Some plant life and other organisms…

Bristlecone pine cones, Pinus laeva, on the Rainbow Point loop trail, Bryce Canyon NP

Bristlecone pine cones, Pinus laeva, on the Rainbow Point loop trail, Bryce Canyon NP

 

Part of a grove of clonal Aspen, Populus tremuloides, above the Wildcat Ranger Station. One massive male clonal colony in Utah is named Pando and is estimated to have grown continuously with replacement shoots arising from the same clone for almost 80,000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

Part of a grove of clonal Aspen, Populus tremuloides, above the Wildcat Ranger Station. One massive male clonal colony in Utah is named Pando and is estimated to have grown continuously with replacement shoots arising from the same clone for almost 80,000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

 

Scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata

Scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata

Wasatch Blue Penstemon, Penstemon  cyananthus

Wasatch Blue Penstemon, Penstemon cyananthus

 

Golden mantled ground squirrel  Callospermophilus lateralis at the WIldcat Ranger station

Golden mantled ground squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis at the Wildcat Ranger station

 

Broad-tailed hummingbird male  (Selasphorus platycercus) coming for nectar at feeder, Wildcat Ranger Station

Broad-tailed hummingbird male (Selasphorus platycercus) coming for nectar at feeder, Wildcat Ranger Station

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) female with young, Bryce Canyon NP

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) female with young, Bryce Canyon NP

 

Field sketch, Pseudohemihyalea ambigua, a pink-bodied Arctiid moth, Tropic, UT

Field sketch, Pseudohemihyalea ambigua, a pink-bodied Arctiid moth, Tropic, UT

Drasteria, possibly mirifica, a colorful Noctuid moth; Henderson Canyon

Drasteria, possibly D. mirifica, a colorful Noctuid moth; Henderson Canyon

The ten lined June beetle, Polyphylla decemlineata.

The ten lined June beetle, Polyphylla decemlineata.

 

A banded grasshopper, Torrey, UT

A banded grasshopper, Torrey, UT