Sustainable Adventure: Waskesiu Photos

Sunday, July 04, 2021

Waskesiu Photos

While we were at Waskesiu for my run of the Grey Owl trail we did several shorter day hikes and I took lots of photos. I posted many of them on iNaturalist. I also used their Seek app to identify many of these.

There were a lot of these beetles running around on the trail, often in pairs. I'm not sure if the pairs were fighting or mating. They turned out to be Fiery Hunter Beetles which are endangered. They hunt caterpillars and worms.

There were quite a few butterflies and moths around.

An interesting moth on the side of a building. I think it's a Spotted Tussock moth. I photographed a Rusty Tussock moth caterpillar last summer.

There were a number of these caterpillars around. It think they are Great Tiger moth caterpillars. The adult moths are quite fancy.

There were lots of dragonflies on the Boundary Bog trail. The most common were these Chalk-fronted Corporals:

I think this next one was a Variegated Meadowhawk:

Some interesting flies that looked a lot like wasps at first glance - a Woolly-tailed Marsh Fly and a Wasp-like Falsehorn.

Of course, lots of interesting plants as well, although that isn't my specialty. There were lots of Marsh Marigolds which I know from the pond at Innovation Place.

The bright color of this Red Raspberry Slime Mold caught my eye.

This Crown-tipped Coral Fungus wasn't as colorful, but interesting looking.

Lots of Water Horsetails:

I didn't realize at first that these odd looking flowers belonged to the pitcher plants. I read recently that pitcher plants trap quite a few salamanders.

I even spotted some Labrador Tea, which I didn't realize was a kind of rhododendron. Who would have thought that Saskatchewan had rhododendrons. (Sorry, not a great photo.)