For Science this year we are working on an Encyclopedia of Life On Our Hill. We live on a beautiful acreage in the country. The pastures are rented out to a cow farmer and we keep chickens and ducks. Our lovely neighbours just got a goat too! Mainly though, the animal encyclopedia will cover the wild birds, bugs and other critters we run into. Special thanks to our neighbours on the hill, Gayle and Travis, for contributing to the Encyclopedia, including the great hummingbird shots. Everytime I see the hummingbirds they get away before I get back with the camera! We will add to this as we photograph more things. My favourite bird watching season is almost upon us!
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- Shrew
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- Shrew
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- Opossum
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- Opossum
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- Green Tree Frog
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- Green Tree Frog
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- Velvet Ant/Cow Killer Ant
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- Five-lined Skink
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- Eastern Hercules Beetle
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- Baby stick bug
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- Earthworm
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- Fire Fly
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- Another as yet unidentified beetle
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- Unidentified Beetle
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- Black widow tying up paralyzed stick bug
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- Black Racer
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- Black Racer
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- Speckled King Snake Skin
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- Fire ants consuming snake skin
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- A slug nursery
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- Ping and pong. Mallard/Runner ducks
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- WHAT IS THIS MOTH? I have seen more than one and they all curve like that.
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- Unidentified Cicada
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- Striped Bark Scorpion
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- Striped Bark Scorpion
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- The Pullets moved into the coop.
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- Company/Monseigneur Compagnie Le Chat
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- Luna Moth
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- Luna Moth
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- Shadow Cat/Kindle/Our Cat
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- Ping and Pong down at the pond
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- Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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- Male Ruby Throated Hummingbird
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- Fire ants building new hill.
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- Katydid
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- Brown stink bug?
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- Western Rat Snake in the chicken coop
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- Western Rat Snake in the chicken coop
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- Western Rat Snake
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- Rat Snake in JDs tank
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- Speckled King Snake baby
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- Speckled King Snake baby
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- Speckled King Snake baby. Beautiful colours.
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- Western Rat Snake
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- Even Dulcie gets in on the snake examinations.
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- Another Western Rat Snake
The Unrepeatables 
Hi Caitlyn. This is your cousin Christina! I am going to send the unidentified pics to my sister-in-law as she is an insect expert and see if she knows what they are for you!
Thanks!! I thought it would be easy. How many 2 inch black and green species of cicada can there be? Lots it turns out 🙂
She gets excited about bugs! She’s stoked about it so I’m giving sharing your link on facebook for her!
My sister in law suggested posting those pics on the Entomology face book page…probably get a quick answer that way!
My Bio prof is an entomologist and says the red one is a long horned beetle, the black one is a ground beetle and the moth is a geometrid moth. He could not specify what kind of cicada the cicada was.
Awesome!