Favoritos de harrier

In asclepias syriaca

?

Santa Barbara County, California

!!!!!!!

Small compared to most robber flies I've been seeing around- maybe 3 centimeters long

Checked out several tubes in our little demonstration box

idk maybe not, this vs. affinis confuses me

Fledglings learning to use a suet feeder. These birds seem totally tame.

Longhorn bee roosting for the night.

16 large individuals (thought they were skunk cabbage from a distance) in lowest terrace of Maple River floodplain. There are apparently hundreds on the other side of the road on private property.

This 👏 is 👏 Panicum 👏 tuckermannii 👏 not 👏 Panicum 👏 philadelphicum 👏 lumping 👏 them 👏 is 👏 wrong 👏

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

Juvenile

growing in rocky storm drainage basin next to the sidewalk.

家长: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80026104

One of four Blanding's turtles today

Turtle was captured as part of a long term reproductive ecology study. This female is at least 83 years old (and was gravid this year).