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

MOUNTAIN MINT

Os polinizadores 

Enquanto o mundo se incendeia

de uma calamidade a outra

meu privilégio de vida polinizante

na hortelã do dia a dia

 

 

The mint

The world burns

calamity by calamity

and I in capture

of daily pollinators of native mint

A planta uma hortelã nativa das montanhas daqui, mas se adapta bem aos solos argilosos e molhados da costa mais baixa (Pycnanthemum)