FW: [Ecostewards] website for prairie insects

**J*@mobot.org**

URL broken up by a carrot ( > ) -- Here it is in full: 
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/prairieinsects/index.htm#Insect%20fauna%20of%
20tallgrass%20prairies
<http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/prairieinsects/index.htm#Insect%20fauna%20of
%20tallgrass%20prairies>  

 
>Linda and others with interest in this subject: 
> 
>See this: 
>
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/prairieinsects/index.htm#Insect%20fauna%20of%
<http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/prairieinsects/index.htm#Insect%20fauna%20of
%>  
>20tallgrass%20prairies 
> 
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Linda Mann [ l*@volfirst.net <l*@volfirst.net> ] 
>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:11 AM 
>To: prairie@hort.net 
>Subject: Re: burning wetland prairie? 
> 
> 
>Thanks, James, for the reminder about invertebrates. 
> 
>Sunday was the hottest burn in the Indian grass field.  Usually when the 
>forestry crew has had time to burn, it's really been too wet to get the 
>fire to carry through the entire field.  The field is usually flooded by 
>the adjacent  major stream at least once a year, which mats down 
>standing vegetation plus deposits sediment on top of it all, leaving a 
>wet layer of leaf litter, sticks and forbs that doesn't burn.  The 
>Indian grass resists being flattened more than the other vegetation, so 
>tends to burn the hottest. 
> 
>The wintering white throated sparrows are not happy! 
> 
>There is a third wet field on the other side of the large creek that has 
>been used off and on for hay and pasture. It has standing water in a 
>perched water table above the stream.  I've been sowing collected Indian 
>grass seed there for several years, & it is slowly taking hold and 
>crowding out the cool season grasses.  So that will provide a third site 
>for crawly critters. 
> 
>Are streams likely to be barriers for inverts of concern?  At low flow, 
>one is a small limestone spring fed stream about 3 ft wide and a few 
>inches deep; the other is about 20 ft wide and 6 or 8 inches deep.  When 
>flooded the entire bottomland is under water several hundred feet wide 
>and 15 or more feet deep.  The wet field with the perched water table is 
>above the floodplain. 
> 
>I have seen several different types of Skippers in the Indian grass 
>field, but don't know much about them or other invertebrates of concern 
>in this type of site.   Is there a website for prairie or 'glade' 
>invertebrates that might help me do a survey? 
> 
>Thanks, Carl, for the temperature limit on Roundup. 
> 
>I'm not sure about the timing of burns, but would guess late March/early 
>April in Iowa would be similar to late Feb/early March here?  Early 
>daffodils are in full bloom, alder along the stream starting to bloom, 
>first bloodroots on the edge of the woods up and showing color in bud. 
> 
>Thanks again for everybody's help. 
> 
>-- 
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8 
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