#caterpillar summer

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This queen butterfly caterpillar was tiny, as you can see by its aphid neighbors. Caterpillars and aphids all enjoyed the milkweed vine in the backyard.

Cochise County, Arizona, August 2024.

[batshaped]

appreciation post for how i draw this chrysalis in my comic

to me from me thanks you're welcome

[vandaliatraveler]

Photos from a lovely, post-Debby weekend in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Good, strong breeze to drive out the heat and keep the sky vibrant and constantly on the move. The narrow-leaved gentian (Gentiana linearis) is now at peak bloom in the mountains. This enchanting perennial loves damp mountain seeps and bog edges and is pollinated primarily by bumblebees, which are adept at prying open the flowers or just chewing through them if all else fails. The pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) is also in bloom - my mom used these delicate perennials in her dried-flower arrangements.

[kthemes]

❘❙❚ ™🐛⨳ ❛ ✎ ⧅ ˳ ♩▚

❘❙❚ ™🍓⨳ ❛ ✎ ⧅ ˳ ♩▚

[veryluckyclovers]

I wanna be in sunshine land

[plains-flora]

july 26, 2018 // spurge hawk moth caterpillar

[inthecityofgoodabode]

August 2024: A Little Bit Of Everything

Monday harvest:

Tuesday harvest:

Seeds we collected from this year's leeks:

Wednesday harvest:

Curbside find of the week. These 100 gallon stock tanks run for around 130 bucks & this one was free. We're going to use it to make a container version of a hugelkultur bed:

Friday harvest:

These are some of the summer squash that volunteered in our front bed. They appear to be a hybrid of lemon squash & either straightneck or crookneck squash:

Tersa sphinx caterpillar:

Seen while walking:

Found while walking - two rocks... one obviously evil:

We have volunteer pumpkins in the front bed starting to make:

A volunteer crookneck squash from the front bed:

Sunday harvest:

I felt something on my back & snapped this photo:

And here it is biting me:

Out of focus shot of a hummingbird feeding at our chive blossoms:

My queen planted some lemongrass today to take the place of the Bells of Ireland that had gone to seed:

[lose-your-fuckin-illusion]

~summer vibes~

Timothy Olyphant as 'Brat' in Advice from a caterpillar, 1999

[homemadehorrors]

[lost-harts]

July 2024

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[almostshygarden]

Feliz dia de la primavera! Les regalo esta oruga repartiendo flores y poemas!

[sandpaperoctopi]

they are back

[marshroom580]

begging nathan summers to just wear normal casual clothes for once PLEASE HE COULD BE SO HOT IF HE JUST WORE NORMAL CLOTHES PLEASE PLEASE

[pomelo0o]

September Morning Glory 🐛

[the-acid-pear]

Well. I'm going to actually go rewatch the human centipede 3 right now. Because as I said extensively the mention of centipedes and diabetes got be excited. And now I NEED to witness a live castration. I'll try to not liveblog least I hit post limit and my mutuals take me to the back to shoot me.