It's Spring, and the young naturalist's heart goes to....record keeping!

[Dmmetler]

In checking DD's logs for the last week, she currently has/is following

 

1) ball python (indoors, permanent pet)

2) corn snake (indoors, permanent pet)

3) neonate red eared slider (head starting project, will keep until required growth is achieved)

4) two American toads (currently in a terrarium until we're done with the front garden bed)

5) Tank of pond water and unknown invertebrate eggs (kept for observation until they hatch and she figures out what they are)

 

 

Outdoors

6) front pond-bronze frog, water insects, hylid tadpoles

7) back pond-Ranid and hylid tadpoles, water insects, fairy shrimp

8) turtle pond-insects, fairy shrimp, a few tadpoles (and the baby turtle, during the day)

9) frog tubes near house-green tree frogs

10) frog tubes/cedar trees-grey tree frogs

11)garden-American toads, rough earth snakes, ringneck snakes

12) behind swing set-large anthill

13) front corner of the house-wasp nest

14) back porch-Harvestmen, wolf spider

15)redbud tree-bumblebees

16)dogwood trees-honey bees

17) back hedge-carpenter bees

18) cedar trees-black throated sparrow nest, grey squirrels

19) opossum-sighted behind house

20) voles in back garden

 

Somehow, I don't think I wanted to know....

[Critterfixer]

Could be worse. You could add a ground hornet or yellow jacket's nest; a couple of black widow spiders under some rocks in the front flower beds, the ants currently invading the kitchen, and the multiple species of ticks now busy questing for their next meal. :lol:

Ain't nature study in the south grand!

[almondbutterandjelly]

Question:  What do naturalists' parents do about wasp nests and wolf spiders near the house?  I can't imagine... this is all so foreign.

[Dmmetler]

Wolf spiders are no big deal-they're intimidating, but not dangerous.

 

Naturalist's daddy will get the joy of "relocating" the wasp nest to somewhere far, far away. They have a place in the world, but I'd prefer them, say, in the area behind the shed where no humans go vs near the house.