Our stake for a Chicago Wilderness research project plot (no touchy!).

ecological plot research stake in woods

The shell of a teepee.

teepee in Chipilly Woods

With a deer skull near the entrance.

2-point deer skull single one antler on teepee

And Crataegus spp. (Hawthorn) with fly galls on their leaves. Some of which look like weird beaks. If you open it it might have nasty fly larvae and flies in there. One I opened had a wriggly wasp larva inside. Ew.

Hawthorn Crataegus species with fly gall flies beak shape shaped

flies and fly larvae inside hawthorn leaf gall

 

A day of field work doing veg surveys and canopy photography in McHenry County’s Nippersink Canoe Base County Park.


sugar maple Acer saccharum wee baby leaves
Sugar maple’s wee baby leaves growing inside an area where the trunk has split into multiple sections.

original plot slightly compromised
Our original location (where we look at the different plants in a 2×2 m plot) was slightly compromised.

unknown Carex species at Nippersink
Some sort of spiky sedge.

moss sporophytes
A favorite friend.

Nippersink woodland
Nippersink!

Nippersink Creek

Nippersink fence pole rusted
There were some interesting items at this site…

Nippersink train tracks

white fungus on a log
Awesome fungus.

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