It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Spring!

The mercury shot up to damn near 70 degrees today.  Sure felt good to be outside without a jacket.  Can't wait to get back into the field and start taking some photos/collecting specimens again.  This year my big goal is to snag some preying mantis and stick insects for rearing projects.  I also hope to start a study on the ecology of intermittent urban waterways...for fun!  This blog is intended to be a journal of sorts as I go.  Stay tuned.  In the meantime here's the bug 'o the day...
  

Phyllocrania paradoxa