Literally it was quiet Sunday. The nearby race track surprisingly wasn’t roaring. Even though it is six or seven miles as the crow flies, sometimes it sounds like it just on top the hill.
Before dawn, a short lived low fog laid in our field this morning.
A glowing Bolete mushroom! Note that it was my flash that made it appear to glow. This one will bruise blue and is a polypore.
A very lovely wasp, the Five-banded Thynnid Wasp (Myzinum quinquecinctum) on the equally beautiful Fall Asters (Symphyotrichum ericoides)! Besides eating pollen and nectar, they parasitize beetle larvae.
Purpletop (Tridens flavus) is really have a year! Some over five foot tall and there are many thick patches of it in North Texas.
A tiny black aphid, tentatively in the genus Rhopalosiphum on the Purpletop.
Now is the time to be on the look out for the Purpletop Sun Moth (Heliocheilus lupatus) caterpillars. And where do you find them? Of course on the Purpletop (Tridens flavus)!
A closer view of the above cat!
And as I was searching this tiny True Bug (Heteroptera) nymph was hanging on.
I need to check our purple top again for cats!!
You do!
Cute true bug nymph
Indeedy!
I need to do the same!
That bubbly lizard is really cool.
I loved that bubble lizard too!
I’ll be watching the purpletop too!
The Bolete mushroom looks like it just popped out of the oven. I must be hungry!
Go find some breakfast quick! But not this toxic bolete!