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Eastern/Gray Ratsnake Complex (Complex Pantherophis alleghaniensis)Observer
miriamrDescription
About four feet long and about as big around as a half-dollar.
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
miriamrDescription
There were a bunch of birders excited about the black holed warblers in this tree, but none of us knew what kind of tree it was.
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Dodders (Genus Cuscuta)Observer
miriamrDescription
The green stuff is knotweed, but what's the orange? It was so thick at first I thought it was silly string, but there were identifiable tendrils that were greenish at the end.
Edit: I think it's dodder!
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Voles, Lemmings, and Muskrats (Subfamily Arvicolinae)Observer
miriamrDescription
The photos are terrible, but I'm fairly certain it had a dark, skinny tail.
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Asiatic Garden Beetle (Maladera formosae)Observer
miriamrDescription
We suddenly have a lot of these, collecting in any sort of dish or indented space that would be hard to climb out of.
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Slime Molds (Phylum Mycetozoa)Observer
miriamrDescription
This was inside a (mostly maple) woodchip pile. Is it a slime mold? Something else? I have no idea.
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False Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)Observer
miriamrDescription
Some of them were five or six feet tall.
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Plants (Kingdom Plantae)Observer
miriamrDescription
A big silver maple came down in the storm last week. Portions of the trunk are soft and filled with a dense network of what appears to be roots. I've never seen this before. Is it the maple itself? There weren't any signs of other plants present before the maple fell.
