So the evening field trip in New Braunfels will take a bit for me to process and will be posted at a later date.
So back at home. 🙂
Early on Tuesday morning, the FOS (first of season) White-crowned Sparrows popped in. The cold front will be moving more so keep those nighttime lights off as much as you can. Kathy told me she had Yellow Sapsuckers now.
The Fall Asters (Symphyotrichum ericoides) have exploded! Some of you may call them White Heath Asters as does iNat. 🤷🏻♀️ This species looks like a scraggly “weed” all summer.
Then in the fall these asters come alive! The Five-banded Thynnid Wasp (Myzinum quinquecinctum) was in head first!
Several species of wasps visited like this Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)!
The Fiery Skipper wasn’t going to be left out of the buffet!
The Poecilanthrax lucifer bee fly doesn’t care what you call them…no common name. However they got in line for feast! LOL.
Fall/heath asters grow in the bar ditch and right-of-way in front of our house. We keep them mowed so now they look like a wonderful flowering ground cover. I need to sow some seeds in the back part of our yard so they can grow as tall as they want.
Asters all over my yard. Love the skipper
Home and lunch to so many!
I love my asters too!
Fall/heath asters grow in the bar ditch and right-of-way in front of our house. We keep them mowed so now they look like a wonderful flowering ground cover. I need to sow some seeds in the back part of our yard so they can grow as tall as they want.