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Marginal Wood Fern (Dryopteris marginalis)Observer
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Indusia are splitting and peeling off the sori and revealing the dark brown spores.
Indusium (pl. indusia) A thin epidermal outgrowth from a fern leaf that covers the sorus.
Same plant as Observation dated May 16, 2022 when the indusia were intact and the sori looked like pale green rounded kidneys.
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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)Observer
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Feeding on squirrel at base of Oak tree, Huntley Meadows Park
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)Observer
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Eastern gray squirrel with red tail and red face.
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)Observer
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Swallowtail on button bush
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Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)Observer
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Bee on.magnolia flower, was busy rolling in the anthers/pollen collected in the petal
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Orange Assassin Bug (Pselliopus barberi)Observer
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Wolf Trap Woodland garden
