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These bees thought it would add some excitement to their lives if they hired Team Echinacea to stand around them watch their… relations. Naive as they were, they didn’t realize that there was a camera in the crowd and the photos would inevitably be leaked to the Internet. This is sure to cause a scandal among the insects of the common garden when they read of it in the tabloids tomorrow. Hi folks! Here’s the protocol for measuring plants in the common garden this year. The protocol hasn’t changed much from last year, but the description has improved; the protocol is now a html file and there are many nice images from 2007. Thanks to Jameson and Gretel for taking the photos. And thanks to the wonders of digital photography, Pendragon forms, the UMN library’s blog, and contributors to this flog. Wahoo! Let the counting of leaves, ants, and aphids begin!
Here’s a practice time lapse series for plant (28, 943) from July 2nd-6th. I’ll be photographing 16 plants every morning or until people get tired of driving me around to the garden. I didn’t hit the ‘thumbnail’ option when I uploaded this, so if you want to see it in its full glory, right-click and go to “view image”.  Even though I’ve marked the position and height of the tripod with flags, it looks like it’s difficult to get the same photo every time. The changing background, I suspect, is a result of the head growing upwards a bit, causing me to change the camera angle. This shouldn’t be as much of an issue in the pictures taken from above. Bonus! I finally got around to completely updating my pictures on photobucket, so I thought I should post the link to the site on the blog. It’s a mix of work pictures and others, or simply pictures from times I have my camera. http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa256/panzerfaustja/ There may be a sudden influx of blog entries very soon because when we don’t work, we get to flog. I was out at Hegg Lake when the storm rolled in today around 11. Jennifer heard the thunder and told us to finish our row and then we would consider our options. Before we could finish our rows, Jennifer looked up, noticed the clouds and thunder were almost overhead and said we should go back to the farmhouse. Everyone else was already in the farmhouse at that point because it was pouring and there was lightning, so they decided to scamper inside. Some pictures from today: i started this flog entry last year and never finished it. I’m just going to publish it as it is… To streamline the process and get everyone on the same page i’m compiling photographs of all the different categories that we are noting in association with Echinacea plants. Status Insects wht fuzzy thorn hopper grasshopper leaf miner ???????????? pupa Disease purple lf deformed lf dead lf Insect Damage Holes Wrinkles 1 lf minor Other Damage 1 lf minor 1 mowed lf 1 burned tip CGhead-info-07sub Head Status no fls indented normal Insects on hd ants ant nest white gunk egg sac wht fuzzy long-legged bug larva beetle pupa thorn hopper spittle grasshopper
Insect Damage Disease (head) whole hd weird weird tufts Now that I’ve gotten a new toy, I’ve gotten several more pictures. Not all of them are with this fun lens though.
Let’s start with the sex. Tittilating thorn hoppers! Mating monarchs! Lusty Lepidopterans! Then there are the critters I don’t recognize. This looks to me like some beetle larva (but I really have no idea). Shiny beetle on some thistle. Jameson has just informed me that these are thorn hopper larva. Around the Andes Tower property, we came across a spider having a meal of a dragonfly. Don’t forget tiger beetles. As for our plant portaits, I’ve got some Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed. Allium has some pretty neat flowers. Like Earl Grey tea? Then you’ve had some of the tasty wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa. The common garden has quite a bit of Solidago rigida, or stiff goldenrod. We had a long afternoon of monitoring today. Andy and I worked together. On Andy’s turn to measure we got row 35, which just happens to contain the monster plant. This plant has by far the most flowering heads in the garden. This year it has 15 fully developed heads and 2 pips |
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