We came from here: The thread "Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests - Chapter 5" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

It's time to show pictures of all your garden friends moving into fall.

Here's one of Asa's bee pictures to start off ~

I was going to reply on the old thread, but decided I should copy and paste into the new. Not sure what is the best practice here when quoting stuff from the old thread?

dirtdorphins said:Morgan, I had to laugh while reading your last post--yes, the wildly successful 'invaders' really do breed prolifically, adapt to all kinds of challenges and perform better in the overall competition for resources don't they
Unfortunate that they are so often such nasty things, Japanese beetles, ugh
and where in the world did the roaches and rats come from???
I didn't even know for the longest time that our beloved honeybees were the invaders
and of course, hands down, most of what I see are the ever present mobs of H. sapiens

nativeplantlover said:I too only see Cabbage Whites Sad , but as far as wasps go -there's loads of variety here and they prefer the Broad-Leaved Mountain Mint. The Japanese beetles had a heyday for a few weeks then they petered out. Here there's actually more Bumble bees than any other bee, next the sweat type bees. and like you there's waaay too many sparrows but lots of Blue Jays, Cardinals, Chickadees, Goldfinches, Wrens, and a few Hummingbirds too. I live in a small town in Lancaster County, PA

I have been lucky enough to have never seen a rat or cockroach yet. Maybe I am far enough from the city to be safe from them! I do see periodic swarms of pigeons though.

How could I forget about the honey bees! I have lots of them too, but luckily I also have lots of other bees. I've been studying the bumble bees more and have my little identification key to help me. It seems like early in the season I see mostly the Two-spotted Bumblebee (Bombus bimaculatus) and Brown-belted Bumblebee (Bombus griseocollis), then by August it's almost entirely the Common Eastern Bumblebee (Bombus impatiens). I've seen four other Bombus species here, but not as often. I had one sighting a year ago of the Rusty-patched Bumblebee (Bombus affinis) which is listed as "critically imperiled" here. That's what got me starting looking more closely at all the bumble bees. I started some mountain mint from seed this year and it's just starting to bud now. I'm hoping the bees like it a lot.

Unfortunately I haven't seen much insect wise this past week since it's been a lot cooler and rainy. I've been seeing some good birds though. Saw some warblers, several species of good sparrows, and my first Eastern Towhee in ten years!

Hi Morgan, I don't know the best way either but thank you for moving to the new thread.

This year I haven't seen very many bumble bees but maybe they are staying out in the wild. I haven't been doing enough nature walks.

Little hairstreaks!

We've had a lot of red admiral butterflies for the past couple of days (group of butterflies = a kaleidoscope)

Here are some of them, lots of tongues! (Curled up in the 6th pic)







3 and a bee (carrying something)



Before you get cross, Melanie, I'm happy to post the same to the butterfly thread but don't know how to copy a post from one thread to another...

Wowser Mika! Beautiful! Love those tongues.

Very pretty, Mika!

Grasshopper

I won't get cross if you learn how to call it a proboscis. It's not a tongue. Think of it like a big straw.

There you go - that's why I shouldn't be posting to the butterfly experts thread!

I posted it over there and in the future, you should, too! That's how we learn and become experts!

Feel like telling me how to post the same thing on two different threads?

cliftoncat said:Feel like telling me how to post the same thing on two different threads?

I still can't do it either & need a step by step tutorial please.

Mika, click on the thread you want to "quote" from here, down on the bottom as if you are going to start a new post on this thread. Then right click with your mouse and copy it. Don't hit finish on this thread, just escape or move to the thread where you want to paste. Go to the new thread and right click-paste.

At least I think that's how you do it. Had to edit my post so hope it makes sense.

I use a Macbook Air, so no mouse...

That's okay, Mika if you still have a way to "copy" and "paste" you can still move it that way.

wildflowers said:Mika, click on the thread you want to "quote" from here, down on the bottom as if you are going to start a new post on this thread. Then right click with your mouse and copy it. Don't hit finish on this thread, just escape or move to the thread where you want to paste. Go to the new thread and right click-paste.

At least I think that's how you do it. Had to edit my post so hope it makes sense.

It worked!
Thank YOU Christine!

I posted these on the bird thread and I don't know if Asa or Dirt or anyone else on this thread who doesn't follow the bird thread wants to see birds but I thought they might like to see some from time to time. Really this is just an excuse to show my male & female Summer Tanagers because I am so excited about them. That & I do want to give the quoting from another thread a really good test. So here goes:
[quote="flaflwrgrl"]We've all gone to the birds!

Hi and welcome to the October bird photos thread. Please join us. We love to see birds from all over the world. We came from here:
The thread "Bird Photos, September 2016" in Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

I apologize in advance for the wall of photos I'm posting but I'm so excited about my Summer Tanagers!

Summer Tanager male splishing & a splashing





When this guy goes for it, he really goes for it! Is that enjoyment or what?


Mrs. Summer Tanager


She doesn't take any guff off of the Bluebirds






Happiness is having the bath all to oneself


Nanny, nanny, boo, boo


And here's a Tufted Titmouse



The Bluebird mob. I count 10.









Edited for those darn typos.

Oh Ann I love your bird pics! I'm especially smitten with the male Summer Tanager, what a beauty he is!

Thanks for the acorns & thumbs Robin & Dirt. Robin, I'm totally smitten with him too! We've been in this house 3.5 years & I've seen the females a few times each year but I could not get a glimpse of the male. I knew since females were here there HAD to be at least 1 male. FINALLY! He was worth waiting for too.