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Comment on How to find edible wild plants by goa flowers

goa flowers — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:15:14 +0000

Thank you for sharing all the details of your wild plants! I especially like the plant listings w/ details on the plants. I’m striving to someday catalog and map my plants and you guys are an inspiration

Comment on Observing Giant Urban Slugs by Scott Hughes

Scott Hughes — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:16:13 +0000

Aleta, I have collected two live specimens for you this past night from the Windsor, Ontario area – please contact me via my email ASAP.

Comment on Observing Giant Urban Slugs by Plunt

Plunt — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:04:20 +0000

I’ve grown up in east scarborough (Port union area) for the past 25 years and I can say that I have seen these slugs in my backyard my whole life. A lot of my friends that grew up in the same neighborhood had only ever seen them at my house, I speculate that it has to do with the fact that I live closer to the lake than most of the people I know. Just thought I’d share.

Comment on How to take a trip by Allan Devonshire

Allan Devonshire — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:34:15 +0000

Hola. I acknowledged new this day. Keep it up…

Comment on Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario! by Naomi Langlois-Anderson

Naomi Langlois-Anderson — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:17:47 +0000

Hello Aleta – I just found this site with the link you sent about the otter pictures! Anyway, I wanted to tell you that I came across some climbing poison ivy in Maxville,in 2000 while conducting municipal drain assessments for fish habitat classifications. I was down a farm tractor path that goes south from county road 22 to check a tributary of the West Scotch River. The vine was climbing approximately 20 feet up a tree, which if I recall correctly was a sugar maple. I have a photo somewhere, if i can locate it i will send to you.

Comment on Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario! by Alec

Alec — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:56:05 +0000

Look in the cache river here in Arkansas. Some are about a foot around. Also watch out for the ” devil’s walking stick” . It has thorns in excess of one foot long. Stepped on a twig from one. Ouch!

Comment on Observing Giant Urban Slugs by The Big Slugs Are Here | You Grow Girl

The Big Slugs Are Here | You Grow Girl — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:30:54 +0000

[...] that they could have come from British Columbia. There is a scientist in Toronto who is currently tracking their occurrence, and while it looks like the Leopard Slug hasn’t really reached my part of town, it will soon [...]

Comment on Observing Giant Urban Slugs by Scott Hughes

Scott Hughes — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:12:00 +0000

Interesting site and data collection. I too have photo documented Limax maximus down in the Windsor, Ontario area this past summer.

Comment on Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario! by admin

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:31:56 +0000

Thanks, Bev! We’ll have to go out there to photograph and waypoint it for the database. We’d appreciate anyone elses’ sightings as well…

Comment on Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario! by bev wigney

bev wigney — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:34:15 +0000

Aleta – Several years ago, Don and I found a huge Poison Ivy vine near the end of one of the boardwalks on the Tallow Rock Bay trail at Charleston Lake. It was incredibly robust and climbed far up a tree right next to the boardwalk. It’s on the right – I believe it’s at the end of the second boardwalk, but perhaps the first (there are two long ones there).