Saturday, July 13, 2019

More butterflies

A duskywing loved the mint.  A black swallowtail laid eggs on the rue.  A red spotted purple flitted around the cherry and landed on the aucuba.  I saw a tiger swallowtail but didn't get a picture. 

A spider demonstrated how to walk on water.  I rescued a green metallic tiger beetle and that ungrateful spider.  Meanwhile, the Argiope had its lunch all wrapped up.  A great blue skimmer perched and watched.  A small black bee on the butterfly milkweed had pollen al over its forehead as well as in baskets on its front legs.  A great black digger wasp zipped around the flowers faster than I could follow. 

A hummingbird looked for nectar in all the wrong places.  The scarlet beebalm bloomed though the plant  looked battered.  But the hummer didn't notice the red flowers.  A male hummer showed up in the late afternoon but got away without a photo.  So did a blue jay that raided the porridge in the bark butter dish.  I saw an osprey land in the neighbor's pine. 

 

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