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	<title>Field Guide - Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</title>
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		<title>Leech Extended</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 14:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A message from a limnologist helped us identify the leech. It is a Placobdella parasitica. We are always grateful for the assistance we get from knowledgeable people. This image shows it as it extended to move across the bottom of the bowl. It moved so quickly that we did not get an image of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annelid Embellished: Leech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 23:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beauty is found in the most unusual places. Today we found it in a leech &#8211; one of the annelids along with earth worms. Annelids are segmented invertebrates. Two friends were with us enjoying a sand prairie when one of them spotted a painted turtle on a ridge headed away from the ponds. She must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day in the (New) Field</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an open house and tour at the new Hamilton and Tapken Prairie Preserve yesterday. We attended to learn more about the special niches on this ancient sand hill prairie in northeast Iowa near Onslow. Also to see old friends &#8211; both human and flora. Ray Hamilton of Maquoketa and Phyllis Tapken of Monticello [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleft Phlox</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 02:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring we were pleased to see thousands of Cleft or Sand Phlox (Phlox bifida) at two lovely preserves. The variety of colors that we saw inspired this columnar image were a gift to the eye. Most were shades of lavender but the clumps of white and pink blossoms made interesting accents. The white ones did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty As A &#8216;Possum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda &#38; Robert Scarth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia Opossums (Didelphis virginiana) are not usually regarded as pretty. However the one we met this morning comes close. We had set the humane trap in hopes of catching the groundhog who moved under the porch last week. One had been evicted earlier this spring and this one was smaller and more hoary in color, so we knew [...]]]></description>
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