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Milkweed at Reedsburg Dam- Houghton Lake, Michigan

Peacetober 2025 number 12: Milk.

Kotolo Milkweed (Asclepias eriocarpa).

#peacetober #peacetober2025 #DigitalArt #Milk #Milkweed #KotoloMilkweed

Chalky drawing of a milkweed on a beige background. It is in bloom with a pinkish flush of flowers. A drying bead of milky sap rests at the crevice between the steam and a leaf.

Milkweed seeds rest, a delicate promise in monochrome. In their release is no death, only a continuous return.

#photography #monochrome #nature #impermanence #ThichNhatHanh #milkweed #nodearth

A black and white close-up of common milkweed seeds. Wispy white fibers are attached to small, dark seed pods, creating a contrast against a dark background.

Milkweed seeds rest, a delicate promise in monochrome. In their release is no death, only a continuous return.

#photography #monochrome #nature #impermanence #ThichNhatHanh #milkweed #nodearth

#SilentSunday #Fall #Iowa #Milkweed

A single stem of common milkweed with a cluster of pods at the top. The pods are dry and are breaking open. The seeds with their white silky parachutes are ready to fly with the wind (that was blowing from right to left).

In the background is a small farm pond with sunlight reflecting off the wind-ruffled surface.

Never home alone, outside edition: A few #invertebrates hanging out on the other side of the window, keeping me company while I’m housebound. One species is there for the Passionflower, which you can see; the other is basking above some #milkweed that’s below the window. #NativePlants

A collection of bright orange-red Large Milkweed Bugs are basking in tightly huddled clumps at the top of a window screen. They are mostly outside, although one or two are inside the screen. They are a mix of sizes and developmental stages (instars). In the background out of focus, but still recognizable by the green silhouette against a dark background, is a vine with big three-part leaves. The plant is Passiflora incarnata, purple passionflower.

A dark, spiky caterpillar with red and white striped running the length of its body. It’s clinging to a stem of Passiflora incarnata, which is its host plant. It’s almost certainly the larval stage of the Variegated Fritillary butterfly.

Since our Desert Senna’s been blooming again lately & our Desert Milkweeds look like they're forming new flower buds, this seemed like a good time to post this Perpetual Journal page of mine, from a few months ago. And YES! 🥰We’ve seen a Gila Monster more than once this year!!!

#NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling #Milkweed #lizard #reptile #GilaMonster

My 2025 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of Desert Milkweed flower buds; my 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of Desert Senna in bloom with a yellow flower; & my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Gila Monster, all in Tucson, AZ.

I saw my first bust-open milkweed pods of the year today.
#milkweed

A milkweed pod with seeds starting to escape. Each seed looks like a teddy bear ear attached to a white silk tassel.

Large Milkweed Bugs on #milkweed pod #native plants #NY #insects

Closeup of milkweed pod.

#milkweed #naturephotography

Black and white close-up of a dried milkweed pod opening, with delicate silky fibers and seeds spilling out.

A honey bee visits a summer milkweed, pollinia hanging from her legs. Illinois.

#bees #milkweed #bloomscrolling #insects

Photo of the top of a milkweed plant, dramatically lit, with flowers in various stages of development. A small bee hovers at top left over a giant pink ball of open flowers.

When milkweed pods erupt

#milkweed #SeedPods

White fluffy seeds caught by nearby remaining stems from plant blooms near the opened dry gray milkweed pods. There are very few remaining tiny pink blooms on the red stems that have risen above the bright green leaves of their plant in the background.

Oh, and of course all the stuff that's gone wild -- #Milkweed, #Asters, #Catnip and #Oregano. Our #pollinator friends appreciated that. Saw the last young #MonarchButterfly about to fly south the other day.

#GardeningForPollinators #GardeningThoughts #SolarPunkSunday

Harvested some milkweed seed pods for my lovely sister who is working on de-monoculture-ing at her place. It's a beautiful day!

#Garden #Milkweed #SeedSaving

Can you spot who’s visiting the milkweed?

#dragonfly #milkweed #autumn

A brown dragonfly with silvery wings perches on a cluster of 4 milkweed pods, surrounded by grasses and other wild plants.

Fifth-instar Monarch caterpillars (Danaus plexippus) stop feeding and often wander away from milkweed in search of a safe pupation site—sometimes traveling up to 10 meters before forming their chrysalis.

#MonarchButterfly #MonarchCaterpillar #Pollinators #ButterflyLifeCycle #Milkweed #NatureFacts #WildCalifornia #Nature #Wildlife

And that's a wrap for this year! Fifteen of the monarch caterpillars we found on our yard milkweed made the transition to butterfly and successfully lifted off in time for migration. So happy to have helped add just a few more endangered lovelies to the planet.🧡🧡🧡

#butterflies #monarchs #nature #photography #NaturePhotography #milkweed

One perfect monarch with outspread wings perched on our purple butterfly bush. The sun behind it makes it shine like stained glass.

Milkweed Seedpod Explosion Season outside of the neighbours. #BloomScrolling #milkweed #Alberta #photograghy #iphone13

Brown seeds with long white fuzz for flight of the milkweed family emerging from long dull white seedpods that are approximately 7cm long

Oleander aphids (Aphis nerii) on a swamp milkweed seedpod that has been chewed open, I think, by a monarch butterfly larva. Almost all aphid species adopt a headstand posture (facing ground) when feeding. Interesting. #aphids #milkweed #hemiptera #insects #entomology #asclepias

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