NymphalidaeTrue Brushfoots (Longwings, Fritillaries, Milkweed, Admirals)Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Glanville Fritillary Butterfly Aphrodite Fritillary Butterfly Zebra Longwing Butterfly Leopard Lacewing Butterfly Monarch Butterfly Viceroy Butterfly Painted Lady Butterfly ...
Beginning in September and through the month of October is the best time of year to collect Common Milkweed seed pods. The packets are usually ripe, or near fully ripened, and many have already begun to split open. An easy way to separate the floss from the seeds is gently pop open the...
Colorful monarch butterfly on milkweed flowers Plastic bottles for recycling Green plant growing in asphalt Fresh black bear tracks on a dirt road Fire hydrant American Robin eating mountain ash berries An old abandoned wagon wheel Iris flower in the rain Baby robin bird in nest Kayaks on...
Calliteara horsfieldii (Mondulkiri, Cambodia) Calliteara horsfieldii (Bach Ma, Vietnam) yellow-based tussock moth Dasychira basiflava (Illinois, USA) milkweed tussock moth Euchaetes egle (Illinois, USA) banded tussock moth Halysidota tessellaris (Illinois, USA) banded tussock moth Halysidota...
Sear the ends of the cut stems over a flame to stop the milky sap from leaking out. Following the fabulous flowers, green fruits develop which rupture to reveal seeds with long, silvery-white, silky hairs reminiscent of its cousin, common milkweed. These are great to use in dried flower ...
Sear the ends of the cut stems over a flame to stop the milky sap from leaking out. Following the fabulous flowers, green fruits develop which rupture to reveal seeds with long, silvery-white, silky hairs reminiscent of its cousin, common milkweed. These are great to use in dried flower ...
Stems to the left of the blocks are 7″ sections of swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) from my garden (I also like bee balm). These smaller nests seem to attract Georgia mason bees (Osmia georgica) and my favorite wasp, Trypoxylon collinum (the male stays home to guard the nest). ...
A gorgeous western milkweed…cousin to our Common Milkweed Sparky scanning the rolling prairies of central North Dakota. Ethanol subsidies and governmental mandates on ethanol usage have created high corn prices and the result has been that many farmers in this dryer part of North Dakota have conv...
Seasonal Patterns of Leaf Photosynthesis after Insect Herbivory on Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca: Reflection of a Physiological Cost of Reproduction, ... After defoliation occurs leaf photosynthetic rate (Pn) can increase, decrease or remain unchanged relative to control uninjured leaves depending ...
Milkweed, Ascelepius syr- ica (L.) 7-α-L-rhamnosyl-6- Agasicles sp. (Nov.) Chrysomelid beetle Feeding stimulant Alligatorweed, Alternath- methoxyluteolin era phylloxeroides, Amaranthaceae p-hydroxyacetophenone,o-hy- Scolytus multristriatus (Mar- ...