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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>Phantom Midge</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This little lady came to our porch light on September 1, 2025. She was about half the size of the average mosquito. It is one of the &#8220;Phantom Midges&#8221; in the family Chaoboridae, and I think she looks like Chaoborus punctipennis, which BugGuide says is &#8220;The common Eastern species&#8221;. And I say &#8220;she&#8221;, because the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oblique Banded Leafroller</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This moth came to our porch light on September 1, 2025. I thought it was probably something I had already photographed, but I took the picture anyway just in case. But, it turns out I hadn&#8217;t already photographed this, at least not as an adult. It is an Oblique-Banded Leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana. Their caterpillars mainly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cut River Bridge Troll</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/15/cut-river-bridge-troll/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[August]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I travel between downstate and home, I spend a fair amount of time driving along US 2, the road that runs along the south border of the Upper Peninsula. And, on US 2 about halfway between Brevort and Epoufett, there is the Cut River Bridge. On August 3. 2025, I was coming back home [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old Mill Hill Road Valley Creek Wall Falls</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/08/old-mill-hill-road-valley-creek-wall-falls/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Downhill from our house, there used to be a copper mill. Specifically a smelter, that received impure copper from the Atlantic Mine. Very little of it remains. It was a first attempt by miners who were still figuring out how to do things, and didn&#8217;t work too well. So, after a few years, they built [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mushrooms in Wood Chip Mulch</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/02/01/mushrooms-in-wood-chip-mulch/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Not Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[June]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fungi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the Michigan Tech campus, between the Chemical Sciences and Electrical Engineering buildings, there is a wooded patch with pine trees, that has been mulched with wood chips. And on June 20, 2025, I noticed that there was a substantial flush of mushrooms coming up right there. There were quite a lot of them, emerging [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mummy Wasp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ichneumons and Braconids]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This little wasp (only about 5 mm long, less than a quarter of an inch) was on our kitchen window on September 1, 2025. I was still getting used to the new camera at this point, so the pictures could have been better, but it will have to do. In addition to its two quite [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Salmon Eggs Slime Mold</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/01/18/salmon-eggs-slime-mold/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[September]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amoebozoa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I found these tiny orange balls growing on a decaying pine stump in the woods on September 20, 2024. In addition to growing exposed on the bare wood, they also were growing nestled down in the moss. These are fruiting bodies of a slime mold. Looking at them a bit closer, we can see that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>White Musk Mallow</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/01/11/white-musk-mallow/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angiosperms (flowering plants)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbaceous plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mallows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malvales]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I found these showy white flowers beside the road on July 24, 2025. The blossoms are quite large, almost large enough to span the palm of my hand. The overall plant wasn&#8217;t that tall, maybe a foot and a half or so. We have sort of seen these before, I posted them previously in December [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Various Rushes</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2026/01/03/various-rushes/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[July]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are a variety of plants that grow in the wet ground at the bottom of the ditch running alongside our road, and I took pictures of a bunch of them on July 24, 2025. These include a family of plants that all look similar, in that they have a roughly cylindrical, hollow main stem, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cherry Fruitworm</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2025/12/28/cherry-fruitworm-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Eisele]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lepidoptera]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was pitting tart cherries on July 26, 2025 when I found this little caterpillar nestled around the cherry pit. This is nothing new, we&#8217;ve seen these before. It&#8217;s a Cherry Fruitworm, Aspila Packardi, which I had previously photographed back in July 2013 and posted in 2014. There has evidently been a name change in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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