Our high temperature today was 102 degrees. Fingers crossed for a chance of rain soon!
A black wasp (Aculeata) feeds on a Greeneyes!
Nearby at the Wand Milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora), yellow aphids are feeding. And a few ants were there too!
Other little bees were at the flowers! In addition, I saw an American Bumble Bee there too.
This is one of my favorite late summer/fall plant, Eryngo (Eryngium leavenworthii)! It will be like a purple pineapple soon!
Nestled in the top, head first was a true bug. In fact, several of the plants had them.
This was a bit unusual of a find in our woods. It was a Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) on Greenbrier. Normally, I don’t find them in our woods.
I managed to get the top view as well. What I was hoping for was a different species. Nevertheless, it was a nice find.
Final find of the day! A headless and empty shell of its former self, an American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus). A fungi is known to do this to cicadas so perhaps this is something similar?
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know.
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Love the prairie article. Cant imagine the rio grande being dry. Been 40 yrs since last time it was dry. Especially there. Thanks for the pictures of the garden spider.
The garden spider did not stay and is gone. Guess it wasn’t a good place for a web after all. The garden spider in my tomato garden has already caught 5 or 6 grasshoppers that I know about.
Love the prairie article. Cant imagine the rio grande being dry. Been 40 yrs since last time it was dry. Especially there. Thanks for the pictures of the garden spider.
The garden spider did not stay and is gone. Guess it wasn’t a good place for a web after all. The garden spider in my tomato garden has already caught 5 or 6 grasshoppers that I know about.
I am excited in hopes my thistles will grow from your seeds! Such a good plant!!
My fingers are crossed for you!
I love the prairie article. Sharing!
So does a person who loves the prairie, a prairie hugger? Prairie lover? Do you have a name?
I don’t know – never thought about that LOL. Let’s come up with one!
How about prairie-farer like a sea-farer?
I like that, and it nearly rhymes!