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© Frank H. Jump
Poconos
Pocono Insects & Butterflies
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Red Spotted Purple © Frank H. Jump
Grasshopper & Coccinellidae © Frank H. Jump
- A Visual Life List of Sightings in Maple Glen, PA – Red Spotted Purple
- Grasshoppers – Wikipedia
- Ladybugs – Coccinellidae – Wikipedia
Midland Painted Turtle in the Trout Lilies & Pond – Pocono Springs – Newfoundland, PA
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
I almost ran this guy over with my RV and trailer yesterday. I managed to swerve and go safely over him. By the time I stopped the rig and ran back to see him, he had run over to the side. I told him to stay put while I went home and got my camera. Ten minutes later, he was still there and ready for a photo shoot.
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission - CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE
Autumn Pocono Toadstool – Paddenstoel
Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump
Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump
Sometimes the iPhone camera surprises me.
The terms “Mushroom” and “Toadstool” go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.
The term “toadstool” was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.
The word has apparent analogies in Dutch padde(n)stoel (toad-stool/chair, mushroom) and German Krötenschwamm (toad-fungus, alt. word for panther cap). Others have proposed a connection with German “Todesstuhl” (lit. “death’s chair”). Since Tod is a direct cognate to death, in that case it would be a German borrowing. – Wikipedia
A Memorial Day Weekend Cycle Through the Poconos
On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump
On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump
On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump
On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump
A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump
On Rte 435 near Moscow. - © Frank H. Jump
On Rte 435 near Moscow. - © Frank H. Jump
Old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump
Enzo in front of old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump
Old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump
