#WingedWednesday #FediversalPictures #DaintySulfur
The teensy #butterfly that is the Dainty Sulfur breeds on a host plant that makes humans cringe and cuss: Spanish Needles. In defense of growing Spanish Needles in my yard, it's a great security plant to grow if you have a problem with prowlers. You've heard of paint tagging an offender, I'm sure--but the seeds of the Spanish Needles hold fast to clothing and are a bitch to remove, so it performs very much like tagging a perp. Not to mention how CUTE these li'l guys are! When they flock around a growth of Spanish Needles, the bunch of 'em looks like yellow glitter.
#WingedWednesday #CommonBuckeye #Bloomscrolling #FediversalPictures
A few years back, the #Common Buckeye had a huge baby boom over here. Not so much last year even though I have an ample supply of their host plant, Lanceleaf Plantain. They do host on other plants besides that, though. Here's one feasting on the flowers of a Monarch's favorite host plant, the #Honeyvine. YES Honeyvine IS a milkweed!
#WingedWednesday
Although #MonarchButterflies have had waning activity here, other butters have been making up much of the difference. Case in point, the overwintering Eastern Black Swallowtails that have come bustin' out all over.
This dear girl was released while the peach tree was in full bloom.
#EasternBlackSwallowtail #Bloomscrolling #FediversalPictures
Absolutely!!
Anybody who has gotten even one Hornworm on their homegrown tomato vine knows what a wrecking crew it can be!
Well, it's one of the reasons I never grow just one tomato--when they morph, they turn into a hummigbird moth, and they're just fascinating. #Hawkmoth #Hummingbirdmoth #SphinxMoth (the one in the pic isn't from a Tomato Hornworm but is similar)
Just only now finding my other monster caterpillar (#Monarch) JAWZ!
That other one I named Igor. #MyPhoto #MyWork
I did not know that. With that being the case, I'm putting in a good word vote for First Men in the Moon!
When it's late in the migration season and the Monarch cats I've taken into protective custody achieve adulthood, I know that I can give them a shortcut to the late migration route, since I know where it is already, and so when there's frost in the forecast, I know where they'll still be safe close to that route and provide limo service there.
Photo shows a Monarch perched on the backrest of the passenger side of the car, taking in the sights through the window.
#MonarchMonday
In a previous post I did say that there were not quite twice the number of Monarchs overwintering in Mexico than there were last year; The World Wildlife Fund has been keeping track, and here's their chart, which is still alarming even so.
There'll be more on the topic April 20th on "60 Minutes" when Monarch Watch retiree, Chip Taylor, gets interviewed.
I've been behaving myself on this instance so far, but be ye warned that when it's Caturday, I'll post caterpillar pictures. They're cats too.
This pic is of a 5th instar cat eating the peel off of a seed pod of a milkweed vine called Honeyvine. Too often it's not recognized as a milkweed and is removed under the belief that it is "invasive". It is not--its "problem" is that the seeds are highly vigorous and they don't all emerge at the same time; the ones that delay, or emerge during the pre-fall emergence event, give the impression that they've come up from neighboring vines. They do NOT.
This is a somewhat side-view of a Monarch egg in the process of hatching, so if you look closely, you can see that this, too, looks like just a black head up top but you can also see a tiny white patch where the mandibles are--this kid is getting a grip on a shell ridge to chew on to break out.
This is a pic of a Monarch egg that's fully ripe and ready to hatch, with the caterpillar's tiny black head at the top of the egg, as you're looking down on it.
Those migrants haven't reached the north central part of Oklahoma yet but according to Journey North, they've appeared in the southern part of the state at this point...so here's a pic of past Monarch activity here. This is a portrait of a newly hatched bebby.
I dug 'way back to 2023 to recall the error messages I was originally getting on QOTO and Dr. Freemo was telling me I was the only one encountering them. It was a Rate Limit error, and the reason for that problem was that I was going straight to the Federated tab instead of the Home tab (the equivalent would be the Friendica "Conversations on this and other servers" circular tab, then choosing Other Servers. It turned out that I was indeed exceeding the Qoto rate limit by accessing the Fediverse. Dr. Freemo fixed that, once we nailed down what it was, but I've been getting the 500 error ever since. Hope this helps.
Sorry but I don't trust email because of the #RIME Space Moose. Everyone else has a bit-bucket, but RIME has Space Moose.
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Let's continue this conversation by #SnailMail please.
#BBS #Compuserve #SubGeniusSIG
Compuserve
SIG: Witsig
Hey, did you guys know that the guy doing Picture Pages on Captain Kangaroo is also selling computers? The TI99/4A!
Who was accused of refusing a lewd bit
Benny Hill said "'Twasn't me!"
Red Skelton shouted "SEE!
I admit it was me--yes, I DOOD IT!
