Spring Fling Bug Series LbNA #31243
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 24, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Grand Prairie |
| County: | Dallas |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Planted by: | Wag Time  |
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| Found by: | Elwood Fan |
| Last found: | Oct 5, 2015 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 6, 2015 |
NOTE: All four boxes are alive and well following the north Texas rains.
What is spring or summer in Texas without your fair share of bugs? An unlikely event is what that is! Bugs here are a part of life, but this little series is dedicated to the ones we like…the happy ones that make us smile.
Mike Lewis Park is in far-north Grand Prairie on Carrier Parkway. The park was recently expanded and now includes a nice entrance from Roy Orr Blvd. Enter the park from Roy Orr Blvd. and park in the lot between the red-roofed picnic pavilions and the green maintenance building. Walk back toward the maintenance building to a paved trail on the south side of the parking lot (opposite side of the parking lot from the pavilions and maintenance building).
1) Bumble Bee
Head down the trail, counting lamp posts as you go. Just before the seventh lamp post, find a fallen log off the trail on the left. The box is behind and slightly under the fallen log about a foot or two from the left end.
2) Dragonfly
Continue down the trail and take the fork to the right. Just before you get back to the road (2 lamp posts from the road), look for a large rock on the right at the edge of the water next to a hardwood in front of a tree shedding its skin. To the left of the shedding tree is a big pile of bark. The box is under the bark close to the base of the tree.
3) Lady Bug
Follow the trail across the road, curving behind the picnic pavilion. Continue to the left when the trail forks, until you arrive at a triangular “island” with a lamp post and trail map sign. Stay to the left and take just a few steps until you reach the back border of plant beds on either side of the trail. Counting the concrete joint at that spot, walk to the sixth joint and stop. Look into the brush to the right for a large concrete slab sitting at an angle next to a skinny hardwood tree. The box is at the base of the hardwood on its left side, under a piece of wood.
4) Butterfly
Continue down the path, crossing under the power lines, to the “Trail Turn Out #5” sign near a sheltered bench and stop. Look into the tree line to the left for a large single hardwood. Walk through the brush to it. Once at that tree, look to the left for a double-trunk hardwood. The box is at the base of the tree in the front. Watch out for briars.
Note: Wear shoes that can get muddy. This is a low-lying area and can get quite muddy off the trails.
What is spring or summer in Texas without your fair share of bugs? An unlikely event is what that is! Bugs here are a part of life, but this little series is dedicated to the ones we like…the happy ones that make us smile.
Mike Lewis Park is in far-north Grand Prairie on Carrier Parkway. The park was recently expanded and now includes a nice entrance from Roy Orr Blvd. Enter the park from Roy Orr Blvd. and park in the lot between the red-roofed picnic pavilions and the green maintenance building. Walk back toward the maintenance building to a paved trail on the south side of the parking lot (opposite side of the parking lot from the pavilions and maintenance building).
1) Bumble Bee
Head down the trail, counting lamp posts as you go. Just before the seventh lamp post, find a fallen log off the trail on the left. The box is behind and slightly under the fallen log about a foot or two from the left end.
2) Dragonfly
Continue down the trail and take the fork to the right. Just before you get back to the road (2 lamp posts from the road), look for a large rock on the right at the edge of the water next to a hardwood in front of a tree shedding its skin. To the left of the shedding tree is a big pile of bark. The box is under the bark close to the base of the tree.
3) Lady Bug
Follow the trail across the road, curving behind the picnic pavilion. Continue to the left when the trail forks, until you arrive at a triangular “island” with a lamp post and trail map sign. Stay to the left and take just a few steps until you reach the back border of plant beds on either side of the trail. Counting the concrete joint at that spot, walk to the sixth joint and stop. Look into the brush to the right for a large concrete slab sitting at an angle next to a skinny hardwood tree. The box is at the base of the hardwood on its left side, under a piece of wood.
4) Butterfly
Continue down the path, crossing under the power lines, to the “Trail Turn Out #5” sign near a sheltered bench and stop. Look into the tree line to the left for a large single hardwood. Walk through the brush to it. Once at that tree, look to the left for a double-trunk hardwood. The box is at the base of the tree in the front. Watch out for briars.
Note: Wear shoes that can get muddy. This is a low-lying area and can get quite muddy off the trails.