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  1. #Autumn is an important season in temperate climates, necessary for numerous organisms to prepare for #winterdiapause. I here show #floweringplants on a dry #meadow in #Berlin in mid-#October 2025: #Achillea #millefolium, #Echium #vulgare, #Berteroa #incana, #Jacobaea #vulgaris. They serve as last #nectarsource for various insects. But what effect does #globalwarming actually have on autumn (further reading)?
    ©#StefanFWirth

    F.reading
    A.S.Gallinat (2015)
    doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.01

    #Photos
    ©S F. W

  2. Hello #BloomScrolling enthusiasts. Here's what our hibiscus is showing now.

    Questions: What is eating the leaves? How do I help the plant without using pesticides? I've tried a soap solution, but if it did work it was short lived or just washed off by the rains.

    #Flowers #FloweringPlants #PlantPests #hibiscus

  3. We love this maple for its spring and fall dramatic colors, and, of course, for the summer shade and a place for my kids and now grandkids to climb. However, I doubt many notice the tiny flowers on the tree this time of year. Hard to capture with a cellphone camera. #trees #FloweringPlants #Maples

  4. Some years, there is very little dogwood fruit, and the squirrels go nuts over it. This year, there is more than an abundance, and the squirrels are meh....#FloweringPlants #dogwoods #fruits #squirrels

  5. CW: We've all heard about the insect apocalypse and here's a personal experience of mine with it

    I lived in UCLA married student housing on sawtelle until around 1969. These were old garden style apartments, now torn down and replaced, and had a ton of lantana hedges.

    When the lantana was in bloom it was continually surrounded by clouds of one particular kind of moth. I still live in Los Angeles and there's still lantana everywhere but I can't remember the last time I saw one of those moths.

    From wiki I think they were
    Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, which is a southern California native. The wiki page doesn't say if it's endangered or not, but it's certainly gone from Los Angeles in historic quantities.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantan

    #LosAngeles #LA #Lantana #SouthernCalifornia #Insects #InsectApocalypse #Extinction #LantanophagaPusillidactyla #Moths #Mothtodon #UCLA #MarriedStudentHousing
    #Flowers #FloweringPlants #MassExtinction #SawtelleBlvd

  6. CW: We've all heard about the insect apocalypse and here's a personal experience of mine with it

    I lived in UCLA married student housing on sawtelle until around 1969. These were old garden style apartments, now torn down and replaced, and had a ton of lantana hedges.

    When the lantana was in bloom it was continually surrounded by clouds of one particular kind of moth. I still live in Los Angeles and there's still lantana everywhere but I can't remember the last time I saw one of those moths.

    From wiki I think they were
    Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, which is a southern California native. The wiki page doesn't say if it's endangered or not, but it's certainly gone from Los Angeles in historic quantities.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantan

    #LosAngeles #LA #Lantana #SouthernCalifornia #Insects #InsectApocalypse #Extinction #LantanophagaPusillidactyla #Moths #Mothtodon #UCLA #MarriedStudentHousing
    #Flowers #FloweringPlants #MassExtinction #SawtelleBlvd

  7. This big-ass succulent near 50th Street and Kansas Ave in Los Angeles looks like a cactus but it's actually some kind of Euphorbia. It's possible to see this any time because euphorbias don't have spines like cactuses, but the difference is especially clear when they're flowering, which this sweetie pie is doing and how!

    Euphorbia flowers are really distinct and so are cactus flowers and they look nothing like each other. And there were so many bees!.

    #StreetSucculents
    #LosAngeles
    #Euphorbia
    #Cactus
    #ConvergentEvolution
    #50thStreet
    #KansasAvenue
    #Flowers
    #FloweringPlants

  8. My upstairs office is filled with the scent of chocolate covered cherries... my Hoya carnosa "Krinkle 8" is blooming again, and its fragrance is delicious! More intense in the evenings, because hoya blooms are pollinated by nocturnal moths.

    I potted this krinkle8 from two cuttings about 18 months ago. It has grown. Each thick green leaf has two rows of dimples, often 8 of them hence the common name. Those pompom blooms! 🙌
    #houseplants #hoyas #FloweringPlants #Krinkle8 #hoya #IndoorGardening