Insects

[goosehd]

Pandora Sphinx Moth

[SKT]

@goosehd beautiful species

[twin]

Hour old at the most.

[SKT]

That’s so cool, I love getting to see the transformation.

[twin]

@SKT First time for me to see this live.

[twin]

@ZackB So cool.

[Oaktavia]

My wife had the idea to plant milkweed in one of our gardens. The plants are doing great, and I have seen two monarchs so far in the area but I dont think they have found the milkweed quite yet.

[twin]

@Oaktavia They are on the butterfly weeds that are in the Milkweed family. Buy some Butterfly weeds they bring lots of butterflies.

[Oaktavia]

@twin said in Insects:

@Oaktavia They are on the butterfly weeds that are in the Milkweed family. Buy some Butterfly weeds they bring lots of butterflies.

I think there are some of these on the Potomac by my house. They look a lot like milkweed?

[twin]

@Oaktavia They have orange flowers that are flat.

[Oaktavia]

@twin OK cool man, I will try to remember to take a photo or two next time I am down there. I just saw my third monarch this morning while mowing the feild by the milkweed. The tiger and zebra swallowtail have found the milkweed garden though.

[ARNC]

Find this guy on my front doorframe - I think it’s a riband wave (Idaea aversata).

[twin]

@Oaktavia this is what Butterfly weed looks like.

[Oaktavia]

@twin cool, yeah the ones by the river look like that but are pink I think.

[twin]

@Oaktavia They maybe swamp Milkweed by the Potomac River.

[catdad1]

Wife and I were excited to pick our first tomatoes of the summer earlier this week. Only to find a tomato hornworm devoured out plant.

[Bridger]

@catdad1

Wow! Amazing creature.

[worn2fade]

@catdad1 I wouldn’t even be mad. Look how gnarly that thing looks.

[Oaktavia]

@catdad1 cute little fecker

[Oaktavia]

We have three different types of milkweed in the field garden. I was able to snap a couple shots of a small hummingbird hawk moth.

@twin here are the plants I was referring to yesterday. There are yellow flowered ones and pink. The pink ones were too far from the path to get a decent photo. I saw at least one monarch down by the river today but it could have been a few. Hard to tell when they fly around so much. I was also unable to get close enough to snap a photo of one. They were flying in fields on our way home from breakfast as well.

These plants are everywhere down there this time of year.