Bee Friends And Other Garden Guests - Chapter 5 in the Gardening for Butterflies, Birds and Bees forum

Moonhowl

Aug 12, 2016 10:54 PM CST

Name: Jean
Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a)

What a happy fellow..plants that don't make him fight for the pollen. Great pics J.

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wildflowers

Aug 13, 2016 9:13 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Christine
North East Texas (Zone 7b)
Shine Your Light!

Glad that all got worked out about the pincher bug, that's what we used to call earwigs.

Ronnie, I apologize for overlooking that it was your photo.

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb

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wildflowers

Aug 13, 2016 9:22 AM CST

Thread OP

Name: Christine
North East Texas (Zone 7b)
Shine Your Light!

Dragonflies ~

Female Common Whitetail

Male Widow Skimmer

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb

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Last edited by wildflowers Aug 13, 2016 2:19 PM

luvsgrtdanes

Aug 13, 2016 10:11 AM CST

Name: Ronnie (Veronica)
Southeastern PA (Zone 6b)
Count your blessings, be grateful

Oh my no apologies needed Christine

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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nativeplantlover

Aug 13, 2016 10:40 AM CST

Name: Cheryl
Brownstown, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)

UrbanWild said:

Sorry for the confusion...I only quoted the photos of another in order to write the IDs.

Ack! It's not a big issue Urban. I'm pretty new here and probably the least technical of anyone until I figure out more techie stuff -which might be never- or I can learn something then it flys out my brain door as fast as it came in. Please stay and be sure to ID some things for us, I get frustrated sometimes and other times I find someone else's unknown bug in a snap Why??

Welcome again

I'm also in the same zone as you.

"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." — Mary Oliver, from Messenger

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nativeplantlover

Aug 13, 2016 10:43 AM CST

Name: Cheryl
Brownstown, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)

jmorth said:Dragonfly today -

Gorgeous creature J!! Anybody know what this is? I've seen them the abdomen looks as if it was coated in blue eye shadow.

"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." — Mary Oliver, from Messenger

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nativeplantlover

Aug 13, 2016 10:49 AM CST

Name: Cheryl
Brownstown, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)

Moonhowl said:What a happy fellow..plants that don't make him fight for the pollen. Great pics J.

Yeah I need one of those Gloriosas!

"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." — Mary Oliver, from Messenger

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nativeplantlover

Aug 13, 2016 11:23 AM CST

Name: Cheryl
Brownstown, Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)

I wanted to post these yesterday but we had a huge power outage here. Two transformers blew up to smithereens! Muggy muggy and no fun.

All the photos were taken at Perelman Park nearby.
Neoscona ♀ Syrphid? Robin had one
Blurry hairstreak Banded tussock moth (halysidota tessellaris)
Two leafhoppers June beetle Tachinid fly
Assassin nymph? or stink bug?
??? JK! Pandora Sphinx!

Skipper- but which?

Fuller's Teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris)
Uploaded by nativeplantlover

BB on Teasel

"My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." — Mary Oliver, from Messenger

| @nativeplantlover | Post #1241825 (8)

Hemlady

Aug 13, 2016 11:26 AM CST

Name: Cynthia (Cindy)
Melvindale, Mi (Zone 5b)

Great pictures!!!

Lighthouse Gardens

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mellielong

Aug 13, 2016 11:36 AM CST

Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)

That's a Red-Banded Hairstreak. Love the colorful leaf hoppers!

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krobra

Aug 13, 2016 11:49 AM CST

Name: Kurt
Woodbridge , Va (Zone 7a)
Jai guru deva om

looks like male Zabulon Skipper to me

http://pwconserve.org/wildlife...

A pint can't hold a quart , If it is holding a pint it is doing the best that it can.
and it is written ,
if the evil spirit arms the tiger with claws , brahman provided wings for the dove.

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mellielong

Aug 13, 2016 12:05 PM CST

Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)

I make myself crazy trying to ID some of the Skippers.

Mom found a dead Cicada yesterday and placed it on one of the columns in front of the house. So I took pictures.

Their eyes being so far apart makes them look weird to me. Like some kind of fish.

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cliftoncat

Aug 13, 2016 12:57 PM CST

Name: Mika
Oxfordshire, England and Mento

nativeplantlover said:@cliftoncat
Mika-Your bumble bees on the Echinops are so different and interesting with those double black stripes! I just LOVE to see what lives in other parts of the world, can you tell us please what they are when you have time to post? Are they in decline in France and UK as well?

Yes, bees are in serious decline here, although you wouldn't know it from our garden - I must share my taste in plants with them! I've been trying to work out what all the different bees are in the pics - there's a white tailed bumble bee, a buff tailed bumble bee, and one that is possibly a queen - I discovered that we have 250 varieties of bumble bee, though some are pretty rare. I've sent off the photo that I'm not sure about to a bee conservation society, who offer to identify them from photos.

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Last edited by cliftoncat Aug 13, 2016 1:15 PM

dirtdorphins

Aug 13, 2016 1:54 PM CST

Name: Dirt
(Zone 5b)

mason bees

Dagestan Sage (Salvia canescens var. daghestanica)
Uploaded by dirtdorphins

I am partial to blue/purple flowers

therefore the bees have more of them than to dine from in my yard than say down the road a spell...but they have no color preference that I have observed

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Moonhowl

Aug 13, 2016 1:56 PM CST

Name: Jean
Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a)

What a neat suprise Dirt. The purple is really an eye catcher.

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wildflowers

Aug 13, 2016 2:09 PM CST

Thread OP

Name: Christine
North East Texas (Zone 7b)
Shine Your Light!

nativeplantlover said:
Gorgeous creature J!! Anybody know what this is? I've seen them the abdomen looks as if it was coated in blue eye shadow.

The dragonfly you asked about is a male Common Whitetail dragonfly.

made me realize, I should name my pics above which is a female and maybe ? a male Common Whitetail.

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day --Native American Proverb

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Last edited by wildflowers Aug 13, 2016 2:16 PM

cliftoncat

Aug 13, 2016 2:20 PM CST

Name: Mika
Oxfordshire, England and Mento

dirtdorphins said:mason bees

Dagestan Sage (Salvia canescens var. daghestanica)
Uploaded by dirtdorphins

I am partial to blue/purple flowers therefore the bees have more of them than to dine from in my yard than say down the road a spell...but they have no color preference that I have observed