blackoaknaturalist: Wildlife in a Parking Lot

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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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Wildlife in a Parking Lot

Sent via iPhone from Chico by my son Greg. In a Safeway parking lot, deceased. Here are dorsal and ventral views of what I think is a California Giant Stonefly. I wish our Safeway parking lot were as interesting. Of course, there's the ditch out front in which I find a lot of interesting wildlife - and beer bottles, cigarette butts, etc.