{"id":24578,"date":"2025-07-13T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24578"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:15:34","slug":"rachel-carson-conservation-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24578","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Carson Conservation Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; clear:both;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_24580\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024826.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24580\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024826-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24580\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Pipe (<em>Monotropa uniflora<\/em>)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24587\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024859.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24587\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024859-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24587\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotted Lanternfly (<em>Lycorma delicatula<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_24588\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024864.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24588\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_20250713_024864-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24588\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">indigo bunting (<em>Passerina cyanea<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>We went to the Rachel Carson Conservation Park today and had a fairly hot and humid walk through the woods. We heard quite a few birds in the woods but saw almost none. We did see these Indian pipe (<em>Monotropa uniflora<\/em>), also known as ghost plant or ghost pipe. These are parasitic, non-photosynthesizing plants, getting their energy from Russulaceae family of fungi, which in turn get their energy from the roots of photosynthesizing plants. We also saw chanterelle mushrooms (<em>Cantharellus<\/em> species) and downy rattlesnake plantain (<em>Goodyera pubescens<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of our walk we were in the meadows nearer the parking area and I got some photos of the dreaded spotted lanternfly (<em>Lycorma delicatula<\/em>) in its final nymphal instar stage. There were also indigo buntings (<em>Passerina cyanea<\/em>) singing all around and I finally found one that I could just see at the top of a tree and got a few photos of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Rachel Carson Conservation Park today and had a fairly hot and humid walk through the woods. We heard quite a few birds in the woods but saw almost none. We did see these Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), also known as ghost plant or ghost pipe. These are parasitic, non-photosynthesizing plants, getting &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[3665,3741,310,3740,3181,3748,3747,3743,3742,3745,3744,3184,3183,3746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24591,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions\/24591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}