Happy May Day with the cabbage moth
A cabbage moth flitted around the garden today and lingered in a patch of native plants, sipping nectar and sunning itself. First it flew...
Welcome back, Umber Skippers !
How exciting! Today I saw umber skippers in the garden for the first time since last autumn! The skipper in the image above is perched on...
Guess what this is...
A "Wild Cotton" milkweed seed pod. I suddenly noticed the pod while walking around the backyard the other day. It is about 1 1/2 inches...
Ray Hartman Ceanothus gearing up for its big show soon
Our huge ceanothus shrub is developing tiny flower heads that will be in full bloom in one or two months. Once the shrub is in full...
The California hair streak butterfly
Hair streak butterfly in the lavatera I recently learned that the hair streak butterfly population is in decline due to vanishing...
More from the Berkeley Botanical Garden
And here's a very familiar butterfly - the umber skipper poanes melane . These butterflies habitat consists of desert foothills,...
At the Berkeley Botanical Garden
It's been a while since we visited the Berkeley Botanical Garden in Tilden Park, so it was exciting to see some pollinators that don't...
Life in the fig tree
Gulf fritillary butterfly on ripening Mission fig Now that the Mission figs are starting to ripen, there is all kind of activity going on...
September garden visitors
Here's another umber skipper, this time on a cluster of Lycnos campion rose. These butterflies are so funny, because they seem curious...
Lovely little umber skipper
Umber skippers are very small butterflies, that could almost be mistaken for moths. They visit our garden very often, usually in pairs....
