Diario de ch3chia

Overcast, light rain on and off

Observations

• 2 quick glimpses of American lady (?) butterfly - once flittering around bee balm, once on stoke's aster... both times it flew away quickly
• squash vine borer both, resting on baptisia
• swamp milkweed flowers began to bloom
• stokes asters: furrow bees, bumble bees
• purple coneflowers: multiple furrow bees on 1st bloom
• pale coneflower: furror bee methodically collecting pollen
• appalachian mountain mint: stink bug eggs (?) hatching under leaf

Plantings

• planted 1 carolina bushpea (behind wild quinine, where joe pye had been)
• planted 3 cardinal flowers from neighbor - left slope, front, between blue lobelia and swamp milkweed
• planted mystery sunflower from neighbor ("dug up from East Club Blvd") - broke leave from root, planted root, put leave (with tiny piece of root attached) in jar with water

[ 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