Taking a little walk around the yard I came across these beauties. The little mushrooms may not be psychedelic, but aren’t they interesting?
Native plants are also in full bloom; most are tiny, but their place in the environment belies their small footprints.
Rudbeckia hirta
Bidens alba
Hypericum hypericoides
INSECTS WERE OUT IN FORCE!
L: Ants (unidentified) gather nectar from a Bidens alba blossom;
Right Top: White peacock butterfly caterpillar Anartia jatrophae on a native passion vine;
Right Bottom: Black Stink bug, Proxys punctulatus, showing off his amazing colors!
Bottom: Hunter’s little paper wasp, Polistes dorsalis