Southern Ohio Biology

Mark JohnstonBios 275

Summer 09-10

Appalachian Highland (Knob)

Burr

Young Sugar Maple

Wild Cherry Trees

Wild Grapevine (summer grape)

Hickory

Stinging Nettles

Poison Ivy

Common Pokeweed

Top of Knob

White Oak (rounded leaves)

Black Walnut

Harvestman (not a spider)

Turkey Vultures(circling above a field nearby)

Cherry Footed Millipede

Black Ant

Racoon Den

Snail Shell

Spiny-backed orb weaver(These spiders were everywhere, I kept running into their webs, couldn’t really focus

in too well, but it was definitely spiny-backed)

Snake Burrow

Seventeen Year Cicada

Old Deer droppings

Freshwater Pond (Surrounded by Grasslands and Mature Deciduous Forest)

Cattails

Bullfrog (purely luck that I got this picture, they are hard to sneak up on)

Whitetail Deer Tracks

Raccoon Tracks(not a very good picture but there were hundreds of tracks around the pond, in the later pictures you will see plenty of

raccoons)

Wild Blackberries

Wild Black raspberries

Birdsfoot Trefoil

Red Clover

Willow

Honey Locust

Bull Thistle (larger spines than Canadian Thistle)

Morrow Honeysuckle (bush honeysuckle)

Wild Carrot (Queen Anne’s Lace) and Insects

Common Buckeye Butterfly

Question Mark Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

Funnel Web Spider

Black and Yellow Garden Spider

Wild Carrot and Black Swallowtail

Digger Bee (Sand Bee) on Fescue

Damselfly and Swamp Smartweed

Honeybee on Chicory

Grasshopper

Mature Deciduous Forest

Red Oak (Pointed Leaves)

Sugar Maple

Black Locust Tree

Pignut Hickory

Kentucky Bean Tree

Multiflora Rose

Ragweed

Tall Ironweed

Trumpetcreeper

Black-eyed Susans

• The following pictures were taken with a trail camera, at various times throughout this year and last, in the same location where I took the pictures of the trees and plants in the woods and clearings…

Whitetail Deer

Racoon

American Crow

Fox Squirrel

Virginia Opossum

Blue Jay

Chipping sparrows and Cardinal

Harvest Mouse/Deer Mouse/Whitefooted mouse

Wild Turkey (remains)