BASIL and BELLIC ENCOUNTERS

& grounding news for today

Exuberance on Queen Anne's Lace, 

basil encounters, 

vanessas, and the bellic bug

Exuberance of pollinators

Basil encounters

Vanessa virginiensis
 on silphium perfoliatum

 And the Oncometopia orbona on silphium, once again, perfoliatum...
 

The shy broad-headed sharpshooter.
A leaf-hopper, suited in color, for our bellic world?...

All ID attempts continue to be, of course, mere approximations

BACKYARD WILDERNESS/ SELVA DE FUNDO DE QUINTAL

Snakes

Skinks with blue tails

Golden-headed flies

Deer

Racoons

Spiders and butterflies,

of course…

 

A juvenile, I think...

A blue-tailed five-lined one, also answering to Plestiodon fasciatus

A young buck by the iris, daily visitor, until hunted.

Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) in reproductive mode, and a fly.

A May study in form, Gold-headed snipe fly (Chrysopilus thoracicus)

Mischievous racoon, tipping garbage cans, eating bird food and feeders, finally caught on tape...by the living room window.

A Jumping Spider meets an Eastern-tailed Blue butterfly, on a Cup plant. Measuring about an inch, both have excellent, and highly specialized vision! (A Salticidae meets a Cupido comyntas on Silphium perfoliatum)

WORK IN PROGRESS

TRABALHANDO NA TRADUÇÃO DO PORTUGUES 

Cobras, lagartas de rabo azul, moscas de cabeça dourada, libelulas, abelhas, guaxinims, aranhas e borboletas…

Fabulous tiny skipper butterfly, on poisonous (to humans), ivy. (Poanes zabulon on Rhus radicans). Found in Maryland, and also in the Mata Atlantica,, in South America, in Brasil. TUNE IN.