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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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Fetid Mushroom!

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Mark Bower dropped by at Bull Mills to visit and spotted these little mushrooms on a dead hollow log by the front door. We had an unexpect...

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Picture-winged Fly

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Delphinia picta loves Toyota trucks - REK I have been seeing these small flies sitting on my pickup truck in the late eve...

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Caterpillar Care

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Great Spangled Fritillary - MDC Discover Nature There is a lot of work that goes into the Bill Roston Butterfly House even before the se...

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Out of the Eggs

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In the last blog, Difficult Delivery, we saw a wind battered pipevine swallowtail struggle to put all her eggs clustered together on one...

Thursday, May 2, 2019

Difficult Delivery

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"Hey, a little privacy here!" PVST egg cluster-day one - REK I spotted this pipevine swallowtail (PVST) desperately hangin...

Friday, April 26, 2019

Banded Hickory Borer

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This critter was flying around in the house at a dinner party the other night. Like any Master Naturalist I whipped out a bug box and took...

Monday, April 22, 2019

Morel Lessons

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A cluster of morels in the road - not Photoshopped A friend asked me what is the biggest surprise I had at Bull Mills and this Saturday ...

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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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