![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2763/jpeg/18t.jpg) Camouflaged stink(?) bug on a brown seed head of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 2, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/686/jpeg/12t.jpg) Stink bug nymph (Thyanta) on a dry receptacle of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Heterotheca, Chrysopis) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/887/jpeg/18t.jpg) Closed flower and a seed head of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Heterotheca, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/680/jpeg/01t.jpg) Stink bug nymph (Euschistus) on a seed head of frostweed in Lick Creek Park, on Iron Bridge Trail. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3413/jpeg/07t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of a dry plant of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3258/jpeg/03t.jpg) Seed heads of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/10t.jpg) Grasshopper on a dry stalk of soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 24, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/02t.jpg) Red and black striped caterpillar on soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3413/jpeg/21t.jpg) Fluffy seed heads of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/890/jpeg/03t.jpg) Green lynx spider on soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 12, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/02t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) flower and receptacle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/03t.jpg) Green lynx spider on soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/862/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) flower in dew on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3258/jpeg/07t.jpg) Seeds of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 10, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/08t.jpg) Green lynx spider on soft golden aster eating a brown spider in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1074/jpeg/05t.jpg) Receptacles of soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 30, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3180/jpeg/15t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 22, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1074/jpeg/06t.jpg) Receptacles of soft golden aster with achene in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 30, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3252/jpeg/30t.jpg) Seed head of a plant of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 29, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1474/jpeg/04t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1232/jpeg/03t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2555/jpeg/21t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 21, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/05t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 13, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2561/jpeg/02t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 25, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3020/jpeg/12t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) with a spider in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 9, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1048/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) and soft golden aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 3, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/658/jpeg/06t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) with a stilt bug (Jalysus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 13, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1074/jpeg/02t.jpg) Seeds of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Heterotheca, Chrysopis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 30, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/686/jpeg/10t.jpg) Receptacle, achene and bracts of soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/873/jpeg/23t.jpg) Stink bug on a seed head near Zapliusye in Pskov Region south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2485/jpeg/28t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of a plant of aster family in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 24, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1452/jpeg/07t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Central Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1452/jpeg/09t.jpg) Back lit soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa, Chrysopis) in Central Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2993/jpeg/11t.jpg) Praying mantis on soft aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 28, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/895/jpeg/01t.jpg) Green lynx spider on a yellow flower of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 17, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/798/jpeg/09t.jpg) Stink bug nymph (Acrosternum hilare) on a backpack on Chinquapin Trail in Huntsville State Park. Texas, October 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2700/jpeg/19t.jpg) Flower head of a plant of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3387/jpeg/06t.jpg) Seed heads of a plant with narrow leaves of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 17, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/886/jpeg/06t.jpg) Cicada molting out of its nymph shell in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 3, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/862/jpeg/09t.jpg) Green bug nymph on a receptacle of false dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/652/jpeg/05t.jpg) Seed head of Texas dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, June 15, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1061/jpeg/15t.jpg) Seed head of wild carrot (Daucus pusillus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 22, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/650/jpeg/21t.jpg) Dandelion seed head near Deer Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 8, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1074/jpeg/07t.jpg) Dry seed head of black eyed susan in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 30, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3211/jpeg/04t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of cattails (Typha) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 17, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/783/jpeg/12t.jpg) Opening spherical seed head of a thistle in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 30, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3005/jpeg/18t.jpg) Seed head of tickseed sunflower (Bidens) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3180/jpeg/05t.jpg) Seed head of cattails (typha) on a pipeline right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 22, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2261/jpeg/04t.jpg) Seed head of Antelope horns milkweed (Asclepias viridis) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 17, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3372/jpeg/26t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 27, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3476/jpeg/20t.jpg) Seed head of common dandelion (Taraxanum officinale) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2555/jpeg/18t.jpg) Seed head of false dandelion (Pyrrhopappus carolinianus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 21, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1061/jpeg/16t.jpg) Umbrella like seed head of wild carrot (Daucus pusillus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 22, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1061/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close up of a seed head of wild carrot (Daucus pusillus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 22, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3500/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 28, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3183/jpeg/14t.jpg) Dry seed head of basket flower (Centaurea americana) on a sewage line right of way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 27, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1467/jpeg/13t.jpg) Seed head of Texas dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 26, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1464/jpeg/18t.jpg) Seed head of Texas dandelion in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 22, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/871/jpeg/09t.jpg) Mature seed head of common dandelion (Taraxanum officinale) showing parasol-like pappus attached to seed-bearing achenes in Sosnovka Park in Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 24, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2014/1469/jpeg/06t.jpg) Soft golden aster (Bradburia pilosa) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, July 31, 2014
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3402/jpeg/17t.jpg) Immature seed head of yellow thistle (Bull thistle, Cirsium horridulum) on sewage line right-of-way in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 2, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/891/jpeg/06t.jpg) Dry globular seed head in TAMU Horticultural Gardens in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, September 19, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/747/jpeg/09t.jpg) Rice stink bug nymph (Oebalus pugnax) on bluestem grass in McKinney Falls State Park near Austin. Texas, May 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3194/jpeg/05t.jpg) Green lynx spider of a seed head of an aster on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, July 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1109/jpeg/12t.jpg) Corn beetle eating yellow aster in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/682/jpeg/11t.jpg) Inflorescence of white aster on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 29, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2992/jpeg/21t.jpg) Seed head of firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) near the creek in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2992/jpeg/22t.jpg) Globular seed head of firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) near the creek in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/676/jpeg/18t.jpg) Yellow flower of aster family on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2896/jpeg/07t.jpg) Seed head of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 31, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2741/jpeg/09t.jpg) Seed head of firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) near the creek under power lines in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 21, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/714/jpeg/24t.jpg) Seed head of sow thistle (Sonchus) with fluffy pappus attached to seed-bearing achenes in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, February 22, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/706/jpeg/10t.jpg) Seed head of sow thistle (Sonchus) with fluffy pappus attached to seed-bearing achenes in TAMU Holistic Garden in Texas A and M University. College Station, Texas, January 31, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2896/jpeg/11t.jpg) Fluffy seed head of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 31, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2997/jpeg/12t.jpg) Stink bug on rough barnyard grass (wild millet, Echinochloa muricata) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 1, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/679/jpeg/24t.jpg) Spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) on a yellow flower of aster family in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3634/jpeg/03t.jpg) Blooming aster (Symphyotrichum) when exposed to regular daylight as well as when illuminated by a 365 nm ultraviolet (UV-A) blacklight from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 22, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/857/jpeg/10t.jpg) Black swallowtail caterpillar in dew showing its osmeterium (orange horns, forked, eversible organ behind the head) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/649/jpeg/01t.jpg) Katydid nymph in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 31, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/937/jpeg/10t.jpg) Nymph of a bug on oak leaf in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1705/jpeg/15t.jpg) Soft inflorescence (seed head) of common reed grass (Phragmites australis) on Green Circles (center-pivot irrigation) in Irkhaya (Irkaya) Farms. Qatar, December 18, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2758/jpeg/29t.jpg) Katydid nymph on camphorweed in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 23, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3050/jpeg/05t.jpg) Golden-pored bolete mushrooms (Aureoboletus auriporus(?)) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 26, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1114/jpeg/22t.jpg) Dry seed heads of Black eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) in dew from Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 30, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3634/jpeg/01t.jpg) Flowers of roadside aster (Aster exilis) from a lawn of apartments at George Bush Drive. College Station, Texas, October 21, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1044/jpeg/06t.jpg) Winecup flower with katydid nymph in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 18, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2477/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spiderwort (Tradescantia) with a katydid nymph in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/744/jpeg/15t.jpg) Katydid nymph on blue spiderwort (tradescantia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 7, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3632/jpeg/07t.jpg) Golden reishi mushroom (Ganoderma curtisii) in ultraviolet light in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 16, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/879/jpeg/16t.jpg) Seed head of avens (Geum rivale, Russian name Gravilat) in the park. Oranienbaum (Lomonosov), a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/871/jpeg/04t.jpg) Seed head of wood avens (Colewort, Geum urbanum, Russian name Gravilat) in Sosnovka Park in Saint Petersburg. Russia, June 24, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2997/jpeg/33t.jpg) Nymph of katidid on water primrose (Ludwigia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 1, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3634/jpeg/05t.jpg) Golden reishi mushroom (Ganoderma curtisii) near a stump in ultraviolet light in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3050/jpeg/06t.jpg) Golden-pored bolete mushrooms (Aureoboletus auriporus(?)) with a cross section in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 26, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3262/jpeg/13t.jpg) Stylopized great golden digger wasp (Eupathocera westwoodi) collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1109/jpeg/17t.jpg) Seed pods of woolly croton (hogwort, Croton capitatus) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 9, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/820/jpeg/19t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) on sewer line right of way in Lick Creek Park. At the first hard freeze, even though the plant has gone to seed and looks dead, the roots are still active. The sap freezes, splits open the stem and forms these "frost-flowers". College Station, Texas, January 9, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1110/jpeg/21t.jpg) Dry seed heads of Button snakeroot (yuccaleaf snakeroot, Eryngium yuccifolium) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/625/jpeg/26t.jpg) Flower of false garlic with a nymph of katydid in Lick Creek Park, on Post Oak Trail. College Station, Texas, March 31, 2008
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