They sat there, on the tower, these Trojan elders,like cicadas perched up on a forest branch, chirpingtheir soft, delicate sounds. –The Iliad, Homer. Cicadas belong to the Order Hemiptera, the true bugs, and most are in the family Cicadidae, with two species in the Tettigarcidae. Hemiptera are different from other insects in that both the nymph […]
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…the broad leave shrub which grows something like the quill wood but has no joints, the leaf broad and deeply indented, the bark p[e]als hangs on the stem and is of a yelowish brown 〈yellow〉 colour. Meriwether Lewis, December 1, 1805, Point Adams, Oregon Physocarpus – Greek physo – bladder and carpus – fruit, and capitatus – head-like, referring to the crowded, round flower clusters. The
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“after dinner we proceeded on our voyage. I walked on Shore with Shabono on the N. Side through a handsome bottom. met Several parties of women and boys in Serch of herbs & roots to Subsist on maney of them had parcels of the Stems of the Sun flower [arrow-leaf balsamroot]. I joined Capt. Lewis
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Big mouth–hidden under the final log with a worm and centipede for a meal. I exclaimed Rare species! but it’s common, fossorial lives in moist woods under cemetery stones and memorials. —-From Exponential Decay Function, Robert Ronnow These are large salamanders (up to 8 inches long) of the family Ambystoma – the mole salamanders. Mole
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“after dinner we proceeded on our voyage. I walked on Shore with Shabono on the N. Side through a handsome bottom. met Several parties of women and boys in Serch of herbs & roots to Subsist on maney of them had parcels of the Stems of the Sun flower [arrow-leaf balsamroot]. I joined Capt. Lewis
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