A nice snowy day. The only problem: as I walked the trail, snow kept pelting me from the trees, as if nature decided to play with snowballs.
A poem to start us off:
By Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued
Winter stonefly (photo lightened to show detail)
snowflake on a spider web?
A little crisscross
First time here
(A nicer name than King Philip’s Cave, I think)
First, a pupa from a fledgling
An autumn day, after a two day downpour.
Autumn in Western Massachusetts is always special. Fitzgerald Lake trail: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/massachusetts/fitzgerald-lake-trail-and-hillside-trail-loop
Vespula cf flavipilosa
A crime scene:
Pardosa in Lycosidae?
fall abstract:
Nematus latitarsus, aka Dusky birch sawfly. Note six pairs of prolegs.
Cute!
Argiope
Another Hippoboscidae, Lipoptena cervi?
a little wild 