Poignant elegy for a monarch butterfly
Kathy Contrino, NY, wrote this very moving post in a private facebook group where we are both members, including her photos, about a...
Everyone enjoys the Delta sunflowers
Look who is eating dried Delta sunflower blossoms. This is the first time I've seen a squirrel sitting in the sunflower shrub. It looks...
Monarch chrysalis in a curious place
I read today that some monarch caterpillars will weave their silk pads and attach to the underside of stones and proceed to pupate. When...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bee on a Blue Thimble Flower
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees, Bombus vosnesenskii, have been constant visitors in our garden ever since early spring. I don't remember seeing...
Monarch caterpillars on their way
After a few weeks of ...now you see them, now you don't, we've observed three caterpillars eat their way into fifth instar. This number...
In the the Raggedy Ann Zinnia
Sometimes a cricket will decide to live in your garden. I was so surprised to see it, because I had never seen one before. At first I...
Lesser Goldfinch and the Delta Sunflower
The Delta Sunflower Helianthus annuus“Delta Sunflower" is constantly visited by many kinds of creatures. And now when some of the leaves...
Firecracker Skimmer is here to stay
The Firecracker or Flame Skimmer female apparently has discovered a good afternoon resting spot on our patio. For the past three days she...
Buckeye Butterfly visitor
How exciting! My first sighting of a buckeye butterfly Junonia coenia in our garden! And just a day after seeing leaf cutting bees on...
Leaf Cutting Bee on the Chim Chiminee
So nice to see a leaf cutting bee on the Rudbeckia hirta "Chim Chiminee". This is a hard to find "Black Eyed Susan" that I purchased from...
