Posted on August 14, 2021August 21, 2021Early morning to early afternoon Briar wanted to go out around 4am. I found this nibbled out Bisbee red cowpea flower. A pair of Red-banded Hairstreaks mating. They must have started yesterday as I can’t imagine they were flying at night. Alright actual morning, the chewed up flower still opened! A bit of rain seems to have the Bisbee red cowpeas really blooming! A tepary bean flower! She had a piece of grass on her nose, silly dog. A break indoors. Gram’s really lounging hard. A close up of this hard working kitty cat. A geometrid moth trapped in the shower. I released it outside. Front porch is boring. She sits next to more strawberry runners I’m capturing in dirt for a coworker. A Pearl Crescent sits on moon and stars watermelon leaf which is speckled with “stars”. A different watermelon flowering. I forget which variety. A jumping spider patrolling the cushaw squash vine Briar investigates. An American Bumblebee (Bombus pennsylvanicus) in the loofah gourd flower. The volunteer loofah gourds are really framing the rain barrel nicely. A different loofah individual has made itself a ground cover for one of the apple trees. The whole front garden.
Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Potatoes and a butterfly Emptied two potato growing bags and found four potatoes (fine, but not worth picturing) and a toad. Sorry for disturbing you, Toad. I stopped moving bags since it was afternoon and hot on Saturday. I will do more later in an evening for Toad movement safety. This black widow spider was more productive than my potatoes with six round egg sacs generated vs my four potatoes. I put this bag back. A butterfly on butterfly milkweed. (Pearl Crescent).
Posted on June 3, 2021June 3, 2021Not quite the right match My first frogfruit bloom! Frogfruit is the host plant of the Phaon Crescent, but this nearby butterfly is a Pearl Crescent 🤷😂