One
more
monarch
headed
in due time
for
Mexico
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September 20, 2016
Why plant milkweed?
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: Asclepias syriaca, black, butterfly, Danaus plexippus, milkweed, monarch, nature, orange, pennsylvania, summer |[21] Comments
July 3, 2016
a nice spot
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: black, nature, pennsylvania, plant bug, Poecilocapsus lineatus, spring, summer, yellow |[4] Comments
The fuzzy milkweed leaf — a nice spot to set
for a four-lined plant bug (Poecilocapsus lineatus)
done roaming the catmint
to feed like the young.
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June 13, 2016
Sown here
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: beetle, black, calopteron discrepans, milkweed, nature, orange, spring, wings |[4] Comments
Sown here last year for the monarch and her brood
milkweed has grown to host a new visitor —
like this banded net-winged beetle
(calopteron discrepans, I think) —
on nearly every leaf turned
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September 18, 2014
proves the point
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: black, bug, Hemiptera, insect, nature, orange, pennsylvania, Pselliopus barberi |[8] Comments
Feeding among clusters of pending white snakeroot blooms,
an orange assassin bug (Pselliopus barberi) proves the point of its name.
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