David Leszcynski (he/him)Weβve let our #CommonMilkweed go wild this year. We were starting to lose hope about seeing #monarchs but suddenly we now have 14 #caterpillars and have seen one adult today in #Indianapolis #Indiana.
So awesome to see them visit us!
Ele Willoughby, PhDMore of my pollinator garden work in progress about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems.
Iβm thinking about a variety of futures possible for pollination and pollinators. Planting native plants wherever you are can foster these species on whom we and our ecosystems depend.
#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollination #commonMilkweed #echinecea #monarchButterfly #EasternSwallowtail #wildColumbine #CanadaColumbine #ecosystems #butterflies #nativeBee #MastoArt
shannonthe best example of a milkweed that was top-pruned and how it is growing a huge amount of new leaves!
(if you look closely you can see where it was pruned, and how there are three new "branches" of leaves growing from that spot!)
#commonmilkweed #rewilding #nativeplants
(if you look closely you can see where it was pruned, and how there are three new "branches" of leaves growing from that spot!)
#commonmilkweed #rewilding #nativeplants
Hunter Lindsay#Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed, is a food source for many flies, beetles, ants, bees, wasps, and butterflies (including Monarchs!).
#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower
new-to-me moth sightings today, on the common milkweed.
#naturalist #nature #commonmilkweed #nativeplants #moths #pollinators
#naturalist #nature #commonmilkweed #nativeplants #moths #pollinators
CambirdsongβοΈ Sunshine sparkles on the water
π¦ββ¬ Birding
π± Wildflowers
#ThreeGoodThings #wildflowers #CommonMilkweed #StarkBeauty #SolaceInNature #creationstruck
The #InserttAnInvert2024 prompt this week is eggs. The suggestion was to highlight how some species (mainly arachnids) take great care of eggs, carrying them around until they hatch, I thought I would talk about the opposite: the pitfalls of laying eggs & bailing, but worse of having a specific host for eggs like milkweed. Female monarchs lay a single eggs, usually on the underside of a young π§΅1
#printmaking #sciart #MastoArt #monarchButterfly #insects #commonMilkweed #ecology
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CarpingdiemMy local library has planted #nativeplants around their building. There have about 2 dozen #commonmilkweed plants near the back door, which are hosting these #redmilkweedbeetles (here #makingmorebeetles). #nature #photography #insects #spring
Nonbinary-Naturalist- it/skullSome baby large milkweed bugs I took pictures of on September 16th 2020, in Pennsylvania! I was just going through my tumblr blog and looking for more old pictures I haven't put on iNaturalist yet :)
They came to the common milkweed in our yard there for the two(?) years since I noticed it and let it grow. I always loved watching them, I called them my babies :)
(Edit: BTW all my photos are public domain unless I specify otherwise, you are encouraged to save / share this wherever you want :) )
#bugs #insects #bugphotos #insectphotos #babybugs #largemilkweedbugs #milkweed #commonmilkweed #asclepiassyriaca #NonbinaryNaturalisttakespictures #wildlife #photography #Oncopeltusfasciatus #Oncopeltus
