Posted on June 26, 2022June 26, 202206/26/2022 sleepy yard day Partridge pea blooming. A big skipper caught my attention this morning. I think it may be a Confused Cloudywing or an Outis Skipper. The pale ish area below the antennal club is why I think maybe Outis Skipper, but I also get the impression that one is rarer, so I wonder if I’m missing something obvious that makes it a cloudywing. Both have been recorded in Cleveland county, Oklahoma though. Saw a two spotted bumblebee on mealy blue sage again! The juniperleaf cuttings have started to perk up and poke at the plastic wrap, so I am unsealing them a bit to see if they can handle less humidity yet. Silly sleep
Posted on November 6, 2021November 6, 2021Very exciting very large skipper I believe this is a Brazilian Skipper. It may be a new county record! It was SO BIG, just a little smaller than a sphinx moth. Apparently they are regular in central Texas and elsewhere south, but wander north in the fall.
Posted on June 11, 2021June 11, 2021Yesterday’s stuff The Chef got three jars of dehydrated onion stems/leaves from our harvest of granex bulb onions. The bulbs are still drying in the hall. My hat is irresistible to Gram. He tries to eat the string and tulle until I get fed up and put it up. Fleabane in full bloom! Photography is boring for dog. Dill starting to bloom. Elderberry is thriving. Full view. It’s just one plant! A tiny bee on Gaillardia pulchella. A young (?) lynx spider eats a house fly while sitting on coreopsis. Coneflowers are going strong. I need to look up the name of this skipper, which is sitting on a dayflower leaf.