Springfield Nature Center Conservation Trails continued - Springfield, Missouri

July 3, 2013

Female Eastern pondhawk dragonfly on the boardwalk
[Top-down view of a female dragonfly with a light green body which has a black and green striped tail section. It's wings are clear with black edges and veins.]

Ebony jewelwing damselfly near the creek (It is one of the few damselflies with black wings. The male doesn't have white spots.)
[Side view of a dragonfly sitting on a leaf with its wings together above its body. The body is greenish blue and the windw are black with a white spot near the top.]

Grasshopper on the trail
[Very closeup image of a brown grasshopper sitting on sandy, stony path.]

Tawny Emperor butterfly on a railing
[A brown butterfly with scalloped edges to its wings. An irregular lined path crosses its wings in black and light tan across the brown background.]

Question Mark butterfly: The white dot near the curved c on its wing identifies it.
(Without the white dot, this would have been an Eastern Comma butterfly. Punctuation matters when identifying butterflies.)
[Wild turkey standing on a thick branch of a fallen tree.]

A wasp having a snack.
[A small wasp picking at the center of a purple petaled flower with an orange-red large center.]

Missouri coneflower
[More than a half dozen yellow-petaled flowers on thin green stems. The yellow petals hang downward from the center of the flower. The brown center is shaped like a cone with a rounded top.]

Black-eyed Susan
[A top down view of a single bloom. The thirteen yellow petals radiate from a dark brown center. At the edges of the dark brown are tiny yellow dots.]

Lake Springfield (Bridge across it is in the background.)
[A stagnant-looking body of water with short-growing vegetation at the water's edge and many trees in view. This is a narrower section of the lake.]

Great Blue heron (The water reflects its body as well as the nearby trees.)
[A heron standing on a branch in the water as it stares at something across the water.]

Something about this one tree attracted a lot of growth!
(Didn't really notice fungus on any other tree.)
[An upright tree with dozens of fungus growths on its trunk.]

A more open part of the lake with trees and clouds reflected in the water.
[Sun is shining brightly in this area and everything above the water is reflected in it.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver