Flint Hills monument

Flint Hills monument on I35

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Flint Hills monument

Flint Hills monument on I70 east of Manhattan

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Flint Hills Discovery Center

Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, KS

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Flint Hills Discovery Center

Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, KS

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Flint Hills Discovery Center

Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, KS

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Flint Hills highway cut

Flint Hills highway cut showing the limestone strata with interspersed flint (chert).

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Chase County Courthouse

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, KS

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Chase County Courthouse

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

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Chase County Courthouse

Chase County Courthouse, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

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Cottonwood River

Cottonwood River, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas

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Strong City

Strong City, Kansas

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Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse

Lower Fox Creek schoolhouse, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas

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Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse

Lower Fox Creek schoolhouse, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas

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Lower Fox Creek School

Lower Fox Creek School, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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Pioneer Bluffs

Pioneer Bluffs, Flint Hills, KS

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Flint Hills of Kansas

Flint Hills of Kansas, near Cottonwood Falls

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Prairie sunset

Prairie sunset, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Flint Hills, Kansas

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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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Tallgrass prairie sunset

Sunset in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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Bichet School

Bichet School near Florence, Kansas

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Wheat

Wheat ready to be harvested, Flint Hills, Kansas

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Wheat

Wheat ready for harvest, near Florence, Kansas

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Bichet School

Bichet School, near Florence, Kansas

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Bichet School

Bichet School, near Florence, Kansas

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Prairie acacia

Prairie acacia (Acacia angustissima), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Prairie Acacia

Prairie acacia (Acacia angustissima), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Butterfly weed

Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Fringe-leaf ruellia

Fringe-leaf ruellia, Flint Hills, Kansas

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Ohio Spiderwort

Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Showy evening-primrose

Showy evening-primrose (Oenothera speciosa), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Wild prairie rose

Wild prairie rose (Rosa arkansana), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Purple cone flower

Purple cone flower (Echinacea purpurea), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Sullivant milkweed

Sullivant milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Sullivant milkweed

Sullivant milkweed (Asclepias sullivantii), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Probable M. foedus

According to Dave Ferguson, ""Color pattern looks like M. foedus. However, blue hind tibiae on that species in Kansas would be rare, usually the hind tibiae are red (other colors occur though, and sometimes one leg will be red and other blue). The other options is that she is a very pale M. packardii. They usually have blue hind tibiae in Kansas, but also usually a much stronger dark pattern. The only way to be certain with a questionable one is to have a male in hand, and to look at the aedeagus."

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper nymph (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-sriped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Two-striped grasshopper

Two-striped grasshopper (Melanoplus bivittatus), Flint Hills, Kansas - nymph (above), adult (below)

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Widow skimmer (female)

Widow skimmer female (Libellula luctuosa), Flint Hills, Kansas

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Long-billed Curlew

Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)

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Upland Sandpiper

Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)

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