Diario de ch3chia

[ Posted Monday 9/3 ]

Seen in garden, afternoon around 2pm:

• On great blue lobelia: 1 bumble bee (likely American bumble bee/bombus pennsylvanicus) & 2 goldenrod soldier beetles. Beetles mating and moving around the plant while attached. Same insects observed the day before (9/1). Also 1 Silver-spotted skipper.
• On abelia: 1 hummingbird moth visited flowers in bloom. Did not come to lobelia, possibly because I was standing there?
• On coastal plain tickseed: 1 orange assassin bug
• Robber fly, later ID'ed as red-footed cannibal fly: hanging around coneflowers and abelias, did not see it hunting or carrying prey
• Woodland pinkroot: late blooms on 2 of 4 plants.
• Ants on lobelia and woodland pinkroot - not sure of species