Monthly archive for August 2013

Yucca – Yucca is a spiky bush that lives in the hot and dry plains of Texas and Colorado. These pretty white flowers can be put into a salad, or eaten right off the stalk. I eat them every spring and cows and horses do too. The

Mississippi Kite – These birds are very territorial. They will dive bomb you if you walk under their tree when they have young chicks. One time on a hunting trip my Dad and I walked under a tree and got dived on by the kite that lived

Rattlesnake – Prairie rattlesnakes are a venomous pit viper snake. They are pit vipers because they have a heat sensing organ between their eye and nostril. By sensing heat they find and strike at their prey – which is primarily mice and rats and baby rabbits. Prairie

Monarch butterfly – This is what a Monarch chrysalis turns into, a big beautiful orange and black butterfly. We raised some monarch caterpillars this year and they make a pretty green chrysalis that has golden specks in it. After they hatch, their wings are all folded up