Dogwood Park Observation Essay

In the Batewood Park environment, I noticed on arrival that there were few shrubberies or flowers, but there was an abundance of a variety trees. There was a playground, a picnic, table, basketball court, and other things added from humans, which causes the park environment overall to be different than that of a forest that is not impacted specifically from humans. I sat in the grass near the picnic tables and an oak tree, close enough to where I could observe ants under the picnic tables, bees pollinating, and a leaf that had a hole from where it had been eaten. I moved from this spot to observe a dogwood tree and how it differed from the oak during my observation process. There were a variety of trees in the park from their different sizes, shapes, and coloration of leaves. I noticed the leaves had not quite yet turned colors or started falling off the branches noticeably. Concluding, it is late summer and not quite fall. This can be determined through the fact that the leaves are not in full coloration. The seasons are beginning to change. The two trees I focused on observing were the dogwood tree and the oak tree, which are distinctly different in their physical appearance. The …show more content…
The ants were carrying crumbs from where people had eaten at the picnic table back to wherever their ant hole was. The hole was nowhere in sight from where I was observing. The ants can be considered heterotrophic, because they obtain their carbon from other resources, instead of producing it. I could not obtain the size of the ant, but I found out that it is approximately 7 millimeters. I was astonished how such a tiny organisms could carry such a large piece of a crumb knowing it weighed more than the ant itself. I finally witnessed why these are considered “worker” ants because of all the hard work they do to provide for and protect their