Hot & sunny

I got up early but was not rewarded with anything but the sound of tree crickets finishing the night's concert.  A couple of bumblebees got into aerial combat like yesterday's hummers. 

Overall, It was a much better day for insects than birds.  I finally got a cicada killer to hold still.  I found a black swallowtail caterpillar that had run out of parsley eating lavender.  And I rescued a tiger moth from the pool, twice.  The third time I left it to its fate. Acorn shrapnel is everywhere and the pool is full of floaters and sinkers.  Also stupid black mulch beetles.

 The sunset was very red.