#Bee Hummingbird Images

[tinylongwing]

Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world, for phengarornis at bluesky. This image is much larger than the bird itself, that's for sure!

Done as thanks for supporting the Waymakers challenge; see here to donate to support the right of immigrant kids at the US border, and to therefore also request your own bird!

[robolvrr]

attention-seeker ミ⁠●﹏

transformers reactions to human modifications. (tattoos, piercings, hair-dye.) headcanons!

optimus prime, bumblebee, prowl. tfa.

sfw / suggestive under cut.

may do more of them, i love this show to death.

optimus prime

"you do this stuff... for fun? huh."

try as he might, he does not understand the point much.

don't get me wrong, i see animated optimus to be the closest to a mid-twenties rascal as you can get. modifications aren't unheard of for bots. he's not a nun.

however ...

he sees humans as still pretty fragile. so the idea that you like going and having needles shoved into your flesh and jammed through your muscle isn't something he can wrap his helm around at first.

primus forbid you have lots.

imagine him trying to process you explaining that yes, your entire back is covered in ink and you're planning on about five different piercings in the next year.

"so you. you plan on getting two on your back. just because?"

"that's the plan, big guy."

poor mech is lost. though he does enjoy learning more about humanity when he isn't stressing too much about saving it.. so expect questions.

when you suggest getting one of the autobot emblem, his circuits nearly fry.

prowl

"so, what's the significance?"

i see prowl not writing off the behavior as weird and instead digging for why you pursued this journey.

yes, he sees your tattoo and piercing collection as a journey, because that's what it is, isn't it? years of work and pain to adorn your body to your liking.

he knows that humans are bundled with nerves. there's respect earned. he finds humans to be eerily resilient.

will ask you the meaning of each and every one. piercings less so.

"what does this bird represent?"

"mm.. my sense of liberty."

"a visual representation of the wish to stretch to new horizons. how fascinating. being small in a vast universe with the urge to still explore."

"i also just like hummingbirds."

"mm. i see."

will get onto you once he finds out about the "makeshift" work. finds the mistakes or even forgettable craftsmanship to make you endearing.

bumblebee

"whoa! sick paintjob, human!"

he LOVES human culture. and you guys can just... change your appearance? count him impressed!

you had dyed your hair to a nice golden yellow to match his frame and he almost jammed his intake shut.

"you can just. do that?!? b-but your helm used to be-"

"hair, bee."

"right, right. it wasn't always that color though!!!"

he thinks it's so cool. real dork about it. totally buzzed out once you spoke about the chemistry that it went to the process though.

he thinks piercings are cute. after all the fusion of metal and organic is kiiind of taboo. you pull it off great.

tattoos make him beg ratchet to let him upgrade his paint. poor old mech is grumpy and over bumble whining him to just let him "get some flames and that's it."

you draw a lot of inspiration from him. will gladly brainstorm your next big change and puff his chassis out like a lil peacock knowing you're willing to get something permanent done in his designation.

nsfw.

optimus prime

"you look like a painting. primus above, you're gorgeous..."

optimus prime enjoys tracing your tats. he kisses the patterns and images as if the pain of the needle remains, glossa licking along thick and thin ink with shuttered optics.

he likes to see goosebumps trail after. kind of a weird fetish (?) but he mostly enjoys how reactive you are and how your inkwork ripples with the movement.

when he finds out your piercings can make you sensitive ...

well, good luck.

optimus at his spark of sparks is such a tease. when you continue to surprise him, it's nice to be in control of that mutual fascination for once.

"you enjoy when i tug.. these?"

nipple piercings.

expect his glossa. he takes special care to even lubricate each of his digits just to toy with your sore nipples.

prowl

"that's it. fall apart for me. just like art..."

prowl is observant. so when you let it slip that you've been holding back on some of what's on your body...

you're on his berth and naked. his optics are hidden behind his sharp visor.

"holding back on me? that's a shame. i thought you knew better than to do that."

is he angry? hardly! but his processor is about to work overtime when you stammer just why you hadn't gone into depth.

genital piercings.

he doesn't say anything for a long time. doesn't ask the millions of questions bombarding his thoughts. his servos do that speaking before he can.

let's just say you start to understand why he deals with tedious and delicate situations. those hands are built for... meticulous attention.

bites. all the areas with piercings. focuses carefully damn near to the square inch of sensitive flesh where it drives you wild.

tattoos? he loves to scrape his digits down em.

loves to doll you up in lingerie that accentuates everything you hide. crotchless, cut-outs exposing yourself until he can't see where the inkwork begins and ends.

robolvrr 2024.

[sirrabbithat]

Been thinking about a COD!bird hybrid Au. But their all like really fancy birds- I'll definitely be turning this into a fanfic

I'll split this into two posts!

Soap is a new guinea cock of the rock. Mostly for the natural Mohawk. He's trans in this au so he has the bright blue eyes and naturally brown mowhawk and wings. He dyes everything he can orange.

Ghost is a snowy owl because ofc he is, but he doesn't have any of those black stripes on him they usually have. And if he dose have them their barely noticable. Both of them are large and strong hunters and usually work alone unless with a mate (soap) and both seem to have a terminal case of RBF.

Price is a European bee eater. Their very Social little guys and are extremely fast. The colors aren't exactly tactical but I image he uses temp feather dye to darken his wings and feathers before going on an Op. European bee eaters are also extremely focused hunters, similar to Price.

Gaz is a Costas hummingbird because I think their adorable. But similar to the bee eater price is based off of their extremely fast and nimble, the pop of purple feathers mixed into military green and white wings is also something I'm obsessed with. Plus with his wings moving as fast as hummingbird wings do he shouldn't fall out of any (more) helicopters anytime soon

Roach would be a puffin. Their both weird little guys who like to get into strange shaped places. Ie: a hole in the wall. He'd probably pick away at some drywall and make a nest next to a gas line.

(I was so upset to learn his antenna aren't cannon) 😔

[world-fire-entity]

COTTAGECORE CORRUPTION

"Hey I love you"

*Gives you all my cottagecore corruption avatar concepts*

Lowkey, if you use/are inspired by this pretty please tag/credit me. Mainly tag me. I WANT THESE TO BE MADE SO INSANELY BAD AND I WANNA SEE THEM.

[VISUAL ID:

IMAGE 1: Human-Insert has Lily pad on top of its head as well as a frog buried into its neck, a frog buried into his arm, 4 frogs on top of each other buried into its stomach, a frog buried in its leg, and a frog climbing up its leg. END 1 IMAGE 2: Human-Insert with orange tree branches sprouting from various parts of it's body. It smells of Citrus. END 2 IMAGE 3: Human-Insert with Mushrooms growing out of its head, arms, and legs. END 3

IMAGE 4: Human-Insert with strawberry bush growing through a cavity in its abdomen and one growing my its left leg. A stray strawberry vine is covering its eye while fugly sonic the hedgehog, Jerry, and that bunny from snow white beg for food at its feet. END 4

IMAGE 5: Human-insert has a duck on its head, two baby ducks burying into its neck, three in its abdomen, one through its arm, one trying to climb its leg, and two trying to get in on this. END 5

IMAGE 6: Human-insert has flowers growing out of various cavities throughout its body. These flowers attract hummingbirds and bees. END 6 VISUAL ID END]

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 27TH, 2023 | Image IDs: Six photos of various insects on a red hummingbird feeder, starting with two photos of a red, black, beige, and yellow paper wasp with curved antennae by itself, before it is subsequently joined by a black and yellow mud dauber wasp with equally curved antennae, two black and yellow bumble bees, and a grey fly /End IDs.]

[tavolgisvist]

You Tell Me

When was that summer when the skies were blue? The bright red cardinal flew down from his tree You tell me When was that summer when it never rained? The air was buzzin' with the sweet old honey bee Let's see You tell me Were we there, was it real? Is it truly how I feel? Maybe You tell me Were we there, is it true? Was I really there with you? Let's see You tell me When was that summer of a dozen words? The butterflies and hummingbirds flew free Let's see You tell me Let's see You tell me

“I was really happy he [David Khane] let me include the count-in. It’s iconic.”

(Paul McCartney about You Tell Me recording)

A lovely sunny summer day. Once again, I was out at John’s house in Weybridge. <…> Around that time there was quite a spate of summer songs. ‘Daydream’ and ‘Summer in the City’ by The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Kinks’ ‘Sunny Afternoon’ – I think all those came out during the same year, 1966. We wanted to write something sunny. Both John and I had grown up while the music hall tradition was still very vibrant, so it was always in the back of our minds. There are lots of songs about the sun, and they make you happy: ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’ or ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’. It was now time for us to do ours. So we’ve got love and sun, what more do we want? ‘We take a walk, the sun is shining down / Burns my feet as they touch the ground’ – that was a nice memory of summer. ‘Then we’d lie beneath a shady tree / I love her and she’s loving me’. It’s really a very happy song.

(Paul McCartney about Good Day Sunshine (1966), The Lyrics, 2021)

There's that old Maurice Chevalier song from Gigi called 'I remember It Well', which goes, ‘We met at nine, we met at eight, I was on time, no, you were late / Ah, yes, I remember it well’. I love that. A great little routine. The man in the song doesn’t quite remember, but the woman does, and ‘You Tell Me’ is a little bit like that. This is just memory. Often I think, ‘Oh my God, I really met Elvis Presley. I was really in his house, and it was a moment in time that really happened.’ That’s all there is to it. It just happened. Sometimes I pinch myself and think, ‘Was I really on the same couch as Elvis, talking about this stuff?’ I want to remember it three hundred per cent more; I want to bring it back: ‘Were we there, was it real? / Is it truly how I feel? / Maybe / You tell me’. <…> Because Linda’s father had a place in the Hamptons, I started going out there with her. That’s way over forty years ago – could be over fifty. I think that’s also where I wrote this, sometime in the early 2000s, and perhaps where the line about the red cardinal came from too, since you see them out there. ‘When was that summer of a dozen words?’ When everything’s going really well, nobody needs to talk, so you may just be sitting around with someone and reading books, or reading a newspaper, and you hardly even speak because there’s no need to; you’re in such a comfortable situation. ‘When was that summer when it never rained?’ I like that I’m not even going to try and remember what year it was. I remember hearing a story in the 1960s, when everyone was looking towards India and Indian mysticism, of some guy who was visiting a friend, and he came into the room and just sat down in a corner, and they didn’t speak. The idea was they were such good friends that they wouldn’t speak until someone had something to say. It wouldn’t just be, ‘What did you think of the football the other day?’ They were absolutely in each other’s presence, not needing to say anything. When they spoke it had to be meaningful. I liked the image of the peacefulness in that room. David Gilmour and Paul Weller, a couple of musicians whose opinion I value, independently sent me messages to say, ‘Wow, I like that one’ – to say that this song was one of their favourites of mine. Your main feedback is generally from critics, so it’s nice to get responses from people who’ve heard the song, especially real musicians, and were affected enough that they can be bothered to actually write to you. These days, it’s a message on your phone; there aren’t many people now who would sit down with beautiful old Basildon Bond stationery and expand it a bit. I don’t do too much letter writing myself anymore, but I have to admit I do like handwriting. I enjoyed being taught it at school, and I had a ‘proper’ way of handwriting. I miss the old stationery. I love the civility of letter writing. George Martin always wrote a letter to thank me for his birthday gift. We’d done ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ together, so I would always send a birthday bottle of wine, and he would handwrite me a very elegant note. It was always a delight. In fact, I’ve kept most of them. George’s widow, Lady Judy Martin, has the same sensibility. It was very much what you did when I was growing up, but also, a certain class did it. I don’t know of many of my working-class friends in the street who did it, but my family did, and I had friends later, who lived in places like Hampstead, who would open their mail in the morning and answer it. They had one of those little envelope slitters, and they would be quite organised: ‘Dear Henry, What a surprise to hear from you. I was thinking of you only the other day . . .’ I like the civility of that. You know, the working-class equivalent of letters was the postcard. You used to write and try to be amusing. That’s when you could say things like, ‘The air was buzzing with the sweet old honeybee’. Now we have Instagram, but the postcard was the Instagram of its day.

(Paul McCartney about You Tell Me (2007), The Lyrics, 2021)

Lying behind the phrase ‘We’re on our way home’ is less the literal sense of going back to London, but more about trying to get in touch with the people we once were. The postcard sending does have a very literal feel, though. Whenever Linda and I went away, we would buy lots of postcards and send them to all our friends. John was also a great postcard sender, so you’d get some great stuff from him.

(Paul McCartney about Two Of Us (1969), The Lyrics, 2021)

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Animal of the day: Snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth! (Hemaris diffinis) The clearwing hummingbird moth is a North American species of moth, inhabiting Canada and some parts of the United States! It uses its long proboscis to sip sweet nectar from flowers and has a bumblebee-like coloration, leading gardeners to sometimes believe that they are looking at a bumblebee instead of a moth! It even emits an audible humming sound with its wings, much like bees and of course, their namesake, the hummingbirds! The larvae of this species enjoy plants such as honeysuckle and dogbane! Image source: https://www.hummingbirdcentral.com/hummingbird-moth.htm

[rederiswrites]

Just showed the bestie that lovely photo of a hummingbird and several honey bees.

"The only problem with this image is that you showed it to me in 2024," he said.

I took a second to understand that he meant it could easily be fake.

All images now are inherently suspect. AI and photo manipulation have reached a stage where you cannot trust images. Even videos.

I remember sitting at lunch in high school, round about 1998, and talking about some distant day when that would be true, and how utterly society-shaking that would be. It was a light conversation, but not really for me. I meant it. It would be bad. It would erode trust massively.

And here we are.

[proton-wobbler]

Semifinals, Poll 7

Short-tailed Pygmy-tyrant vs Oriental Bay-Owl

sources under the cut

Short-tailed Pygmy-tyrant (Myiornis ecaudatus)

"Minute size and compact body give it a unique appearance, in some ways looking more like a bumblebee than a bird." - eBird

eBird sightings: 7,276; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

This species is the smallest songbird, and one of the smallest birds in general. Typical weight is 4.2 g - when compared to some hummingbirds, which weigh 3.0 g at their heaviest. So many descriptions of this bird say that it seems to resemble a beetle or bee rather than a bird, and that it's calls and song sound more like crickets or frogs.

Oriental Bay-Owl (Phodilus badius)

"In breeding season, once described as surpassing all other owls in [the] appalling nature of its cries, even sounding like half a dozen cats fighting." - Birds of the World

eBird sightings: 1,292; IUCN Redlist Rating: Least Concern

This owl is a generalist species, feeding on small rodents, bats, birds, snakes, frogs, lizards and various insects such as beetles, grasshoppers, and spiders. Their short, rounded wings help them to navigate their habitat, allowing them to quickly and quietly bank through tight trees and other vegetation to capture their prey.

Images: Flycatcher (Henry Cook); Owl (Wich'yanan Limparungpatthanakij)

[princess-of-the-corner]

CC!NextGen

Nijiko Shouji-Tokoyami

Not sure if you thought about her more, but I woke up today with more thoughts, so thought I’d share!

(Again, you can take or leave whatever)

First, I saw some hummingbird species I thought Nijiko could be based on specifically:

Indigo capped Humming bird

Violet Bellied Hummingbird

Purple throated Carib

Costa’s hummingbird (male image specific)

Blue headed hummingbird

Antillean crested hummingbird (male image specific)

Bee Hummingbird (smallest species ever)

Black Jacobin

Purple-Crowned Fairy

Amethyst throated sunangel

The Bee Hummingbird is impossibly tiny, and the one I was thinking of, but I also like the idea that Nijiko is just a mishmash of all hummingbirds. (Her name, Nijiko, means “rainbow child”, so, ya know. Bright colours!) Though the Antillean Crested gave me what I imagine her head feathers look like.

The other bit was, I think mentioned before about her parents? How dad was dead, but mom may or may not have been, and if she WAS alive, that wasn’t a good thing? I think I had a half-baked idea that Nijiko was, like, reverse Hawks? Her mom isn’t a “criminal”, but a member of the HPSC (or whatever holdovers from the “old guard” by NextGen) who is … not great? And her live-in boyfriend, who is a criminal (by technicality) would be Nijiko’s dad. He’d be hiding out with his government girlfriend, who keeps him from getting arrested, but keeps asking him to do stuff for her. Dad would have some kind of bird related Quirk, while mom … I don’t know, honestly. Something with light? Colours? Enhanced metabolism? 

Anyway, I think my thought was, Mom wants to turn Nijiko into the next Hawks, indoctrination style. Dad is like “oh, fuck that”, and takes off with Nijiko, but either got attacked by the Mom, or got caught up in something and dies. His body and toddler Nijiko are found by Fumi, who takes Nijiko into protective custody and eventually adopts her. Mom, for whatever reason, isn’t connected to Nijiko legally, and decides to stay away until she can figure out a plan that doesn’t reveal the fact she wanted to turn her kid into a child soldier.

Like I said, the thoughts are a little jumbled, and if you can figure out something more coherent, I beg you, go for it. I was half-asleep when thinking about this, I’m not sure what sense it makes.

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Hm! I’m down with going for a mix of hummingbirds (after all, there’s canon precedent as Tsu is a mix of all frogs).

Also I have thoughts on it because yeah the Commission needs a replacement Hawks and making kids from scratch is def the next step after Nagant’s base recruitment and Hawks’ ‘essentially kidnapped’ versions, but when you said ‘reverse Hawks+Mom in the Commission’ my first thought was about the semi-joke I made about something in Hawks’ contract of the Commission having legal rights to his DNA.

[ecologicalissue]

Charleston Lake

Charleston Lake is located in South Eastern Ontario, just north east of Gananoque. The lake is carved out of the Frontenac Axis, a relatively narrow extension of the Canadian Shield bedrock which dominates the landscape of Northern Ontario. The lake is the principal watershed for the Gananoque River, and boasts prime fishing locations. Charleston Lake Provincial Park is located on the shores of the lake, and offers camping, hiking, boating, fishing and interpretive sessions. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_Lake That was just the beginning of this Series on Charleston Lake so don't turn that Dial we are just getting started. On Charleston Lake there is a lot of Species Diversity, the following is just a few examples: Black Rat Snakes

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantherophis_obsoletus

Chipmunks (Eastern Chipmunks / Tamias striatus)

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk

Squirrels

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel

Black Cats in the woods

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat

Leopard Frogs

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_frog

Fish:

Lake trout

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout

Bass (Fish) (No Image Available)

(Fish Concluded)

Dragon Flies

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly

Turtles

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle

Crayfish

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish

Bees

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee

Seaweed

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed

Birch Trees

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch

Wasps

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp

Eagles

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle

Hummingbirds

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird

Spiders

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider

Geese

Guess the Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose

Ducks

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck

Swans

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan

These Species are key Parts of the Ecosystem and Biosphere at Charleston Lake. This Blog series will continue tomorrow when we cover Abiotic Components of the Biosphere & some concerns of the ecology of Charleston Lake.

[anthologiemystika]

Sonoran Desert Plants & Their Magic

Creosote Bush

Larrea tridentata

A.k.a Stinkweed, Chaparral, and Hediondilla

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Creosote is a prominent plant in the southwestern portion of North America, it's range includes the Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts.

Correspondences

• Element: Water

• Powers: Permanence, longevity, healthy isolation (living alone with a purpose i.e introspection or healing), developing a "tough skin", overcoming challenges, logic, reasoning, order

Mesquite Tree

Prosopis velutina

A.k.a Velvet Mesquite

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Velvet Mesquite is found naturally, and plays an important ecological role, in the Sonoran Desert. They grow 20-50 feet in height, or more in well watered areas, less in dry grasslands. The roots far extend the height of the tree, as such Velvet Mesquite can access water sources that are deeper than most plants can reach.

Correspondences

Planet: Saturn

Element: Water, Earth

Powers: Healing, protection, cleansing, purification

Chuparosa

Justica californica

A.k.a Hummingbird Bush

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Chuparosa is a flowering bush native to the deserts of Southern California, Arizona, and Northern Mexico. Chuparosa and Chiporosa are both colloquial Spanish terms for "hummingbird". For a short while this shrub produces succulent leaves, it then loses those leaves and grows plentiful tubular flowers. These flowers are generally shades of bright red, but can also be found in shades of yellow. Hummingbirds frequent this low bush to feed on the sweet nectar hidden in the flowers.

Correspondences

Planet: Venus

Powers: Beauty, self-esteem, romance, sexual energy, love, new beginnings, positivity

Brittle Bush

Encelia farinosa

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Brittle bush is a rather common little shrub found in Northern Mexico, Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, and Utah. It's name comes from the brittleness of the stems. A Spanish name for this plant is "incienso" because the dried sap was burned by the early Spanish missions in the New World as incense.

Correspondences

Planetary: Sun

Element: Earth

Powers: Healing, cleansing, luck, empathy, friendship, protection, banishing sickness

Desert Lavender

Hyptis emoryi

A.k.a Bee Sage or Bushmints

Image source

Desert Lavender is found in Arizona, Nevada, California, and Northwestern Mexico. It is a medium to tall perennial shrub that is favored by honeybees in early spring. The violet-blue flowers are profuse along the main stem and side branches.

Native American tribes like the Akimel O'Odham saw this plant as a "pure and holy plant that cleanses all evils away from one's spirit". It's traditional Native American uses include smudge wands that were burned to cleanse the body of diseases and stop heavy menstruation and internal bleeding.

Correspondences

Element: Earth

Animal: Honeybees

Powers: Spirits, purity, banishing, warding, psychic energy & ability, cleansing, protection

Ephedra

Ephedra fasciculata

A.k.a Mormon Tea or Arizona Ephedra

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This plant is found mainly in the Mojave, Colorado, and Sonoran deserts. It thrives in creosote bush scrub. Historically it has been used as an alternative to coffee.

Correspondences

Element: Air

Planet: Earth

Powers: Protection, healing, positive energy, cleansing, friendship, happiness, purity, alertness & focus

Yellow Bells

Tecoma stans

A.k.a Yellow Trumpetbush

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Yellow Bells is an attractive ornamental vine native to the Americas, and is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands. It is hardy in nature and can be grown nearly anywhere, becoming an invasive species in some areas. It's large yellow flowers attract many creatures such as hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies.

Correspondences

Element: Earth

Powers: Resilience, dominance, strength, healing, cleansing, banishment, cursing, retaliation

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[alcnfr]

A Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) and some Western Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) getting in each other's way at the nectar feeder this morning. ( Seldom truly like an image, but the 2 bees with the hummingbird, all in flight, is a real fave at least for now...lol)

[learnwithmearticles]

Butterfly Weed

Butterfly Weed, two things that are appreciable on their own as well as together. This is the common name of Asclepias tuberosa, a perennial native to New Jersey and a beautiful addition to a garden. Keep reading to learn some specifics about this beauty.

[Image I.D. A close-up photo of a Butterfly Milkweed in bloom. The flowers have five close-together orange petals and the plant’s green stems and flowers can be seen behind them. End I.D.]

As a perennial, Butterfly Weed, also called Butterfly Milkweed, needs only to be planted once, and will then be able to re-flower every year. It blooms in late spring to early summer, around June to August. 

Along with being a native species to the east and southwest of North America, this flower has many environmental benefits.

Butterfly Weed flowers are a useful source of nectar for many pollinators, including butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. Monarch butterflies can also use the leaves as a place to lay eggs.

This plant is tolerant to drought, and it grows deep roots that are very beneficial to strengthening soil against erosion. 

The best way to include these in a garden is to start from seeds. They need about three months of cold temperatures without moisture, so planting in the fall is ideal. They might take more than a year or two to bloom, but once established, they can be left alone. Additionally, they are not the favoured nourishment for deer or rabbits, so they are likely to be left untouched. They might occasionally require watering to remove aphids, though.

History Bit

Another interesting fact about this plant is its historical use as herbal medicine. 

Reportedly, several Native American communities would use the roots of Butterfly Weed to treat respiratory illnesses like pleurisy and bronchitis. This is why this plant is also sometimes called pleurisy root. During the 1918 influenza pandemic, pleurisy root was one of a few medicinal plants used to help patients. Physicians at the time reported that it was very useful for chest pains and serious coughs.

Additionally, in some Native American communities, seed pods were sometimes boiled to be eaten, and the soft parts spun to make candlewicks.

Ultimately, Butterfly Weed is not only a gorgeous flower to have in a garden, it also comes with many benefits to soil and wildlife. If you’re looking to diversify your yard in the east or southwest of North America, this plant is a very good choice.

Additional Resources

1. https://www.jerseyyards.org/plant/asclepias-tuberosa/

2. https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/asclepias_tuberosa.shtml#

3.https://www.tnnursery.net/blogs/tn-nursery-blog/the-history-and-benefits-of-butterfly-weed#

4. https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/butterflyweed/

5. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cpb1958/48/7/48_7_1017/_pdf

[world-fire-entity]

Corruption is so Cottage-core aesthetic #1

"Hey! I like you!"

*Gives you two of my corruption cottagecore concepts*

(I'm gonna post more soon cuz I love em)

[VISUAL ID IMAGE 1: Human-insert has a duck on its head, two baby ducks burying into its neck, three in its abdomen, one through its arm, one trying to climb its leg, and two trying to get in on this. (One of the two trying to get in on this is eating a bit of the human-insert) (It doesn't mind though) END 1 IMAGE 2: Human-insert has flowers growing out of various cavities throughout its body. These flowers attract hummingbirds and bees. It's very buzzy around this avatar END 2 VISUAL ID END]

Credit/Tag me if you're inspired/use it. Mostly tag me though at least in the comments (I RLLY wanna see this happen).

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JULY 31ST, 2023 | Image IDs: Four photos of some black and yellow bumble bees drinking from a red hummingbird feeder /End IDs.]