Overwhelmed with chompers
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Why is the butt wiggling
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Who’s your most frequent caterpillar freeloader?
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Hatchlings and their signs
Monarch Butterflies are in danger. The numbers are steadily going down and the annual migration is in danger of disappearing. The reasons for the decline include pesticides, GMO crops, climate change and systematic destruction of milkweed, the only host plant that supports Monarch Butterflies. But you can help, please read more about this issue and join our campaign.
Narrow leaf vs tropical
Monarch Butterflies are in danger. The numbers are steadily going down and the annual migration is in danger of disappearing. The reasons for the decline include pesticides, GMO crops, climate change and systematic destruction of milkweed, the only host plant that supports Monarch Butterflies. But you can help, please read more about this issue and join our campaign.
Allen’s (?) SoCal breakfast
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Sunflower hydra after squirrel ate the head
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Look closely at the flowers to find the teeny cats
Monarch Butterflies are in danger. The numbers are steadily going down and the annual migration is in danger of disappearing. The reasons for the decline include pesticides, GMO crops, climate change and systematic destruction of milkweed, the only host plant that supports Monarch Butterflies. But you can help, please read more about this issue and join our campaign.
Any way to identify which bees occupying these cells in hotel?
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Show them this native
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Local native milkweed low toxicity, not popular
Monarch Butterflies are in danger. The numbers are steadily going down and the annual migration is in danger of disappearing. The reasons for the decline include pesticides, GMO crops, climate change and systematic destruction of milkweed, the only host plant that supports Monarch Butterflies. But you can help, please read more about this issue and join our campaign.
Position of bee hotel
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Full sun alternative to dandelion for SoCal?
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Cardinal flower, St George aster, Slender sunflower blooming
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First flower on white Epilobium canum ‘Summer snow’
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Finally got monarch eggs on milkweed
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Cutworm moth on Ribes malvaceum
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St George aster
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Surprise mallow
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First Matilija poppy of the year
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She liked smokey quartz and making biscuits
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Camouflage dangle
For all our dangling animal friends
Too chunky to fit it all in
For all our dangling animal friends
My first Desert Willow flower of the year
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