perhaps Hypselistes florens ? -- Splendid Dwarf Spider? |
a ball of spiderlings |
a ball of spiderlings -- view 2 |
Caddisfly larva tubes made of tiny bits of stone |
unidentified fly on emergent vegetation along shoreline |
Golden Loosestrife beetle |
Coleomegilla maculata -- (Lady Beetle) |
Larva of a species of Lady Beetle |
Cicadellidae -- unidentified (Leafhopper) |
Variable Dancer damselfly -- male |
River Jewelwing damselfly -- male |
Eastern Forktail -- male |
Eastern Forktail -- female |
Powdered Dancer -- male & female |
Powdered Dancer -- male |
Stream Bluet -- male |
Stream Bluets -- pair mating |
damsel just after emerging |
Widow Skimmer |
Lymnaea stagnalis pond snail |
snail on reeds at water's edge. |
Green frog |
downstream end of section --looking downstream |
downstream end of section -- looking upstream |
upstream end of section -- looking downstream |
upstream end of section -- looking upstream |
shoreline -- south side - downstream view |
Sparganium eurycarpum or Giant burr-reed |
sedge -- not yet identified |
Swamp Milkweed -- Asclepias incarnata on north shore |
Joe-Pye weed -- (Eupatorium maculatum) |
Scirpus validus or Softstem rush |
Iris versicolor and Sagittaria latifolia |
southeast shore -- shaded by cedars - 1 |
southeast shore -- shaded by cedars - 2 |
Ceratophyllum demersum, also known as Coontail |
Green frog in Elodea canadensis |