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We’ve let our #CommonMilkweed go wild this year. We were starting to lose hope about seeing #monarchs but suddenly we now have 14 #caterpillars and have seen one adult today in #Indianapolis #Indiana.

So awesome to see them visit us!

#MonarchButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #Nature

Two monarch caterpillars on a single stalk of common milkweed.

More of my pollinator garden work in progress about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems.

I’m thinking about a variety of futures possible for pollination and pollinators. Planting native plants wherever you are can foster these species on whom we and our ecosystems depend.

#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollination #commonMilkweed #echinecea #monarchButterfly #EasternSwallowtail #wildColumbine #CanadaColumbine #ecosystems #butterflies #nativeBee #MastoArt

As described this is a detail shot of my collaged linocut pollinator garden artwork featuring a log, wildflowers and pollinators including: Canada goldenrod, purple coneflower, wild geraniums, wild columbine, common milkweed, black eyed susans, monarch butterflies, red-spotted purple butterfly, white underwing moth, bumblebee, sweat bee, resin bee and milkweed leaf beetle.

the best example of a milkweed that was top-pruned and how it is growing a huge amount of new leaves!
(if you look closely you can see where it was pruned, and how there are three new "branches" of leaves growing from that spot!)
#commonmilkweed #rewilding #nativeplants

#Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed, is a food source for many flies, beetles, ants, bees, wasps, and butterflies (including Monarchs!).

#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower

new-to-me moth sightings today, on the common milkweed.
#naturalist #nature #commonmilkweed #nativeplants #moths #pollinators

☀️ Sunshine sparkles on the water
🐦‍⬛ Birding
🌱 Wildflowers

#ThreeGoodThings #wildflowers #CommonMilkweed #StarkBeauty #SolaceInNature #creationstruck

Three dried white milkweed pods, two on one stem with emerging white seed fluff, and one on the other

The #InserttAnInvert2024 prompt this week is eggs. The suggestion was to highlight how some species (mainly arachnids) take great care of eggs, carrying them around until they hatch, I thought I would talk about the opposite: the pitfalls of laying eggs & bailing, but worse of having a specific host for eggs like milkweed. Female monarchs lay a single eggs, usually on the underside of a young 🧵1

#printmaking #sciart #MastoArt #monarchButterfly #insects #commonMilkweed #ecology

#milkweedBug

My linocut print on ivory Japanese washi paper, 9.25” x 12.5”, displayed on white square, of “My milkweed brings all the bugs to the yard”. It shows a milkweed plant with stem and leaves printed in blue-green on yellow-green, with two round blooms full of florets printed in pale mauve on pale pink. On a leaf is a milkweed beetle in black on red. Above one bloom is a bumblebee in black and yellow and above the other is a monarch butterfly in pale and dark orange, white and black.

The seed pods of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca).

#milkweed #milkweeds #commonmilkweed

My local library has planted #nativeplants around their building. There have about 2 dozen #commonmilkweed plants near the back door, which are hosting these #redmilkweedbeetles (here #makingmorebeetles). #nature #photography #insects #spring

The red beetles with the big antennae and black spots and legs are red milkweek beetles.

These are common milkweed flower buds. I will come back and take pictures once they open.

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 :)

(Edit: BTW all my photos are public domain unless I specify otherwise, you are encouraged to save / share this wherever you want :) )

#bugs #insects #bugphotos #insectphotos #babybugs #largemilkweedbugs #milkweed #commonmilkweed #asclepiassyriaca #NonbinaryNaturalisttakespictures #wildlife #photography #Oncopeltusfasciatus #Oncopeltus

#CommonMilkweed

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