Evergreen Natural History Database

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7:23 minutes (4.13 MB)An enhanced podcast which is mostly about kingfishers (and includes great photos). The last section of the podcast discusses how rough-winged swallows use old kingfisher nest tunnels.

Key to Carabidae genera of The Evergreen State College campus:

Text for key taken from Lindroth (1961-1969). All micrographs taken by the author; line drawings with initials M.D. drawn by the author. Line drawings without initials taken from Lindroth 1961-1969. The text used in the genus and species accounts taken from Lindroth (1961-1969) and Kavanaugh (1992).

Family Overview

Species list of Coccinellidae known from The Evergreen State College campus

A 2007 NWACC Concept Grant Project

We enter from Canary Reed road ditch, through Spiraea douglasii thicket to an interior grassy raised area of Malus fusca [Oregon crab apple] w/ good fruit set. Counted 15+ mature trees, 2 to 4 year old trees about 6 feet apart in the grassy area - heavily browsed. Fruit consumed closer to forest (evergreen) edge, less consumed out by the road. Did species floristic gradient.

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Jack Longino, one of the field biologists on Evergreen's faculty, talks about Formica obscuripes and the big thatched mounds that colonies of these ants make around campus out of twigs and pine needles. [Evergreen Natural History Podcast #3, April 9, 2008]