Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

I am back at Duke for a week of problem solving. This trip I am staying at the Washington Duke Hotel - next to the golf course. Scott Herman-Giddens, Maddy Spach and I used to run around the golf course along a trail now called the Al Buehler trail. Al, the track coach from 1955 until 2000? used to remind us that the Duke track was for serious runners and we often alternated between the track and the trail around the golf course. While my purpose of walking along the trail was to look for spiders, I found a rather colorful Assasin bug, Pselliopus barberi. This simply added to the great memories of running with Maddy and Scott Herman-Giddens.

Here is the flight path of SQ22 from Singapore to Newark - via Google Earth

and my adventure from Newark to RDU to Charleston to Nashville

Here was my first encounter with this orange insect. It appeared to have a flexible proboscis for doing something - harvesting or biting. What an interesting find

Here, you notice that the proboscis is retracted.

Another view

and another view

A small web of what I think is Neoscona

A closer view

and yet another closer look.

Then this rather large caterpillar - with white spots

Another view

Eating something

C. Frank Starmer

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