This is a garden for the Rusty-Patch Bumblebee. We are calling her home.
This week, we’ll start big.
Getting to know the deer individually.
The squirrels are appreciating the roast pans of clean water I’ve been leaving out. The closest water source is across the street and it seems a small kindness.
Everything needs habitat. The chipmunk loves the trails I make because they are highly camouflaged there.
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird on the bee balm. Other native plants she loves are Wild Bergamot, Jewelweed, and Blue Vervain, which I happen to have in a lovely patch altogether, with plenty of sticks to perch on, because it’s tiring to flit and flutter.
Unlike the female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird which has no ruby throat, female Blue Jays also exhibit the trademark blue. It is however much more muted, and you’re not likely to watch her strut. The female blue jays here are very timid.
No common name for this wasp and I don’t have it in me to learn latin.
Although these are in the tribe Cryptini and that’s hard to forget.
A bit of a sedate dragonfly week. And not a butterfly to speak of.
And only these two tiny moths.
A teeny beetle on the Pearly Everlasting. Planted these because they are a host for the Painted Lady Butterfly. I saw the caterpillars and then today saw the butterfly for about four seconds before a chickadee ate it straight from the air.
Lots of bumbling going on this week.
A sweat bee and a furrow bee. Once you start highlighting native plants, you realize there are way more bees than you thought.
Please admire my predators, the potter’s grass spider and the eastern bush orbweaver.
Flies for my fans.
An extra special flower fly for anyone who needs it.
Some wasps and hornets. Some big. Some small. All entertaining.
THANK YOU BYEEE
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