I love how soft and plush his fur is and how his little trousers are packed with red pollen.
Tag: fauna
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) with thistle
Catnip and Bee
I’m up to P (working on Q), but probably won’t get any scanning done tonight. The second half of the alphabet is definitely more difficult than the first. I have no idea what I’m going to do about X and Z.
Bumblebee and Catnip
Tomato Hornworms
O gross!
The little bastards–I found three of them–have eaten one bunch of tomato plants. OVERNIGHT!!! The plants were fine yesterday, with no sign of caterpillars. When I went out to water them this evening, I noticed that something had chomped on some of the baby romas, and that a bunch of foliage was gone. GONE! Like, entire branches!
I realize these will eventually (like, after a month of chomping) turn into moths, which would be fine, except for the month of chomping part. I don’t have enough tomato plants to feed them, so The Three Little Caterpillars went bye-bye.
Red Spotted Purple
Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax)
The red spots on the upper, top wings are just barely visible in the bottom photo. In the top photo, he’s licking the sweat from my hand. Butterfly kisses are tickly!
(The first three photos were shot with a Lensbaby 2.0 with +4 macro filter.)
Dispatch from the Spider House of Horrors
I wish I could say that this was the only spider on the windshield of my car, but it wasn’t. That’s not even the bad part, though. As I was driving home–on a twisty, hilly road, mind you–I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a harvestman spider INSIDE THE CAR. AIEEE!!! I think I should get some sort of commendation or medal or something for not going off the road.
A Plague of Harvestmen
I’m cat sitting again, and the owner emailed me last weekend to warn me that there were spiders camping out on her doorstep. Lots of harvestman spiders, to be exact.
This morning, after about half the spiders had scattered:
This afternoon, when there were still 20-30 spiders hanging out on the garage door:
Flowery Bits
Begonias
Ornamental Grass
Beetle Fight!!!
Moth
This little guy was fluttering around my window this afternoon. Every time he would light on the window sill, I’d get my camera, and every time I started to focus on him, he’d start fluttering around again. I finally got a quick photo, though.
red paper boat 