Where the wild things are

I have so many pictures this week, ima put a buncha caterpillar shots over on my tumblr.

The zebra longwing finally quit the nervous circling of the may-pop vines, and got down to business...

Look close, and you can see her depositing an egg...

egg!

The Hyssop-leaf thoroughwort (Eupatorium hyssopifolium) is never going to be a candidate for the flower bed... but seen in a certain light, has a certain attractiveness... Those layered platforms...

These little sweeties (top pic Five-banded Tiphiid Wasps), (bottom pic love bug), seem to be enjoying the eupatorium blooms...

Who could ever get tired of hummingbird pics?

While wandering around the garden drinking my morning coffee, I discovered this beauty hunting breakfast... Judging by where this dude was looking, I'd say that vole was definitely on the menu!

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You go get those nasty voles!

The vernonia altissima is finally blooming... This is the locally native ironweed that grows in ditches around macon... 

Had a heck of a time getting it to grow out in the dry sand...

I'm not seeing any pollinators visiting... I wonder why the butterflies are giving it a miss...

This tiny spiderwort flower may be Commelinaceae, seems like the 3 flower petals = tradescantia, 2 petals = commelina isn't as definitive as we would like... If/when I find the definite name for this pretty, I'll have to come back and add it in...

The blue curls  (Trichostema dichotomum) aren't doing nearly as well with the rains this year... as they did last year in the heat and drought...

I don't like to keep posting the same critters or the same flowers... but this tyger on the tithonia surrounded by hyacinth bean flowers is a neat image...