Sun then clouds then sun as the wind tossed the trees. The birds stayed home mostly though the squirrels were active. I saw a downy woodpecker on the suet at breakfast, but nothing on the seed feeder all day. After lunch, the catbird was back eating beauty berries.
Nether honey nor bumble/carpenter bees were deterred by the wind, and I saw one small mason wasp, black with yellow bands, on the rue. A small, black, velvety caterpillar bustled across the concrete. A birdwing grasshopper flew in and proceeded to ovoposit around the rose.
I pulled up the dead sunflowers and the morning glories entangled with them. Somehow I dislodged a green hornworm - sphinx moth caterpillar. Assuming it had been eating morning glory, I tried to induce it to crawl onto another that I had not uprooted, but had no success. When I searched online I found a match that's fond of moonvine -
pink spotted hawkmoth Agrius cingulata.
Sun then clouds then sun as the wind tossed the trees. The birds stayed home mostly though the squirrels were active. I saw a downy woodpecker on the suet at breakfast, but nothing on the seed feeder all day. After lunch, the catbird was back eating beauty berries.
Nether honey nor bumble/carpenter bees were deterred by the wind, and I saw one small mason wasp, black with yellow bands, on the rue. A small, black, velvety caterpillar bustled across the concrete. A birdwing grasshopper flew in and proceeded to ovoposit around the rose. 
I pulled up the dead sunflowers and the morning glories entangled with them. Somehow I dislodged a green hornworm - sphinx moth caterpillar. Assuming it had been eating morning glory, I tried to induce it to crawl onto another that I had not uprooted, but had no success. When I searched online I found a match that's fond of moonvine - pink spotted hawkmoth Agrius cingulata. 
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