rspToday I discovered a small, disjunct population of Anemone caroliniana...a 50 mile range extension.
#TimberlakeFieldStation
#TimberlakeFieldStation
I was fortunate to wake up to this view this morning.
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#fog
#windmill
The remarkable termites of the genus Tenuirostritermes at #TimberlakeFieldStation
This is a soldier--their long snout is used to project a defensive secretion. When foraging above ground, soldiers line up on both sides of a trail of workers to protect them. The video shows this behavior.
Tenuirostritermes termites @ Timberlake Biological Field Station
Native American mussel shell midden on elevated area adjacent to river. The white bits are broken mussel shells. The soil matrix isn't river deposit, so human activity most likely explanation. Intermixed with a lot of worked chert.
Beneath a stone at #TimberlakeFieldStation, I found these #ants. Pheidole tepicana is an uncommonly seen species. They have three worker castes of different sizes: minor, major and supermajor (all three are shown here).
To date, there are only 19 observations of this species on #iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en&place_id=any&preferred_place_id=1&subview=map&taxon_id=266053
In the heart of Texas lies Timberlake Biological Field Station, Tarleton State University.
When I check this game camera in a couple of months, I hope to discover who may have pooped on this log at #TimberlakeFieldStation. I'm monitoring for otter, which haven't been documented this far upstream along the Colorado River (Texas).
Update: here are the animals documented by the camera over a 5-month period. No otters though :(
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2023-01-15&d2=2023-05-18&lat=31.262181678602396&lng=-98.60901468575916&place_id=any&radius=0.03539498710481967&user_id=pfau_tarleton&verifiable=any
View along our evening stroll at #TimberlakeFieldStation listening to birds bed down for the night. Mostly white-crowned sparrows but also a towhee.