Seen today

A baby snapping turtle

Goldenrod

A pretty moth on the Bidens

Fungi on Shady Ramble

Welcome!

A skipper takes me up on my welcome to all bees and butterflies.

A duskywing joins the other images on my welcome flag.

Herb Garden Construction Progress

These first two photos were taken on Saturday.

These photos were taken today, Tuesday.

'm 'm good

This morning everyone was out nectaring on the dandelions in the path around the meadows. This is an orange sulphur.

Swarthy skipper

Cabbage white

Honey bee, and also saw the sweat bee.

Duskywing

Here is a skipper on three

Nature Lesson for the Day

In the new meadow look for these two perennials blooming. This is Boltonia. Or come on the Meadow Walk on Friday at 10 and I will show them to you.

Common Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale

Flower fly, which is a bee mimic.

Sweat bee. This one is a bee.

Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum

Fork-tailed bush katydid

Some Firsts in the Meadow

Bur-marigold Bidens aristosa. I finally saw 2 blooming in the front meadow.

New England Aster

Purple-stemmed aster. A real beauty!

Wild senna. Said to be a host plant for the silver-spotted skipper.

Evening Primrose. My first photo, as I never seem to get there early enough to see this one.

Soldier beetle. Not a first but a better photo.

Meadow Today

Blooming now is tickseed-sunflower, Bidens polylepsis.

Bidens polylepsis below, with a soldier beetle.

If this Bidens is blooming, why not our Bur-marigold. Bidens aristosa, which is in the new meadow.

Yellow bear caterpillar, which will be a Virginian Tiger Moth.

Pearl crescent

white face check

metallic-green eyes check

black and yellow striped thorax check

pale blue tapered abdomen check

Must be a male blue dasher.