20 July 2024
The previous day was once my first alternative to seek advice from Schenley Park in additional than every week.
- Deep pink plant life on New York ironweed (Veronia noveboracensis)
- Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium) in bloom, a non-native plant from Eurasia.
- Japanese bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) with tiny spider threads.
- Pavement sparkling within the solar? No, pond scum on Panther Hole Lake.
- Useless grownup noticed lanternfly nose-down with legs flexed open. Shadyside, 18 July.
- Oh deer … Main points close to their pictures.
I took a temporary stroll in my community on Thursday 18 July and located a useless grownup noticed lanternfly, my first this yr however I used to be out of the city. It’s nose-down to the pavement as a result of its legs are flexed open.
Oh deer. The previous day I noticed 4 deer in Schenley Park; 3 on this circle of relatives. The 2 noticed fawns seem to be a month more youthful than this yr’s cohort that had been born in Would possibly. If this is the case, it was once as a result of their mom bred later than the remainder of the herd, in all probability as a result of she was once a fawn herself closing yr.
Within the photograph above, understand how little meals there’s at the flooring. With out a lot to consume, deer in Schenley Park browse on meals they don’t like, such because the Jap knotweed underneath.
Community gardens have much more meals, so bet the place the deer cross. Closing month I noticed two in a lawn with crops as much as their shoulders. Now not for lengthy, although. As I watched considered one of them opened its mouth to take a big chew.
