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July 27 – August 2 Kaw Valley Almanac

This entry was posted on July 26, 2015, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged compassplant, corn, cricket, culver's root, Douglas County Fair, dragonfly, gayfeather, gray coneflower, green lacewing, hedge parsley, Illinois bundleflower, ironweed, katydid, lady beetle, lightning bug, perennial sunflower, predator mite, purple prairie flower, slender mountain mint, soybeans, spider, spider mite, sticktite, stink bug, tallgrass, treefrog, wasp. Leave a comment

July 20 – 26, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 19, 2015, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged algae, armadillo, beebalm, blackeyed susan, compassplant, cottonwood fluff, culver's root, dragonfly, duckweed, farmer's market, frogs, gayfeather, Illinois bundleflower, ironweed, katydid, purple prairie clover, queen anne's lace, rattlesnake master, snapping turtle, spider, tallgrass seedhead, treefrog, water snake. Leave a comment

July 13 – 19, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 12, 2015, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beebalm, Canadian musk thistle, compassplant, cottonwood, crown vetch, culver's root, daisy fleabane, eastern gamagrass, foxtail, gray coneflower, milkweed, queen anne's lace, rattlesnakemaster, sideoats grama, sumac, teasel. Leave a comment

July 6 – 12, 2015 Kaw Valley Almanac

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This entry was posted on July 5, 2015, in July, Kansas, nature observation, phenology, Prairie and tagged beebalm, black walnuts, chiggers, gooseberry, hay cutting, lightning bug, mushroom, orb weaver spider, osage orange, sumac, Sycamore, ticks, wheat harvest, wild raspberry. 2 Comments

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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

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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