Again with the poison ivy. Grrrrr. Aside from that annoyance, it was a very pretty day. A Carolina wren investigated the bark butter dish, but the rain had made soup of it. Probably a half inch fell, judging by the ant moat. Hummers got a fresh batch of juice. If anything, that made them more aggressive. There were several battles as well as chases.
One rudbeckia seed germinated and today a blackeyed susan popped up among the daisies. A sheet of cloud moved in and worried me but it kept going and the blue sky returned.
The great golden digger wasp was back and so was a blue mud wasp. One threadwaisted wasp harassed another, or maybe it was looking for love. I found two dead grubs on one of the patio chairs. My best guess was
that they washed out of a wasp nest. A yellow kneed wasp was hunting
among the violets. I rescued some beetles from the water but I left a stinkbug to its fate.
A duskywing skipper alternated between the mountain mint and the regular mint and the lavender. I found a small monarch caterpillar on the swamp milkweed. Twelve spotted skimmers and Carolina saddlebags were flying low but a twelve spot chased the saddlebags over the roof. At least one blue dasher lurked on the vegetation.
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