blackoaknaturalist: Back Home Again

A Quarantine Update

This has not been a busy year on my blog, having sometimes gone a month or more without posting anything new. Currently teaching three college classes online from home, and not finding much time to write and post images for the blog. One more week in the semester and Spring has sprung, so that should change. I have a backlog of several dozen photos taken in the last few weeks, so I will soon be posting them along with stories of the experiences I'm having along the way. My overall theme is generally concentrated on flowering plants and their symbiotic relationships with their pollinators. When the mood strikes, I insert philosophical and political comments. Please feel free to share your comments, but please be nice. I try to be.

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Back Home Again

Between excursions around town and American Valley, I maintain watch on the insect life in my yard. I'm still puzzled why the Oak Treehoppers have only occupied two small branches (so far as I have noticed) out of the many that line our driveway. Click on these photos for a close-up look. I find the young, striped ones particularly intriguing. To me they are to the bug world what anime-style cartoons are to real humans.