Bumblebees Love the Nectar of Purple Thistle Flowers
Bristles and Orickles Most of the purple thistle plants (Cirsium horridulum) have finished blooming by this time of year, but...
The Florida Barge Canal is a Great Place to Find Beautiful Queen Butterflies
Dancing Queen Back in the 1960s some ambitious engineers came up with the idea to cut a canal through the...
Lily Pad Forktails are Beautiful Little Damselflies
Reflected It’s the time of the year when it’s wonderful to be out o the water. It’s warm, but with...
Nature Can Be Amazing in Many Ways
Fragile Strength The more time I spend out in nature, the more incredible things I see and experience. One of...
Butterflies Can Still Be Amazingly Strong Even When Tattered
Battered But Strong This is the time of year that the purple thistle flowers bloom and despite the fact that...
I Hate It When Bugs Come to the Picnic
Buzzed This little tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) was just finishing up a treat when some sort of flying insect buzzed...
Bumblebees Love Thistle Flowers
Buzz Off it’s been a very dry spring and that has cut down on lot of our wildflower blooms, but...
Bulltongue Arrowhead Makes Beautiful Flowers Most of the Year
Winter Greenery Winter is not the time of year that you generally think about beautiful flowers blooming, but in Florida...
Beautiful Bumblebees are Still Very Active, Even in November
The Humble Bumblebee We are now several days into the month of November, and although the days are definitely shorter...
Beautiful Butterflies and Fall Wildflowers are a Colorful Pairing
Multicolored Autumn Although autumn is coming to an end in much of the northern hemisphere, here in Florida it’s still...
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