I couldn't remember the last day that stayed below 90°. The no melt bark butter melted and spilled on the hibiscus. But the heat may have brought out the insects at last. I chased a tiger swallowtail with the camera to no avail. Two buckeyes fed on the mountain mint and were occasionally harassed by the bees and wasps doing the same. There were at least five great golden digger wasps, carpenter bees, leaf cutter bees, honeybees, scoliid and thread-waisted wasps. I think I saw a syrphid fly too.
A Needham's skimmer posed on the back of a chair. Blue dashers obelisked while waiting for the next bug. Today's rescues included a small moth, an assassin bug nymph, and a wasp. There were spiders, but they didn't cooperate.
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