Large-flowered Beardtongue
August 29, 2019
While riding my bike along the Paul Bunyan Bike path I had to stop to examine this peculiar flower. Little did I know that a cute little butterfly would wiggle out of the stunning large, tubular flower. Although I wasn't able to identify what type of butterfly was sipping on the flowers nectar, I was able to identify the plant as Large-flower beardtongue.
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Monarch larva on milkweed
Monarchs are fascinating insects in the order Lepidoptera. These amazing critters are known for their long migration routes and distinct orange and black wing color. After hatching, larvae (caterpillars) such as the one in this picture will go through five instars - which means they shed their skin five times!
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Poison Ivy
I went on a walk near campus and saw there was a lot of poison ivy on the tree line. It was a little area thjat had little poison ivy plants all over. I was thinking of all the times I had gotton poison ivy. I want to know why is it sort of red? Why is it poisonous?
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The Pike Bay Trip
It was June 28th on a cloudy Wednesday morning, with the earth science program with LLTC. It was a 10 minutes ride to the first site, a mile passed Prescott, soon as we got there the teacher asked couple of students to grab the 2 shovels as we got off the bus and the group started to walk around, tell Mr.Moores ask the students with the shovels to start digging. He started to talk about the dirt n how it helped the ecosystem survive. After words he let us explore and analyzing the dirt around the area. Then once we got done he had the group of students follow him into the woods to do the same thing for another 10 minutes and then we went to site 2 and the other side of the highway. Once we arrived there was trees that had burnt parts on the bottom of the trunks, but it helps the ecosystem to stay living and growing, about awhile later he noticed the blue stem tall grass.
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unusually large hazel brush
The other day when I went out to gather hazel brush for our yearly water spirit raft offering the hazel brush was larger then usual, 13ft tall to be approximate, The problem with this is that the stick's are supposed to sink so that the offerings can go to the water spirits, if they are to thick the buoyancy will keep them afloat if we do not take the thick part then it dies and may not grow back and it is wasteful, To that end I will find a use for the thicker sticks perhaps a pointer stick for moccasin games.
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Trying Wild Edibles and Exploring Spearhead Lake By: Nevaeh Day
While trying wild edibles it was a new experience and it was exciting. I tried what was called a Lemonade Ant and a small plant close to the ground, heart shaped and also lemonade tasting called Oxalis stricta also known as woodsorrel among many other edibles. Our group also had the opportunity to learn about medicinals and got a chance to canoe whether it was their first time or not. My group had a hard time at first and then we got used to it I've been canoeing several times but I'm not sure if my partners had. It was a great experience either way. We also got to try edibles from the lake and learn about waterbugs! There was a canoe that tipped over! It had me worried at first, good thing we all had life jackets. This camp was a great experience for me!
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Earth Science
Over this week I saw a lot of things. The first day we went out to Spearhead and observed plants, trees and when they grow, how they grow or what time of year they will bloom. The second day we went to the same place and we tried a lot of different things like ants-many plants. The third day we went out in to the woods, and to the beach to understand how the lakes formed and how the rocks and hills are the way they are made. Today we practiced relaxing and listening to the nature outside. We observed the smell, touch and what it sounds like. And we went back inside to share what happened.
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Bald Eagles Fishing on the lake
My peers and I, recently went on a trip for a STEM program. We all planned on going on a canoeing trip, during our paddling we all got to experience multiple adolescent Bald Eagles dive onto the waters surface and catch a few snacks. They soared through the open air above the lake for awhile, and finally deported their separate ways. Its was a fascinating experience for us all.
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Canoeing
It was windy on Spearhead Lake the day we went canoeing, the water kept pushing us back if we stopped paddling. The water had waves that would rock the boat. Dan Bera also showed us that we could eat the tops of the cattails , so we stopped by them and collected them.
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