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 VISITED BIG BOG RECREATION AREA NEAR WASKISS, MN.  THERE IS A 1 MILE LONG BOARDWALK INTO THE BIG BOG.  THE BOG CONTAINS RARE PLANTS AND FLOWERS THAT ARE UNIQUE TO BOGS.  MOST BLOOM IN JUNE AND THEREFORE WE MISSED THE BEST OF THE BOG,.  WAS STILL INTERESTING AND MOSTLY BUG FREE THIS TIME OF YEAR.   WE WILL RETURN SOME JUNE. 

 

 Black Spruce and Alder bushes were the dominate plants as one enters the 1 mile Big Bog boardwalk.  The beginning is the driest portion of the bog.

 

 Along the one mile Big Bog boardwalk.  Insects were not a problem this late in the season.

 

 Pitcher Plant "flowers".

 

 Pitcher Plant modified Leaves are unique in that the are filled with a plant made digestive juice that traps insect as a food source.   Found in the wetter parts of the bog.  A meat eating plant.

 

 About 1 mile into the bog the bog has changed to wetter and fewer trees.

 St. John's Wort.

 Female Baltimore Oriole on rose.

 Young Killdeer.

 Wild Turk's Cap Lilly.  Found in Moist prairies and unmowed prairie ditches.

 Male Blue Dasher dragonfly.

 Female Pondhawk dragonfly.

 Large, interesting spider in one of our pails.

 

Two species of fishing spiders.  The first one was 3.5-4 inches across and the second was some what smaller.

 Tiger Swallowtail on Milkweed.

 

 Dickcissel down our grassy-sided driveway.

 About a decade ago we found an English Mulberry seedling and planted it on our lawn.  That once tiny tree now provides Mulberries for over a dozen bird species, squirrels, racoons, and who knows what else.  Mulberries start out green, then turn red, and when ripe are dark purple.  Best of all they do not all ripen at the same time.  We find the Mulberries quite bitter, but the wildlife loves them.