will's-Widows. It's almost Memorial Day, which reminds me that chuck-will's-widows,. Amazing camouflage of a Chuck-will's-widow on the ground. Typical "nest" and 2 eggs of chuck-will's-widows. (Photo by Rich McCarty). Never wanting to disturb the chuck on its eggs, photos can be taken through a scope from a safe distance.
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Life on The Edge: Advanced Naturalist Workshops
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. 2017 Advanced Naturalist Workshops-Series 13. For more detailed information and registration instructions, please visit our website. May 26-28, 2017. DrSunshine Brosi, Associate Professor, Frostburg University. Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis. And yellowroot ( Xanthorhiza simplicissima. June 16-18, 2017. Eric Munscher, Herpetologist/Ecologist,. June 23-25, 2017. July 28-30, 2017.
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Life on The Edge: Educator Workshops
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Immerse yourself in hands-on, field based, inquiry learning at the 19,000 acre. Edge of Appalachia Preserve System! 8211; March 10, 2017. Geology is the foundation of natural history. Investigate the unique geology of Adams County as well as learn more about the geologic history of Ohio. Take away hands-on ways to engage your classroom in these often tough-to-understand concepts...Color...
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Life on The Edge: July 2016
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Thursday, July 21, 2016. Is an orchid species listed as potentially threatened in Ohio according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources rare plants of Ohio list. You can find the list here http:/ naturepreserves.ohiodnr.gov/rareplants. A close up view of a flower showing the purple crests on the lower lip of the flower. The common name "Crested coral-root" refers to the 5 - 7, usua...
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Life on The Edge: August 2016
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Wednesday, August 3, 2016. Rattlesnake Master or Hairstreak Master? If there is one species of butterfly that gets the lepidotera-philes scales to stand up on end, it’s the juniper hairstreak, Callophrys g. gryneus. The host plant of the juniper hairstreak’s caterpillar, but the numbers of juniper hairstreak's this year has been phenomenal. Throughout July, every time I walk the 100 foo...
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Life on The Edge: September 2016
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Life on The Edge. News, discoveries, and events from the Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System. Thursday, September 29, 2016. One Bug's Trash is Another Bug's Treasure. 65279;If you have ever heard of a green lacewing of the Chrysopidae family, you might know that its larva interestingly camouflages itself with lichen. Every green lacewing larva I have seen has a dust lichen called. This camouflaged lacewing larva shows mandibles sticking out on the left, legs out the bottom.