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#201 |
Slapping, Swearing, Itching, Scratching Mosquito Bait
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: pennsylvania,usa
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New York Ironweed, Vernonia noveboracensis, native to most of the eastern US. It gets really tall, at least eight feet or so.
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#202 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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I'm in trouble. I bought some New York Iron weed and it was in bloom in a pot, and was about two feet tall. I didn't bother to check final heights and put it near the front of my perennial bed. I guess I better move it. The butterflies love the nectar and my yellow bear caterpillars definitely favor it and the blue mistflower over all the other plants I find them on.
Is it my imagination or do most skippers look very much alike on their ventral wings? I've tried to ID a bunch of them from photos, comparing to my field guide, and a lot of them look the same to me. ![]() We still have monarch caterpillars here in NC, so hopefully they will not be migrating before Earl and Fiona have passed.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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#203 |
Salamander
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Texas
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I have two kinds of ironweed, V. Lindheimeri and V. Baldwinii. Butterflies do like them when they're blooming. The V. Baldwinii spreads a lot underground...a tendency to keep in mind on some ironweed. The second kind only spreads by seed...I THINK. Lately, I keep seeing skippers on them. The look-alike skipper problem...I think everybody has that problem. And Texas seems to have tons of different kinds, so most of the time I don't worry about ID. Certain skippers whose caterpillars I've raised from time to time are more familiar to me when I see the adult.
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#204 |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I spotted this guy flying and fluttering around--it was going so fast, I'm lucky it stopped long enough for me to get a clear shot.
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#205 |
Grub
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Mokena IL
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Talk about weird weather...
I was out putting up my Christmas lights (nice weather...so I decided to at least get them up outside before the snow/cold hits) outside yesterday...I live near Chicago... and I see a flutter out of the corner of my eye... I chased it.. It was a Buckeye... I mean... a buckeye? in November? In Chicago? I don't think I have every seen butterflies this late (except for Mourning Cloak) in the season around here... |
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#206 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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I must say that I've been spoiled--I could go for an extended Fall...every year! ...Followed by a short winter. ![]() |
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