Show and Tell 08/01/13

• Flower fly

• Fern
• part of fern
• spore capsules
• ferns reproduce using spores

• House centipede

• Feathers

 

2 mockingbird feathers, flicker yellow shafted woodpecker feather, and pigeon feather

• Galls
• cynipid wasp
• gall forming wasp

• Leeches
• all leeches lay eggs

• Opossum
• more teeth than any other mammal
• around 50 teeth

• Ornamental succulent

• Chestnut burrs

• Magnolia seed pods
• bright red seeds attract birds
• Birds eat the seeds, goes through the digestive system.  The seeds are now fertilized and ready to plant.