One of Nature’s Mysteries to Solve
Hey there! Maybe you’re good at identifying these little fliers. We aren’t, so we admit we had some help… If you want to place a guess, put your answer in our comments, and we’ll check back later with...
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The butterflies are still fueling up on nectar and laying eggs that will likely hatch next year. So keep those flowers going for the Pearl Crescents and others!
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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail to brighten your day! He’s happy those zinnias hold their flowers a long time.
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The skippers are still sipping away! This Zabulon Skipper is loving these butterfly bush flowers. Interesting how different the same skipper looks from two different angles. Advertisements
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They are here!
The dogbane flowers have bloomed… and the Silver Spotted Skippers have found them!
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Carpenter Bees on Pollinator Week
We are getting a late start to alerting our readers of this important week, but hope if you are reading us that you are already here with protecting pollinators. Here’s an interesting thing we read...
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Pollinator Friends in Hemp Dogbane
Hickory and I have spotted a number of pollinators in this suburban grove of Hemp Dogbane. Many of them flew too fast for us to catch, but four bumblebees slowed enough… An Azure skipper popped in. And...
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Busy as a…
Bee! We had to stop and appreciate that he circled the center of each shasta daisy, gathering the nectar from the row of disc flowers that are currently blooming. That flower is smart, not putting all...
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Look who turned up in the Joe Pye Weed
It’s a honeybee! We see one or two of these nectar-feeders every couple weeks in our neighborhood flowers…but no more. It’s a curious thing, since honeybees live in a colony? We would think they would...
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Skippers love Mistflower!
Look what Miz Flora came across today on her quest for purple flowers: It’s blue mistflower and Miz Flora wasn’t the only one who liked it! Those spiky flowers are many little florets stuffed together,...
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