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Tag Archives: Insects
Fun with flora and fauna
For the past few days, I have been enjoying the emergence and maturation of a new crop of blossoms in our garden. And—no great surprise here—it seems that the closer I look, the more I see. I have a friend … Continue reading
Spring back (6)
For today’s spring flashback, I’d like to rewind my world clock by some eleven years. While on a working trip in France, I had a weekend free to explore the natural beauty of Bretagne/Brittany and, from my base in Quimper, … Continue reading
Aerial acrobatics
Just a week and a half ago I posted a photo [here] in which a bumblebee in flight was approaching a stationary Red-Banded Hairstreak butterfly, and I have had many wonderful comments and compliments as a result. Yesterday I revisited … Continue reading
Extra! Extra! Paper!
I’ve been intending to get back to broader views after my recent focus on small and intimate imagery, but an encounter yesterday has encouraged me to reconsider, at least temporarily. The golden trumpet vine that grows nearby has been such … Continue reading
Cool and unusual
At long last, a modicum of relief from the exceptional drought conditions we’ve been having! Victoria offered to send us some of theirs from Australia yesterday, and it must have worked. It wasn’t much, only a (small) fraction of an … Continue reading
A very close encounter
We are experiencing very serious (officially “exceptional”) drought conditions here in Omaha, having had no rain worth mentioning since June. Vast patches of vegetation (meadows, grasslands, lawns, etc.) are horribly dry, brown, brittle, and parched. There was a 5-minute shower … Continue reading
Late summer flora and fauna
Today was the first day of the fall season (or at least of the new school year), and Limo and I undertook the first wonderful walk to meet CD halfway as she walked home from work. I arrived at our meeting … Continue reading
Least but not last
In yesterday’s post I wrote of the butterfly activity in the bounty of blossoms offered by the cucumber vines growing in and on our sumac hedge, and narrowed in on the appearance of the tiny Red-Banded Hairstreaks. Today I’d like … Continue reading
Rare Peeks at Hairstreaks
Just the other day I noticed a flurry of activity in the hedge of tri-lobed sumac that borders the walk to our front door. Dozens of Least Skippers (Ancyloxypha numitor) were flitting about in the sunshine, but not because of … Continue reading
Big Blossoms and Tiny Texans
A few weeks ago CD told me about a magnificent hibiscus with enormous red flowers on the property of some good friends nearby, and I called and asked if they’d mind if I went over quite early in the day … Continue reading
