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August 13 – 19, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

August 13, 2018

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This entry was posted on August 12, 2018, in August, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged asters, bidens, bonesets, butterflies, compass plant, damselflies, dragonflies, drought, goldenrods, insects, ironweed, skippers, sunflowers. Leave a comment

August 6 – 12, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on August 5, 2018, in August, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged compass plant, drought, perennial sunflower, Perseid meteor shower, sideoats grama, soybean corn, stink bug, watering bird. Leave a comment

July 30 – August 5, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 29, 2018, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged ashy sunflower, chiggers, drought, lightning bug, mars, sawtooth sunflower, shore birds, spider webs. Leave a comment

July 23 – 29, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 22, 2018, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged compassplant, drought, euphorbia corollata, ibis, ironweed, mars, rattlenake master, shore birds, slender mountain mint, wilting. Leave a comment

July 16 – 22, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 15, 2018, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged common milkweed, corn, drought, fire hazard, grasshopper, wildflowers. Leave a comment

July 9 – 15, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 8, 2018, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged black-eyed susan, chickory, chuck will's widow, cicada, compass plant, cottonwood, dogwood, drought, eastern gamagrass, gayfeather, grasshopper, gray coneflower, Illinois bundleflower, katydid, milkweeds, Milky Way, night hawk, Queen Ann's lace, sericea lespedeza, sweet clover, teasel, tree frog, vetch, whippoorwill. Leave a comment

July 2 – 8, 2018 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 3, 2018, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged bats, beebalm, blackeyed susan, butterfly milkweed, compassplant, coreopsis, culver's root, elderberry, gray coneflower, Kansas dogwood, lead plant, osage orange, prairie clover, slender mountain mint, sumac, Sycamore. Leave a comment

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Ken Lassman has been keeping this almanac for over a decade, He invites you to share your observations and photos in the comments section. You can find his book Wild Douglas County at The Raven Bookstore and The Community Mercantile in Lawrence.

Yellow Flower Moon – August

This year the following explanation of the Osage moon name is not as accurate as most years due to the ongoing drought, which is preventing most plants from blooming at all.

Thoreau noticed how many of the flowers of August and September resemble the beaming sun. So did the Osage Indians of this area, who named the moon for this observation.

“Yellow is very definitely the color of August; even the bluestem seems gold-washed at a distance, especially when blooming. Thought thistles and other flowers are the pastel blue and lavender, the sunflowers and the prairie goldenrods are glowing yellow. Yellow butterflies predominate, and the brilliant yellow goldfinch comes to the ridges to tear at the thistle and to find something in the hear of the sunflower.” -The Osages, p. 109, by John Joseph Mathews

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