too hot here for any more veges or fruits, but boy that cantaloupe looks good, Keith.
Would love to have those worms, here, Gamera would love them. She is back inside where she is not quite so hot. Ju, what is Meadow Rue, and I want some .. LOL Nice morning glorys by the way...
Debra if you look for Thalictrum You will see the Meadow Rue in all varieties ,
Thank you for the pretty Morning glories ,,
Cardinal Flower
next two , My eaten Echinacea (ground hog
Grandpa Ott
Cutleaf Coneflower
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Yup, Joe, I know the irritation at double posts. Flowers are happy anyway..
which one is Grandpa Ott Ju?
Gosh look at all those worms.
Ju, nice catch of the Gold finches, I didn't notice them in the weather forum. Love the morning glory vines.
Hi Debra, nice starfish cactus bloom, butterflies too.
Keith, great pics of your edibles, melons yum yum.
Gypsi, mild jalapenos work for me..LOL
My passionvine going crazy with all the rain, but I have Zebra Longwings flying all over the place, they are the friendliest butterfly, sometimes I think they're going to land on me.
Gypsi #4
Thanks sun !! your wildlife and blooms are Delightful too !!!
Kitt As if that double post was not bad enough ,my Vaio hard drive got hit Can't log in to my computer at all , I am here on a borrowed Acer from a sister ,,A 32 tiny computer
Beautiful butterflies Sherri. Reece wants to know why we don't have them here.
Grandma sent Reece end I on a nature walk to collect wild flowers and weeds for a fall fair entry Reece was working on. We took the canoe up the creek that I walk on in the winter and went to an abandoned field on the other side. Much to my surprise there was a whack of Jerusalem Artichoke growing wild back there. Very rare thing here
Pretty Keith, you are looking at frosts soon up there, aren't you? while I am crippled by this humid heat, chuckl. Everything is still going, peppers mostly, as I am not happy with the tomatoes. Cut the fennel back, but it may come back. I am wondering if I ought to chanj my focus on plants...I seem to be feeding everything but me, chuckl
Careful with that F worď Kitt. Yes, mixed in with the intense heat we have been getting there are reminders with the odd cool morning that that is just around the corner. I don't know how long it has been since we got a decent rain. Most of my lawn is crisp. We were finally put in a restricted fire zone. Can't believe they have waited this long to do that. I would not have risked burning anything for a long time
First ripe red ones!
Beautiful tomato. Summer sandwich starting.....
Yup, I feel a few pounds coming on because we have to have those on toast with bacon
Flowers and Butterflies here , Tomatoes look yummy ,,
Good variety of insects there Ju. First one on the zinnia kind of looked to me like a hummingbird moth except I don't see the wings???
Keith it is , wings were moving faster than my camera lens
The yellow above is an Alfalfa Sulpher The Buckeye near the window and of course the monarch
Here is Checkered Skipper ,
late start but a growing cantaloupe, Bees in Texas sage, Garden Spider, orb weaver Aurantia I think? Monarch way too close to that spider, and tiger swallow tail on John Fannick Phlox. I've got more good pics but have to fly out the door again. I like that hummingbird moth pic Ju. I've got those, but tell me are tomato worms the caterpillar?
Gypsi , Tomato Hornworms , and there are different types that look very similar
Two I do know ,,The caterpillars are a Large Sphinx Moth and a Luna Moth
Love the pics , Delightful ..
and Gypsi , Hummingbird Moths are actually a Snowberry Clearwing , Snowberry is their host plant here ,
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I don't know what they are eating here then, but I have had them on my John Fannick Phlox. will try to chase a photo down later
Gypsi Lonicera Honeysuckle or Dogbane where you are ? I would guess ,
Loving the entomology lessons here guys and great pictures. Gypsi your cantaloupe looks very different from what I grow. Best growing year we have had for them in many years
Well it feels like August because it is August. 107 today. Suppose to cool down and I am so ready.
Photo is my pink Mexican bird of paradise seeds that are germinating. And my make shift greenhouse. I got those hot pot covers years ago.
Sharon ,looks like a good start Love those covers ,
Humidity here has been 90 to near 100% except when it raining it is Ghastly , like Jungle swamp ,,
Morning Glory a little chewed
Fresh out of chrysalis.
Keith looking anew there
1 Umbrella in the rain two days ago here
2 I got this this morning a large green female clouded sulpher
Very nice Ju, had a hard time seeing the clouded sulphur against all the other lime green
Keith those and Cabbage whites I have a difficult time getting a good focus with camera Think of the sulpher as a leaf growing out of the middle of the Rose of Sharon bloom ,
I'm only a fair wildlife photographer ,,,
No worries, the challenge finding them adds to the interest. Speaking of cabbage whites, we sure have a lot of those but I don't photograph them
That is actually a remarkable photo Ju, I didn't see it til I looked for the leaf from the bloom.
I have had a monarch yesterday. I rarely get them before the migration so it was a treat and almost a treat for my local garden spider.
Tiger swallowtail on Phlox
Better tiger swallowtail, wonder if I should enter in a contest, I didn't see that one earlier
Soapwort in July
Took 2 years to get a stargazer bloom
Gypsi Thank you your Tiger Swallowtails look great ,I have only seen one or two here this year , pretty flowers ,,
Thing with that big green female is she really is green like that I see several male sulphers during the seasons yellow as they look in photo's
Keith lots of Cabbage Whites here also I try sometimes to take a pic of them for focus practice ,
Nice pics of butterflies and flowers Gypsi. We had a whack if swallowtails real eàrly this year but nothing recently.
I had to move the spider today after I rescued a monarch. I was too late for the swallowtail. So Spidey is in the peach tree in the garden or somewhere proximate, there are some tall sunflowers on the south side of that fence
Thank you Keith and Ju for your comments.
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Nothing prettier than a brand new butterfly, except maybe that precious grand-daughter in the patch of flowers. ☺♥
Gypsi, good move on the spider, I've rescued some from lizards, most get out of the webs on their own, but your spiders are big uns.
Nice tomatoes, and melon, and seed starts.
Ju and Gypsi....Wonderful pics of butterflies, summer in full swing still.
Beautiful shots Sherri
Spider may have been eaten by a bird, I don't see a web, but her offspring are safe in my Texas Sage already. And I have more monarchs and queens today. (no pics - tree trimming here in the heat)
Thanks Keith. ☺
We did tree trimming last week, my gosh is that a hot job.
Sun That Peacock butterfly is really something , Tropical others pretty
Trees getting closer. To done, they are now all over 10 years old, job getting too big for me
White zinnia
2 praying mantis helping me build a garage door
3 zinnia
4 celosia in morning glories
5 coreopsis still blooming
90's for here today ,
