Thursday, May 10, 2012

False parasol or green-spored parasol


False parasol or green-spored parasol






I found this mushroom outside in my backyard while I was jumping on the trampoline.

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C. molybdites
Chlorophyllum molybdites


Anna


Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Arkansas Slender Caesar

Arkansas Slender Caesar 

This mushroom was found in Bailey's pasture,
in the damp, tree-y part in the morning.



Kingdom: Fungi

Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes

Order: Agaricales

Family: Amanitaceae

Genus: Amanita

Species: Amanita arkansana
~Bailey

Monday, May 7, 2012

White-tailed deer

White-tailed deer


These pictures of these deer were taken by a night cam at our farm in McCrory Arkansas.



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O. virginianus


Anna

Prairie Lizard

Prairie Lizard


This lizard was found on the side of our friends house as we were walking in to go have dinner.



Kingdom


   Phylum


      Subphylum


         Class
Reptilia Laurenti


            Order
Squamata Oppel


               Suborder


                  Family


                     Genus
Sceloporus Wiegmann


                        Species
Sceloporus consobrinus 


Anna

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Alligator


Alligator



This alligator was found in Louisiana while I was on spring break.  We went to were they film Swamp People and this is what we found.




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Alligator


Anna

Dwarf American Toad

Dwarf American Toad



This toad was found by our friends house while looking for toads for Toad Suck.

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B. americanus



Anna

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Northern Raccoon

Northern Raccoon

This dead racoon was found on Rooster Road.
I hopped out of my (new!-ish) truck, and took a photo. 
It looked pretty fresh.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Species: Procyon lotor
~Bailey

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

This rabbit was found in the parking lot of First Baptist Church.
The photo was taken on an iPhone, and unfortunatly I do not have a way to get them off,
so I took a photo of a photo using my camera.


Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Sylvilagus
Species: Sylvilagus floridanus
~Bailey

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

indian paint fungus



Indian Paint Fungus




This fungi was found at my aunt's house when we where cleaning up her deck and organizing her fire wood.

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Echinodontiaceae
Anna

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

white clover

These little white clovers were found, again, at the complex where Kaitlyn lives. They were right beside the bulding :D

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Anthrophyta
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Species: Trifolium repens

dandelion :D

The common dandelion (: found at the complex where Kaitlyn lives (: they're those little things that you see that are all white and fluffy usually and you make a wish on them (just in case no one already knew (:)

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Anthrophyta
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Species: Taraxacum officinale

Pine Tree

One of the many pine trees that are behind the complex O________O the needles are soo small! (It's also the Arkansas state tree :3)

Kingdom: Plante
Class: Pinopsida
Division: Coniferophyta
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
Genus: Pinus

Rose of Sharon (domestic/planted by people)

This plant, bush type thing was found at kaitlyn's house (out front). (grandma told me what it was >.>)

Kingdom: Platae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Hibiscus
Species: Hibiscus syriacus
     

Monday, April 23, 2012

Black Bread Mold

Black Bread Mold



this little nasty fuzzy stuff was on a strawberry (yuck!) at mah house xP

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Zygomycota
Class: Zygomycetes
Order: Mucorales
Family: Mucoraceae
Genus: Rhizopus
Species: Rhizopus stolonifer




This is also black bread mold that I found in the back of my cabinet.  I couldn't figure out what kind if mold it was so my mom took it to the UCA science building and they told us what it was.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird-female

Ruby Throated Hummingbird-female



This hummingbird was found at Anna's grandma's house.  My family went to her house after church and there were a ton of hummingbirds around the feeder.  There are always so many hummingbirds eating out the feeder, that she has to refill it at least two times a week.

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:  Chordata
Class:  Aves
Order:  Apodiformes
Family:  Trochilidae
Genus:  Archilochus
Species: A. colubris 

Anna

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Eastern Bluebird


Eastern Bluebird





This bird was found outside of Anna's window at 6:00 a.m. sometime last month.  It was running into my window with its full body.  It has been doing this for about 3 weeks now.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Sialia
Species: S. sialis
Anna

Ozark Spring Beauty

These small pink and white flowers, Ozark Spring Beautys, 
were found growing in Bailey's pasture when we got together one weekend. 

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus: Claytonia
Botanical name: Claytonia ozarkensis

~Bailey

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Three-toed Box Turtle


Terrapene carolina triunguis

Bailey found this turtle in the back of her pasture in the morning. His head was covered by the grass, so I moved him onto my boot to get a good shot, but he wouldn't come out. At least it provides a good size refrence and shell shape. :)

Kingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Terrapene
Species: Terrapene caroline
~Bailey

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Spotted Salamander

This little guy was found in Hazen, AR under a pile of wood and stuff (: he's pretty cool

Kingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata
Family: Ambystomatidae
Genus: Ambystoma
Species: Ambystoma maculatum

~Kaitlynn :)

Green Treefrog

This awesome little treefrog was found at school :D bailey took a picture of it because it was so cool (:

 Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
 Order: Anura
 Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyla