Hot sun

Blue dashers were on duty, protecting us from mosquitoes.  Wrens found yummies in the glass dish.  Hummingbirds checked out anything that looked like a flower. 

The two frogs were back on the ladder step, though before the sun reached it, one frog rode on the thermometer..  I rescued two skinks from the water, also a tiger moth (Apantesis).  The cicada I found had already died.  The creek was very low at low tide. 

A little green bee fed on the lavender while the praying mantis watched.  Fewer wasps were attracted to the mountain mint since the webbing seemed to affect blooming.  I found the hole where the wasp stuffed in the caterpillar. 

The (Mecynogea lemniscata) basilica orbweaver spider in the rue had several egg pearls on its string.  I found a caterpillar on the swamp milkweed and two on the butterfly milkweed.   Titmice were abundant.