Found your picture fascinating, jmorth. And it's a popular picture - I had no idea that butterflies would be that attracted to Bananas!
Thank you, dirtdorphins and stone for clarifying that my Coreopsis 'Cruizin' down 'Main Street' had a Sand Wasp on it.
I have corrected that in the Database. I also saw that I have an inappropriate (?) number of Thumbs Up - 13 - for that photo, and it is at the head of the list. In this case, I agree that the insect or some such, shouldn't be the star feature - it should be the plant that is being acknowledged.
What to do about this dilemma? I agree that it is natural for the 'intruder' to be there, but we don't want them to steal the show.
By the way, this year I have had 3 or 4 times the number of ants on my Daylily blossoms than ever before. Any thoughts on sudden huge increases in the ant population? Perhaps it is because my new garden is built on top of many, many dumptruck loads of sand fill, which was dumped and tamped down or rolled to a consistency of concrete. On top of this, 4 to 6 inches of impoverished, dry topsoil was spread. Then 2 years of winds blew this away before a garden and lawn could be established. No wonder the Sand Wasps like my place so much! Perhaps I should have started a new Thread with this last paragraph in the Daylily Forum area - but now that I've written it here, I don't know how to put it elsewhere. I've never initiated a thread before.
