May 2024 – Ranger Ramblings

Unfortunately, most insects like moths are specialists, meaning they only eat one type of plant, and lay their eggs on these plants.

Many children enjoy our camps so much that they return year after year, but it’s equally awesome having new campers join in the fun.

This spider is the goldenrod crab spider, or more generally, the flower (crab) spider. It is most commonly found hunting in flowers.

This fall, our Earth Studies students got to see incredible biodiversity firsthand on their first trip of the year to visit us!

It sometimes takes awhile for students to realize the human impacts on the river, such as personal use and growing crops.

After we fed and monitored the little owlets for a few days, we moved them out to their new and temporary home.