Tuesday, June 19, 2012

gap-toothed innocence, gratuitous purple, and an orgy

I’ve been pretty busy lately, and I haven’t gone as far afoot as I might like, but geez, there’s still plenty going on within sight of the house. There’s the brown-eyed susan update, for one:

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june 16

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Two days later. Someone’s been chomping on a petal. This shot reminds me of a six-year old who’s just lost her two front teeth, but gives you just as big a grin as ever.

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One day later and our six-year old is a lanky adolescent.

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Little sis, the next one up, gazes up with envy at her glamorous sister.

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Plenty more where that came from.

Spiderwort buds are really…I don’t know…

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…decadent, I think. So floppy! Although the one on the right looks ambitious.

And then they do this:

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gaaahhhh.

it’s hard not to develop a passing interest in bugs when you stare into flowers’ naughty bits.

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since that’s what the bugs are interested in, too. this here is probably some type of syrphid fly.

An orgy of god-knows-who all is getting down inside the newest, still-coming-up leaves of a milkweed plant:

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“who are you lookin’ at?”

 

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nearby, this guy shows off his derriere.

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…and a leafhopper causes general amazement. Those colors! Who knew? The nice people at bugguide,net, apparently, who ID’d this for me.

I saw some queen anne’s lace for the first time today:

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spiky bracts = a definitive characteristic.

I’ll leave you with a mystery.

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who’s this? first person with the right answer gets points!

2 comments:

  1. I could identify the candy cane leafhopper but it would only be hazarding a guess of the budding plant. Great shots and rather like the gapped tooth idea.

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