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Fall Festival of Fall Blooming Asteraceae
It’’s true that every year I jump and shout about the fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and I proclaim that there...
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Mountain Oxeye and Red Bordered Satyrs, Oh My!
Fall gets me excited and fall color is a crazy combination of blooming plants and plants with leaves changing color as they prepare to...
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Jackass Clover and Clammy Weed
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in this...
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The Western Grape Skeletonizer
At our little homestead we have more than enough canyon grape vines (Vitis arizonica) to share with the voracious caterpillars of the western grape...
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Childhood, Wildhood
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I...
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Moth Pollinators in the Borderlands
The photos are mine of the Mirabilis longiflora flowers and Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth and tobacco hornworm. Note the seven streamline white...