Showing posts with label pollinators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollinators. Show all posts
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Lantana

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Day 238: Although some species of Lantana are considered invasive in the warmer climates of the southern states, they do not survive the win...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Hummers' Delight

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Day 201: The planting hummingbird and pollinator gardens has achieved great popularity in recent years. Who wouldn't want to help the bi...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

Summer Blues

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Day 267: I get the blues when it rains. Or rather, I get the rain when it blues. When the delphinium spikes open fully, it seldom fails to e...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Origanum Vulgare, Wild Marjoram

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Day 314: As much as I appreciate being able to botanize in my own back yard, I do wish that my finds would be native species as opposed to i...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Pollinator At Work

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Day 314: This year as last, I will owe a debt of gratitude to the dozens of Anna's Hummingbirds who are busily pollinating my Heritage r...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Heterotheca Pollinators

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Day 301: Whatever they are, they would appear to be a primary pollinator for Heterotheca oregona. These little beetles are roughly 1-1.5 ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Chasing Phantoms

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Day 270: Putting this in perspective, the three people who make up the core of Team Biota are three of only six or seven individuals who ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Bee-Wear

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Day 103: The United States is on the fast track for achieving the unenviable status as the world's most environmentally insensitive c...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Sphinx Moth Pupa

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Day 248: I have to thank my partners in Team Biota for putting me on the right track to identify this pupa, dug up from the ground when ...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Dreams Of Blueberries

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Day 207: When I put in my blueberry bushes, I selected "mid-season" varieties using the logic that the pollinators would not be...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Dissection And Discovery

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Day 350: After a phenomenal 10-day blooming run, the points of Huernia zebrina's star-shaped inflorescence folded in on themselves, h...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Pink Elephants

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Day 310: I thought I was going to have to buy a gallon of cheap wine in order to see pink elephants this year, but thanks to my botany p...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, Hooded Ladies' Tresses

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Day 301: In the opinion of this observer, the spire-like inflorescence of Hooded Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana) is one of...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Delphinium Glareosum, Rockslide Larkspur

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Day 277: No rarity here, just a blue that'll knock your socks off! Rivalling Gentian and Monkshood for intensity of colour, Rockslide...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Tofieldia Glutinosa And Friend

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Day 241: Tofieldia glutinosa (Western False Asphodel) is a member of the lily family, the flower stalk rising above a tuft of iris-like ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Singin' The Blues

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Day 230: I was singin' the blues because the steady stream of Rufous Hummingbirds at the feeders seemed to have dwindled over the la...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Are You My Mummy?

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Day 325: Look what followed me home! As much as I would like to provide pollinators with their favourite foods, the tall sedum in the stra...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

How Doth The Little Busy Bee

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Day 302: I was too close for someone who is seriously allergic to their stings, but the Honey Bees had more important things on their min...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Fuzzy-Wuzzy Was A Phacelia

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Day 293: We've all had an experience where we saw someone we were sure we recognized, but couldn't remember where we might have s...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

A Taste For Cilantro

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Day 292: Of all the things they have to choose from in my garden, the Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) and several species of tiny non-aggress...