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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 13:29:35 GMT -5
The gardens have been awakening... I've finally learned this is a Comfrey, a perennial herb with medicinal properties: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfrey Cool hosta, I think?  And, what is this?! Some kind of damselfly? Wooooooooof! It was sitting in that giant pileated woodpecker hole:  |
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Post by bawanajim on May 31, 2015 14:04:25 GMT -5
Great pictures, and beautiful color contrasts.
We are dealing with 5.5 inches of rain the last couple of days, nothing pretty here.
Maybe next week!
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Post by Dutch on May 31, 2015 21:08:07 GMT -5
We found wild iris's this weekend.
Jack in the pulpits.
Interesting also how many new wild apple trees are coming up from seeds.
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Post by redarrow on Jun 1, 2015 17:01:52 GMT -5
I don't think the insect is a damselfly. I believe its a wasp in the Ichneumon family of long, slender wasps. I don't know much about them, but I don't think they are harmful(they may even be predatory to harmful insects)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2015 21:13:47 GMT -5
Good job redarrow. DCNR confirmed it as 'Megarhyssa atrata' or a giant ichneumons. A wasp. animaldiversity.org/accounts/Megarhyssa_atrata/Seems innocuous, but it seems perhaps their larvae are what the pileated woodpeckers and yellow-bellied sapsuckers are eating while destroying my trees. Amazing nature! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 15:40:03 GMT -5
I cleaned out a couple of boxes in my yard yesterday figuring the house wrens fledged. Left them open to air out (pointless with the rain) and just found a lone egg laying in the one! Patience, birds! Looks like a house wren egg to me. They are rowdy vocal little guys...  |
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