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  1. #caterpillar #NativePlants #Iowa

    On the #DailyWalk, I checked out a few different Swamp Milkweed plants that I had noticed in bloom a few weeks ago.

    It looks like deer have chomped the young seedpods. Definitely not good for increasing the number of plants.

    On the good side, I found another monarch caterpillar.

  2. #Caterpillar #Butterflies #NativePlants

    On today’s #DailyWalk, I took along the loppers and a handsaw. Part of my trail system goes across an area that’s often too soggy to mow, and that area needed some clearing before I can go through again with the tractor/mower.

    Anyway, there’s swamp milkweed in the swampy area 🤔🤠 And on one plant I found a monarch butterfly caterpillar.

  3. Melloona – where things grow a little differently

    • ♥ ! • Happy Fantasy Faire • ! ♥ • It’s that time of the year again. Every year I think I know what to expect, and every year it still feels a bit unreal when everything finally comes together. What starts as scattered ideas becomes a world of its own. This year, Luna and I sponsored and built Melloona. Melloona is a quiet, curious realm where the familiar turns gently impossible. Expect wild colors, vines and of course, melons. It doesn’t shout, it hums softly and […]

    alruniaahn.wordpress.com/2026/

  4. Spotted this splendid #caterpillar this morning (two pics - one with a pink flower head also in shot to give a sense of scale and one with the caterpillar the sole focus).
    #photography #nature #insects #LifeCycles

  5. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Euthrix potatoria ✧

    Euthrix potatoria, commonly known as the drinker, is an orange-brown moth in the family Lasiocampidae. The species' common and scientific names derive from the larva's supposed drinking of drops of dew. It is found in Europe, most frequently found in marshy places, fens and riversides but may also be seen in drier, grassy ter...

    #Lasiocampidae #caterpillar #Europe #Estonia #Keila #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthrix_

  6. Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

    Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

    Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

    Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

    Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

    But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

    #Equisetum #Spring