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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Thursday, March 28, 2019

I'll Drink to That

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Long distance feeding - proboscis of the convolvulus hawk-moth_( Agrius convolvuli ) Snail proboscis - Wikipedia The last blog discu...

Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Incredible Proboscis

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Proboscis in two halves In the last blog we mentioned that when butterflies emerge from the chrysalis, their proboscises consist of ...

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Winter Chrysalis

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Sharon Hughes gave me this pupa at our Master Naturalist meeting on Monday. Her husband found it hanging from the top of the door frame bet...

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Globe Traveling Monarchs

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Monarchs down under - shredding milkweed in Auckland - CB While hearing all about our friends' Chris and Deb Barnhart's recent ...

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Green Lep

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Chris Barnhart challenged me to identify this photograph. It didn't look like feathers and I don't know any mammal with green hai...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Wolf Spider

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If you like puzzle solving I would suggest taking up identifying insects as a new hobby. This spider was crawling across the kitchen floo...

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Robins of Winter

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What's with the camera, Buster? - REK Every winter we see large flocks of American robins. Sometimes they are moving through a for...

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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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