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Healthy bull elk at the Cataloochee area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN. I removed his tracking collar for a more natural look. He looks more masculine without it!
This is the only year that I have actually seen so many Gulf Fritillary feeding the flower of their host plant. I think the reason is that they normally like feeding Spanish Needle, but it is very scarce because of the Reserve's Management mowing deep into the margin areas, and very little of it is there is blooming.
This huge mushroom, some kind of Bolete I believe, was growing beneath a shrub. The cap is a foot across, I know this because I measured it with my foot!
De plasrombout is in Nederland een algemene soort die bij stilstaand en langzaam stromend, doch zuurstofrijk water voorkomt. De plasrombout heeft geel-zwart gestreepte poten in tegenstelling tot de beekrombout. De soort overwintert 2 á 3 jaar als larve in het water. Vliegtijd vanaf begin mei tot half augustus.