There is no getting around it, every summer monsoon when the borderlands come to life it is so exciting! Apodanthera undulata, the crazy melon, can be easily seen along the roads and out across the land during this season. The clusters of yellow flowers give it away quickly. Those yellow flowers close up pretty quickly later in the morning. You can see the spent and tired flowers in the photo below. And check out the crazy ribbed fruit with the “disagreeable odor” as noted in Arizona Flora. Hey, it’s melon loco in the Cucurbitaceae! Yay!
I think that the common name of orange sneezeweed may be a bit misleading. The flowers we saw and photographed were more on the...
Chalybion californicum is the name of the metallic blue black wasp. Both male and female feed on nectar and they are easily spotted on...
This episode is a very short list of near life experiences…I spared you, but suspect you have a pretty good…
