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3343-32. Burrow of leaf cutter ants among leaves og Yaupon holly on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023Similar picturesLarge thumbnails | Use small thumbnails | View as slideshow |
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3343-32. Burrow of leaf cutter ants among leaves og Yaupon holly on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023Similar picturesLarge thumbnails | Use small thumbnails | View as slideshow |
 Highway of leaf-cutting ants surrounded by cut leaves of Yaupon holly at Lake Somerville Trailway under oaks near Flag Pond, near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 8, 2023  Large highway of leaf-cutting ants surrounded by cut leaves of Yaupon holly at Lake Somerville Trailway under oaks near Flag Pond, near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 8, 2023  Green leaves of Yaupon holly collected by Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) under oaks on Lake Somerville Trailway in area of Newman Bottom near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 2, 2021  Leaves of Yaupon holly on highway of leafcutting ants at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, July 31, 2022  Leaf cutter ants highway with berries and leaves of Yaupon holly in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, December 25, 2021  Burrow of leaf cutter ants with fragments of grass around in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, February 11, 2023  A nest of leaf-cutting ants with green and black fruits of evening primrose (Oenothera)(?) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 20, 2022  Unripe green and black fruits of evening primrose (Oenothera)(?) collected by leaf-cutting ants at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 20, 2022  Sand mounds of Texas leaf cutting ants Atta texana at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, December 4, 2020  Some hairy leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Basal leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) among dry oak leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of basal leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of leaves of Coreopsis(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of leaves of plantain(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of oval leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Hairy leaves of spiderwort (Tradescantia) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Leaves of woolly-white (Hymenopappus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Winter rosette of leaves of plantain(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Some rosette of leaves with purple spots on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of prickly leaves of thistle (Cirsium) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of leaves of Brazilian vervain (Verbena) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Winter rosette of leaves of thistle (Cirsium) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of leaves of evening primrose (Oenothera) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Narrow-leaf false dragonhead (Physostegia angustifolia(?)) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 7, 2023  Rosette of leaves of white prickly poppy (Argemone albiflora) on sand mound of harvester ants on Lake Somerville Trailway in area of Newman Bottom near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 2, 2021  Basal leaves of redseed plantain (Plantago rhodosperma) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Reddish rosette of leaves of evening primrose (Oenothera) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Winter rosette of leaves of white prickly poppy (Argemone albiflora) on sand mound of harvester ants on Lake Somerville Trailway in area of Newman Bottom near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 2, 2021  Central area of rosette of prickly leaves of thistle (Cirsium) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Basal leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Leaves of coralberry bush at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 7, 2023  Leaves of vervain (verbena) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 7, 2023  Leaves of summer spiderlily (Hymenocallis occidentalis) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 7, 2023  Water drops on basal leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Basal leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) with droplets of water on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Leaves of bluebonnet (lupinus) in dew at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 6, 2024  Possum-haw holly (deciduous yaupon, Ilex decidua) in Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, December 22, 2012  Dry leaves of gum Bumelia on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 3, 2023  Basal leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 24, 2021  Rosette of some hairy leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Some hairy rosette of leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Young hairy leaves of oak on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Young leaves of cypress(?) elm on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Rosettes of leaves of plants of aster family at Lake Somerville Trailway near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 26, 2023  Oaks and Yaupon bushes at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, December 21, 2019  Hairy leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 26, 2023  Rosette of leaves of woolly-white (Hymenopappus artemisiaefolius) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 26, 2023  Young leaves of sage (Salvia)(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Rosette of oval leaves of plantain (Plantago)(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Winter rosette of leaves of thistle (Cirsium) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Leaf cutter ants carrying fragments of grass in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, February 11, 2023  Nest of leaf cutter ants carrying fragments of grass in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, February 11, 2023  Rosette of leaves of false dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus)(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Fresh cucumber weed (Parietaria pensylvanica) among dry oak leaves on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Leaves of baby blue eyes (Nemophila phacelioides) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Leaf cutter ants on sandy soil carrying fragments of grass in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, February 11, 2023  Harvester ant burrow on Lake Somerville Trailway near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, November 21, 2020  Rosette of hairy leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Seedling of Coreopsis tinctoria(?) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Salt moth caterpillar on a leaf of giant ragweed at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 5, 2020  Young leaf and flower buds of mustang grape at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 3, 2022  Leaf of whitestar morning-glory (Ipomoea lacunosa) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, August 3, 2021  Jewel beetles (Buprestidae, Agrilus) on a woolly croton leaf at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, July 30, 2021  Flower buds and young leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Flower buds and young leaves of squaw-weed (Senecio ampullaceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Some small thistle rosette under oaks on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Hemisphaeric liverwort (Reboulia hemisphaerica) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Rosette of sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Cucumber weed (Parietaria pensylvanica) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Winter rosette of thistle under oaks on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Stalked puffball mushrooms Tulostoma rufum 0.2 m from a sandy road, mostly on sand, under Yaupon, in red cedar forest at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 18, 2021  Jewel beetles (Buprestidae, genus Agrilus) on a leaf of Croton capitatus at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, July 30, 2021  Close-up of a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa with rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Both sides of a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa with rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Underside of a leaf of crane s bill (Geranium carolinianum) with white web-like downy mildew fungus Plasmopara geranii or may be P. pusilla on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 5, 2023  Rosette of basal leaves of stemless evening primrose (Oenothera triloba) together with sorrel on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, January 16, 2023  Leaf-cutting (sharp-tailed) cuckoo bee Coelioxys (female) taken from bluestem grass at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, August 29, 2021  Texture of orange rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Pattern of orange rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Details of orange rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Orange spots of rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Close-up of Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with leaves of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022  Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with leaves and berries of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022  Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) carrying leaves of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022  Shoots of cucumber weed (Parietaria pensylvanica) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Emerging cucumber weed (Parietaria pensylvanica) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 15, 2023  Mushrooms Saproamanita thiersii(?) under oak and Yaupon trees on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, May 18, 2024  Kleptoparasitic leaf-cutting (sharp-tailed) cuckoo bee Coelioxys, female, on bluestem grass at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, August 29, 2021  Texture of orange spots of rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Close-up of orange spots of rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Orange spots of rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae on underside of a leaf of Ipomoea lacunosa at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, September 19, 2021  Fresh leaves on oaks at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 12, 2019  Dried leaves of box elder(?) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, July 31, 2022  Young leaves of hackberry at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 3, 2022  Dry curled leaves of beautyberry at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, July 31, 2022  Back lit leaves of coralberry at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 3, 2022 |