Ceaselessly it seems waves of cicadas sound swells
and breaks upon the heat of day.
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Pictured: Neotibicen tibicen tibicen
(aka morning cicada, swamp cicada)
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July 24, 2017
Heat waves
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: annual, cicada, morning cicada, nature, neotibicen tibicen tibicen, pennsylvania, summer, swamp cicada, Tibicen chlormera |[5] Comments
July 19, 2017
Lines of living
Posted by Scott under lepidoptera | Tags: Chalcoela iphitalis, Crambidae, moth, nature, pennsylvania, summer |[4] Comments
Lines of living geometry provide sufficient pause to discover, instead of a butterfly,
two of a kind of hoop-skirted moth: Chalcoela iphitalis, the sooty-winged chalcoela,
whose caterpillars hatch in paper wasp nests, feed on the host wasp’s larvae,
occupy then vacant cells for their own metamorphosis, and emerge to resume the circle all over.
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June 20, 2017
milkweed garden — third spring, first blooms
Posted by Scott under Plants | Tags: Asclepias syriaca, common milkweed, flower, gardening, nature, pennsylvania, pink, spring |[4] Comments
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June 14, 2017
moment
Posted by Scott under Plants | Tags: blue, flower, lawn, nature, pennsylvania, small, speedwell, spring, Veronica serpyllifolia, weed, white |Leave a Comment
mown a moment remembering thyme-leaved speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia).
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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
One
more
monarch
headed
in due time
for
Mexico
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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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May 18, 2016
Myth has it …
Posted by Scott under Insects | Tags: lepidoptera, lilac, moth, nature, nessus sphinx, pennsylvania, rilke, sphinx, spring |[4] Comments
an ancient sphinx long ago posed the riddle
whose answer all who heard were already living.
More recent wisdom emboldens one to “live the questions now”
so to grow and embody the answers tomorrow.
These days, by Little Crum Creek, a Nessus sphinx moth (Amphion floridensis)
suspends the lesson between a beckoning lilac and its transfixed observer,
unfurling a feeder toward ephemeral blooms before the season passes.
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