Crotalaria pumila or Rattle Box is a sweet little legume found out in the grassland and up slope as well. The family Leguminosae may be Fabaceae now or maybe it is the other way around, but one thing is for sure: at night Kangaroo Rats use the pods of rattle box to shake out rhythms as they swirl beautiful patterns in dust with their long tails . It’s true.
The name Drosophila melanogaster is fun to say in dramatic style… and I do. At our place we don’t remember this many fruit flies...
I like the title Wild Lettuce for this show. It seems incongruous, as in wild and lettuce don’t seem to go together. But where...
Petey gets so excited about the Apache Pine. What’s up with that? Pinus englemannii is it’s northern most range in southeastern Arizona. Though at...
