Little things alive at Dane Park

[urbpan]

It had been a while since we visited Dane Park, and we discovered lots of tiny life forms. It was delightful.

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[rudbekia]

Garlic mustard is all over the place. Hateful stuff, though I've read that it can be made into a tasty pesto.

[ungulata]

Yep, your ID matches my book: Sessile-leaved bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia), aka little merrybells, aka small bellwort aka straw-lilies aka wild oats.

[stephanietberry]

I have creeping bellwort and large-flowered bellwort growing in my woodland garden! They are SO delightful.

Our Spring progression is very close to yours, which is curious, considering you're so much farther North.

[wirrrn]

I saw my first ever live Velvet Mite on my Entomology trip to Perup National Park in January. About 6 of the little cuties running around the undergrowth- I spent about half an hour just watching them enthralled until my prof got fed up *g*

Love how photogenic Salticids are!

[urbpan]

Salticids should be part of a program for treating arachnophobia. How could you not love that face?

[wirrrn]

Chronic arachnophobes are not afraid of Salticids- the big eyes and fuzzy chops trip our innate "oooh, cute baby mammal!" reflex...

[nutmeg]

I agree with this.. my husband is afraid of spiders and there was a salticid by his hand the other day and I said "Don't look now, a jumping spider" and he said.. he LIKED jumping spiders. I personally don't like the unpredictable movements that jumping spiders make.

[obie119]

I think I knew them as straw-lilies - we saw a bunch in the Catskills the other week.