Young starling, loggerhead shrike prey
This observation is for the fungus. Host appears to be a hoverfly. Observation for the fly here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170135003
By-catch under permit from ADCNR for herp research. Captured in snake box.
Alluvial, limestone woods. Flowers have not opened, and it’s late July (23rd). Note: the last photos are of the tuber from one of the vines. I reburied it afterward. Apios americana has a string of smaller tubers. Apios priceana has a large, single tuber. The species is federally threatened.
ID needs review.
Plants with reddish styles key to L. michiganese rather than L. superbum, but the former is not known in the Alabama piedmont.
Habitat is by a drainage ditch near creek along woodland border by dirt road. Generally quite wet with partial sun.
EDIT: apparently the "green star" in center of corolla throat differentiates these species--present in L. superbum but absent in L. michiganense.
Popeyes Chicken nugget, a chicken bone, and a remnant of some sort of reptile, loggerhead shrike cache on a razor wire. The shrike (pictured a couple of weeks ago) has been using this spot for several weeks to perch and forage.
Loggerhead shrike prey. Frog and juvenile racer were hanging next to each other.
Found infesting twigs of a young sassafras tree in a botanical garden. Shot of the gallery shows the foundress beetle with eggs and larvae, and their symbiotic fungus lining the walls.
golden metallic color form found in this region
Showy orchis growing along a trail in a mixed broadleaf and conifer forest in Sipsey Wilderness Area, Alabama, USA.
Loggerhead Shrike prey. Look at teeth and feet
Egg masses found in a lined, man made vernal pool. 2nd year to find them and same time last year.
Scanned from my slide photo.
Sipsey Fork at AL Hwy 33, Winston Co., Alabama. 22 Apr 1985.