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| Eastern tailed blue on golden ragwort, Oxford, MD, 4/14/17 |
Tiny
blues entered my fields of vision, oh, about three years ago. Since then, I discovered some of their
favorite grasses, some of their flowers, and to my joy, one of their secret sleeping
places - always sleeping upside down.
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| Cupido comyntas, Eastern Shore, Maryland 4/14/17 |
Handed
down, generation to generation, and built into their tiny spherical dna's, they
come back to roost in the same exact coordinates of a blade of grass.
Not a particular native host plant roosting spot - it is just a patch of overgrown and not mowed grasses, with some perennial flowering
weeds,in between.
A matter of memory direction to sunlight, a built-in compass,a friendly place, I guess.
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| Eastern tailed blue on Blue ajuga |
Ephemeral
and tiny, they live for hours, for a day, or for weeks… They seek tiny flowers, like the early blooming golden ragwort, now renamed packera aurea.
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| Easten tailed blue on golden ragwort |
Like the
birds, they cast shadows on me now. Not
from above, but from the tiny below.
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| A tiny blue on tiny yellow |
The planes
of visions.
