7/8/2024
Time – 5:30 PM
Weather: 91°F, 0% precipitation, 5mph winds, UV 3, visibility 20 miles, 47% humidity (68°F dew point), AQI 38, partly cloudy.
Today I noticed that everything seemed a lot more dried up or less satiated than last visit. Some of the fungi that I have been checking up on each week were hard to the touch, whereas last week they were soft and you were able to press down into the fungi. I also noticed that there was a lot of aquatic wildlife active, including fish, turtles, and even a water snake, however a lot of the land animals, with the exception to birds, were nowhere to be seen. I also saw less bugs out flying around and sitting on leaves. The majority of the bugs I saw tended to be under logs and leaves where it was dark and damp, or inside dead trees. I did also check back up on the funnel weaver spider web, and noticed that there were no longer termites coming in and out of that specific hole. Maybe the spider ate them all, or they decided to move homes? It was definately interesting to see how the environment around me changed when it was introduced to hot, dry weather, especially right after a wave of rain storms.