During the naturalist training on September 27, a few of the things we saw were:
Praying mantis ootheca eggsack
Brown Praying mantis (fortune teller) eating a small brown butterfly with 1 inch spotted wings.
Monarch butterflies
Cabbage butterflies
Webworms on tips of branches
Trees
Sassafras and Dogwoods turning color
Catkins on musclewood/hornbeam trees
American beech full of beech nuts
White oak full of acorns
Black cherries with ripe fruit
Vines
Virginia creeper turning red with blue berries
Fox Grapes with ripe fruit
Poison Ivy
Grasses
Red top
Little bluestem
Big bluestem with turkey foot seed heads
Deer-tongue
Flowering plants
goldenrod
knapweed
chicory
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Mt. Pleasant master plan
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Discover us and our mission and all of the interesting things going on at the Howard County Conservancy!
This blog also tracks our nature observations around Mt. Pleasant Farm throughout the year. Want to know what wildlife we're seeing? How the battle against invasive weeds is going? What's in bloom in the gardens? Join our staff, volunteers, summer campers, field trip students, and their families and share what YOU'VE observed.
This blog also tracks our nature observations around Mt. Pleasant Farm throughout the year. Want to know what wildlife we're seeing? How the battle against invasive weeds is going? What's in bloom in the gardens? Join our staff, volunteers, summer campers, field trip students, and their families and share what YOU'VE observed.
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The Howard County Conservancy is a land trust headquartered at Mt. Pleasant Farm in Woodstock, Maryland, a 232-acre farm that is 300 years old. In addition to providing information about land conservation, the Conservancy and its many volunteers offer year-round environmental education and special events for adults and children.
Mt. Pleasant master plan
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