Springfield Plateau

Springfield Plateau Chapter of the Missouri Master Naturalist™ is a community based natural resource education and volunteer program. Its purpose is to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach and service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities for the State of Missouri.

Missouri Master Naturalists- Springfield Plateau Chapter

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Friendly Butterflies

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Beauty with a Crescent beauty What can bring more joy to a child than a butterfly willing to rest on her finger? We had a lot of Silvery...

Friday, July 29, 2011

Japanese Beetles

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Beetles take in a little grape Japanese Beetles have a sweet tooth, or at least a sweet mandible. While they seemingly can eat anything ...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Weaver Ants

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Weaver ant gluing leaves The May issue of National Geographic had a fascinating article on weaver ants. Mark Moffett captures incredible...

Monday, July 25, 2011

Deer Exclosure

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Jeff's Nature Home Page Linda Chorice of the Springfield Conservation Nature Center pointed me to a story on a deer exclosure on NP...

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Green June Beetle-NOT!

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Note: Our beetle- Click pictures to enlarge Thanks to an alert Shelly Cox* from MDC we have a new ID below. I posted a Green June Beet...

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Terrible Hairy Fly

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Hairy Fly- AFP- BBC You want rare? How about the wingless Terrible Hairy Fly, Mormotomyia hirsuta . This wasn't written by our Buck...

Friday, July 15, 2011

Rattlesnake Master

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Click to enlarge It is always exciting to find a new species on Bull Creek. We just found the first Rattlesnake Master on our place. Yo...

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Bob and Barb: We are a retired physician and nurse, writing to advance the cause of nature through education. We are active in Missouri Master Naturalists as well as a wide variety of like minded Conservation organizations.

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