The weather was hot and sunny but I had too many meetings and errands today. I saw lots of dragonflies and two butterflies. The dragonflies included blue dashers, a female great blue skimmer, and a male widow skimmer. A black swallowtail and a monarch were the butterflies. The bees seem to harass butterflies. I admired the Argiope on the front patio which might have been larger than the one in back. It was guarding a ripe pepper. There was no sign of the spider that had been building a web near the wasp nest.
One of the rain lilies revived. The exterminator arrived to deal with the wasp nest near the sidewalk. It turned out to be yellow jackets. I did not know they would build an above ground nest. After he extracted it, the gentleman showed it to me. The paper comb was about 8" in diameter and the hexagonal pupa cells were as big as my little finger. I wish I'd thought to grab the camera and take a photo.
I saw a bluebird and a Carolina wren but only got a photo of a pair of brown headed nuthatches.
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