Our day started at Northside where we had breakfast with Mike and Linda. Then Susan and I headed over to Nichols Arboretum.
Ailanthus webworm, a charming little moth. It was nice five or six of these.
These are Feather-edged petrophila, another moth. There were 14 on this goldenrod. We had many thousands of them. I’m sure whatever they ate as caterpillars is gone.
There were many hundreds of dogwood sawflies on this nearly denuded dogwood. It would be interesting to see what they look like as adults.
This is pale touch-me-not, which in my opinion makes the spotted touch-me-not, our common species rather blah. I was pleasantly surprised at the large number in the Arb.
We got home before the rain was supposed to start and picked veggies in the garden. We got a couple of meals worth of green beans, lots of cherry tomatoes, romas and beef beef tomatoes, two small eggplants, and lots of basil for making pesto.
More tomorrow…
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