Saturday morning visit to the delicious Nectar bakery. Enjoying their garden visitors. I really love small businesses with gardens. #Wisconsin #SpringGreen #July #Monarch #Photograph #Asclepias #Milkweed #Butterfly #MonarchButterfly #Saturday #CoffeeShop #NectarBakery #Garden

Some baby large milkweed bugs I took pictures of on September 16th 2020, in Pennsylvania! I was just going through my tumblr blog and looking for more old pictures I haven't put on iNaturalist yet :)

They came to the common milkweed in our yard there for the two(?) years since I noticed it and let it grow. I always loved watching them, I called them my babies :)

#bugs #insects #bug photos #insect photos #baby bugs #large milkweed bugs #milkweed #common milkweed #asclepias syriaca #Tinyeltakespictures #wildlife #photography @Oncopeltus fasciatus @Oncopeltus

Drinking notwithstanding, still making some more progress in the #garden. Planted #Dahlia seedlings in the bed outside after hardening them off. Same with tomatoes. More of my Dahlia tubers are showing sprouts. Planting more #Asclepias seeds in the hope of having something that will be established enough to last through and bloom next year and benefit the butterflies.
The aggravating thing is knowing that I will still feel I've done too little when we get to October.

#gardening

Drinking notwithstanding, still making some more progress in the #garden. Planted #Dahlia seedlings in the bed outside after hardening them off. More of my Dahlia tubers are showing sprouts. Same with tomatoes. Planting more #Asclepias seeds in the hope of having something that will be established enough to last through and bloom next year and benefit the butterflies.

#gardening

Sincere thanks to #CanGeo for covering my PhD research on plant-pollinator interactions in urban green #corridors! Read on for more intriguing stories about conserving Canada's biodiversity in urban & suburban areas.

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/how-does-your-garden-grow/

#UrbanEcology #greencorridors #milkweed #asclepias #pollinators #urbanization