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Trough Cleaning Day(s)! Yesterday started the task of trough cleaning and servicing for our livestock tanks. The cattle have mooved to their large and lush marsh pasture, so no one was there to pester me or opinionate about my…
Wildlife Wednesday Hornworm In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday, we will discuss the situation going on in the photo that I took and shared for Mystery Monday. What you see here is a hornworm or sphinx moth caterpillar that has…
Meet Homalodisca Vitripennis, the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday I’d like to introduce Homalodisca Vitripennis, the glassy-winged sharpshooter. We discovered this “new to us” species on Sunday 8-24-25 on a rainy day in the Agroforestry garden. It…
Today I happened across this tiny beautiful living stained glass window. I felt very fortunate to be allowed to take these pictures. What we have here is a Phyciodes Phaon “phaon crescent.” Meet Phyciodes Phaon “Phaon Crescent.” I got to…
Crowley depends on grants as we are public supported, gate fees are what keeps our doors open. Grants are a huge piece to providing quality programs for our guests! This week we received wonderful “grant news”! We are excited and…
Meet Aedes Albopictus the Asian Tiger Mosquito While waiting for the bus stop with my 2nd grader I noticed a mosquito on the back of my hand. I didn’t feel her, which usually results in an immediate reactive slap, no-…
More Museum Musings with Ms. Morgan! Top Hat “Some of the artifacts in the museum may seem straightforward but an important part of a museum’s work is to investigate historical objects beyond their outward appearance. Sometimes unassuming artifacts have an…
In today’s installment of Wildlife Wednesday we will discuss the delightful little Cabbage White butterfly (Pieris rapae [Linnaeus]) This butterfly is the species featured in yesterday’s facebook post, fluttering in abundance around the fading collard green plants in our agroforestry…
Bananas for Crowley – A year ago at Fruit Fest hosted by Bok Tower Garden we purchased a baby banana tree from Cody Cove Farm. This year we are already getting a pretty impressive and heavy inflorescence (flowering and fruiting…
We are very excited to announce a new volunteer Ms. Morgan Katsarelas, a history and museum enthusiast. She’s going about the huge task of cleaning, researching, and reorganizing our museum collection. She often finds interesting and even rare things. She’s…