Monday, September 12, 2016

Perfect September day

Mostly blue sky with wispy clouds, hot sun and a cooling breeze - that's perfect. 

Butterflies were out: a cabbage white, a palamedes swallowtail, a gray hairstreak, and others that got away.  The eggs on the parsley hatched into caterpillars just big enough to see.  I saw a blue dasher before it dashed away.  Lots of small webs festooned the shrubs, both orbs and domes.  Bees and wasps were working on the herbs. I saw a small black thread-waisted wasp and a blue winged digger wasp.  Jays and squirrels were busy with acorns.  Hummers were hungry, of course.

I tried to identify the flower in the photo with the gray hairstreak and learned it is a DYC.  When the afternoon sun, about 4pm, came through the bathroom widow, I discovered there was a huge orb web outside.


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