Blue Ridge Mountains Not Annie Dillard

Ch. 1 –Water Beetle and American Green Tree Frog

Bug meets frog

Ch. 2 -Andromeda galaxy & amoeba

Ch 2 -Muskrat & lodge

Ch 3 - starling

Ch 3 - coot

Ch 4 Praying mantis

mantis

copulation

Ch 4 -Polyphemus caterpillar

Polyphemus moth

Ch 5 – snake skin

Ch 6 – Xerxes & sycamore tree

Ch 6 – caddisfly larva & adult

Caddisfly adult

Ch 7 -salamander

Ch 7 – horsehair worm

Ch 7 - plankton

plankton

Plankton

Ch 8 – Elodea plant

elodia

Ch 8 – longleaf pine

Ch 9 – Hurricane Agnes, 7/1972

Ch 9 -Hurricane Agnes 7/1972

Ch 10 – luna moth

Ch 10 – winter rye grass

Ch 10 –rock barnacle

Ch 10 - barnacle

Ch 10 – gooseneck v rock barnacle

Ch 11 - caribou

caribou

Ch 11 – green heron

Ch 11 – a muskrat is like an electron

Ch 12 – grasshopper v locust

Ch 12 goldfinch & bobwhite

Ch 13 – copperhead & timber rattler

Ch 13 – snapping turtle

Ch 13 - leech

Ch 14 - towhee

Ch 14 – monarch butterfly

Overwintering monarchs cluster on oyamel trees in a preserve outside of Michoacan, Mexico

Ch 14 - honeysuckle

Tinker Creek