Last Sunday, Cory Gregory and I made a trip up to Plymouth County in the far northwest corner of Iowa. Plymouth County borders South Dakota and is separated from it by the Big Sioux River. It contains some of the most extensive prairie tracts left in Iowa, including the Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands, home [...]
Posts Tagged ‘robber flies’
A New Species for Iowa
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, tagged butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, Funereal Duskywing, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers on August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Catching up on Summer Insects
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, Tiger Beetles, tagged beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, hairstreaks, Hitchcock Nature Center, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers, Slip Bluff, Sylvan Runkel State Preserve, Tiger Beetles, Waubonsie State Park on June 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It has been almost a month since my last post. My plan had always been to post once a week during the summer, summarizing whatever I did each weekend. Well, I slacked off for no good reason the week of May 24, after my dad and I had a good time hiking around the Loess [...]



