We went to Hudson Mills Metropark in Washtenaw County yesterday searching for a special little spring wildflower that is typically the first of the flowers that we see each year in Michigan. We were not disappointed.
Stoneflies are some of the earliest insects that we find in Michigan. Here are photos of possibly two species, neither of which can I identify without collecting. But the one on the right is two-headed! Oops, it’s a mating pair.
The leaf of a yellow trout-lily and a flowering southern spring beauty, also called Virginia spring beauty.
Our target species – harbinger-of-spring.
Harbinger-of-spring close up. While only an inch above the leaf litter and quite small it was well worth searching for.
Perhaps our next field trip will be searching for The Herald at a culvert we know that they over-winter.
More tomorrow…
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