Heard calling at ~0300 hrs (not seen, too dark).
Label data:
USA: ILLINOIS: Will Co.
Braidwood Dunes & Savanna
1.5 km SE Braidwood on IL-113
sand prairie on S side of prsv
41.249525°N, 88.200725°W
18.viii.2012, S.W. Heads
Sample # 1045
Specimen # BRD10137
Illinois Natural History Survey
Pale form female
Label data:
USA: ILLINOIS: Will Co.
Braidwood Dunes & Savanna
1.5 km SE Braidwood on IL-113
sand prairie on S side of prsv
41.249525°N, 88.200725°W
18.viii.2012, S.W. Heads
Sample # 1045
Specimen # BRD10138
Illinois Natural History Survey
Label data:
USA: ILLINOIS: Will Co.
Braidwood Dunes & Savanna
1.5 km SE Braidwood on IL-113
sand prairie on S side of prsv
41.249525°N, 88.200725°W
18.viii.2012, S.W. Heads
Sample # 1045
Specimen # BRD10140
Illinois Natural History Survey
Found among leaf litter along the wooded banks of McCullough Creek at Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, Illinois.
Male, found at night in a prairie remnant nr Wade Creek, Nachusa Grasslands.
Female found on UIUC Research Park feeding on gravid female differential grasshopper. The mantis was kept in the laboratory and produced an ootheca on 18 October 2012.
On sidewalk near Evers Building on the research park at the University of Illinois.
Growing on an elm stump.
A flea beetle, Luperaltica nigripalpis on what looks like some sort of Heliopsis.
At side of trail through wooded hillside. As timber rattlesnakes are threatened in IL, I have set the geoprivacy to "obscured" in order to protect the precise location.
A mature female found on a grassy man-made earthen bank on W side of Evers Building, UIUC research park.
Male found in grassy, "no-mow" zone on the research park at UIUC.
Found amidst grass in a "no-mow" zone on the research park at UIUC.
A female Conocephalus strictus found on tall herbaceous vegetation in a prairie remnant at Nachusa Grasslands, nr Franklin Grove, IL.
Male black-legged meadow katydid (Orchelimum nigripes) found on tall forbs at Meadowbrook Park prairie restoration.
Polites peckius (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) or "Peck's skipper", nectaring from the flower head of a pasture thistle (Cirsium discolor) at Meadowbrook Park prairie restoration, Urbana, IL.
Poor quality cell phone photographs of a juvenile Dekay's brownsnake found along a rough trail through a fen.
On the prairie at Nachusa Grasslands.
Female laying eggs amongst low herbaceous vegetation near Bivin's Pond, Nachusa Grasslands.
Found indoors. This was the only shot I managed to get of this roach before it ran away; the focus is somewhat soft but it's clearly P. australasiae.
Crossing road. Appeared to be a male.
Not the best photographs I'm afraid.
This male is tending a nest with two chicks.
