A Fiery Skipper on lantana on campus.A native fleabane in the front yard.Another Fiery Skipper on the verbena at home. I need to replace this non native moss verbena with prairie verbena but I can’t get it to germinate. 😡A paper wasp on mealy blue sage. It looks weirdly purple here.Using my new copy of the social wasps book, I narrowed this down to Polistes fuscatus or Polistes bellicosus, based on not much black on legs, black tipped antennae, and the yellow ring around the abdomen.The Hedeoma is flowering!
I saw a Fiery Skipper yesterday too!
Must be their time!
Pretty flowers