Not just birding

 I've always had an interest in nature. Not just birds but wildflowers, insects, reptiles and mammals. A phone app I have been using for over a year is called Seek. You can take a picture of any plant, insects, mammals, fish, reptiles, spiders and more and it will usually identify it! I have used it mostly on insects, plants and wildflowers. One insect I have always wondered about are those little hairy black and orange caterpillars you see all over the place in the fall. We always referred to them as Wooly Bear caterpillar. The length of the orange section is determined on how well it grew over the summer months. 

I used Seek to discover that they become an Isabella Tiger Moth.

I spotted this other moth on a wall and thought is was interesting and with the help of Seek I learned it was called an October Thorn Moth!

It was not that many years ago I had to spend hours going through insect books trying to determine what species I had seen! This is so much easier that I tend to look up more things than in the past!