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
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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June 4, 2012
Rude awakening for a weary traveler
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: brown, delaware county, europe, large yellow underwing, lepidoptera, moth, nature, noctua pronuba, noctuidae, orange, pennsylvania |[12] Comments
First observed on our North American continent in Nova Scotia in 1979, Europe’s large yellow underwing moth (Noctua pronuba) has sure come a long way to one day be roused from its cover of soft brown forewings and awkwardly rise in surprising orange flutter before an approaching mower here in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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