Bees and beetles. Hover flies and butterflies. Come get a taste of spring. I am in my 2nd year of life with umbels of my own to share my nectar. Eat before I am eaten. I see no cows nearby, but I am Cow’s Parsley after all #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Can you believe what Stringy Stonecrop is wearing? I know, she’s such a bee magnet… Eww, don’t you know how shallow her root system is? Don’t flower shame her, girlfriend. Let her do her her thing #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Gardening #Photography

Stab me once, shame on you. Stab me twice, shame on me. Maybe that’s why mom protected us as newly hatched nymphs, not wanting her Twice-Stabbed Stink Bug to feel the same shame she must have felt through her short life. #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #Bugs #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Attention long-tongued bees, you are approaching Foxglove Beardtongue for a landing. Please follow the purple guide lines and stamen hairs to find the nectar. Moths and butterflies, please wait off petal three for your turn #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Help! My name is Stenochironomus hilaris and I’m trapped inside a human’s bathroom. I just crawled out of the river bottom sediments and only have a day or two to live. I’m needed in the mating swarm. Please open a window #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #BugSky #Bugs #Flies #Midges #Nature #Photography

Hissss! Watch out little bees. I’m Viper’s Bugloss and my flowers might bite. JK, I love bees! The Doctrine of Signatures may have led people to believe I could cure snakebites, but I’m all vine and no venom #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Gardening

There once was a plant called Wood Avens That attracted small bees like a haven And when its seeds and fur met They fully covered your pet And made you wish that your dog or cat stayed in #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Gardening #Pets #Burrs #Dogs #Cats

Hey baby. It’s Raspberry Fruitworm Beetle here. Why don’t you head on over to my flower bed and let’s learn about the birds and the bees? That’s a metaphor, there won’t be any birds. Oh, your dad was eaten by a bird! Sorry #NonHumanNeighbours #Beetles #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #Gardening

I may enjoy hanging out in disturbed landscapes, but please don’t call me a weed. I’m Daisy Fleabane, and NA is my native land. I just go where the wind takes me, sharing my nectar with bees, moths and butterflies #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Gardening

Why hello Bladder Campion! Nice to see you, Bladder Campion. Your calyx is looking plump today. (blush) You always say the right things. Care to make to seeds? I would love to. Isn’t it nice to be hermaphroditic? #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Gardening

How’s it goin’, eh? I’m Canada Anemone, nice to meet you. Care for some pollen or nectar? I’ve got plenty, don’t worry ‘bout it. I don’t even need it, I can just spread through my rhizomes, see? Come back any time, I’m here #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Pink. Deptford Pink. But I’ve never actually been to Deptford. Sure I’m from Europe, but I’ve lived in Canada for many generations now. I don’t ask for much, not even pollinators. I just add a splash of colour to the roadside #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Come here little flies and beetles! Water Chickweed wants to give you a snack of nectar! Anyone? No? Alright, I guess I’ll pollinate myself again. What’s a flower got to do to make some seed pods around here? #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

My name is Codling Moth and I’m a fruitarian. You may have heard that I’m an apple lover (true story). What you may not have heard is that I’m a dogged, yet attentive lover. Meet me at the top of the apple tree and let’s talk #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #Insects #TeamMoth #BugSky #Nature #Photography

Hey there, I’m Lance-leaved Coreopsis, but my friends call me Tickseed. Don’t worry! I’m tick free. It’s just that my seeds look like ticks is all. I’m just a flower, looking for a bee or butterfly, asking it to pollinate me #NonHumanNeighbours #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

OK, you’ve got me! I am the True Armyworm moth. I surrender! I know you don’t like the damage I did as a caterpillar, but that’s all behind me. I’m on a nectar diet now. I just migrated north for spring break to have some fun #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #TeamMoth #Insects #Nature #Photography #BugSky

Ay, I’m White Pine Cone Borer, fresh from the pine forest. I almost didn’t make it, I tell you. Jimmy got stuck in the resin before he could pupate, and Tim, well…let’s just say a wasp took him. It wasn’t easy, but I’m here #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #Insects #BugSky #teammoth #Nature #Photography

Do you like to eat dead things? I like to eat dead things. Maybe we could eat dead things together? I used to eat decaying leaves, but now I’m into rotting fruit. Do you like to hang out in the dark? I do. I’m Morbid Owlet. #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #TeamMoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography

With a name like Sulphur Dun you might think that I smell. I am simply a mayfly subimago. No longer a nymph and not quite ready to date. That awkward in-between stage of metamorphosis, just waiting to pop. At least I don’t smell #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #BugSky #FlyFishing #Nature #Photography

Why hello, I am Columbine. Please don’t confuse me for my wild, naturalized kin. I am a highly-cultured cultivar. While my flowers have been chosen for their beauty, they still enjoy a bumblebee’s tickle on occasion #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

Hi, I’m Tatarian Honeysuckle. Am I coming on too strong? I know my perfume is sweet, but the bees seem ok. Some birds find my berries upsetting though. Can you blame me for wanting to travel across your land? #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Trees #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Invasives

I see you crawling out of the leaf litter, my darling. It is I, Grape Flea Beetle. Join me in a glass of Pinot Virginia Creeper to toast the new season. We will spend our last days feasting on grape buds and enjoying each other through the night #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #Beetles #BugSky #Nature

I’m Fluid Arches and I’m looking for a moth with a sense of flair. I want to see those orbicular spots melt into your wing scales. Your anal dash must be black, and I should taste the kidney-shape of your reniform spots. Is that too much to ask? #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Nature #BugSky

I’m Wheat Head Armyworm moth and I want YOU to join the Wheat Head Army. We do more by early spring than most moths do all summer. Get out of your cocoon and let’s make an army together. For kernels and countryside #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #Nature #Photography #BugSky #Spring

Are you tired of the patriarchy? Well I’m here to tell you there is another way. I’m Ground-ivy and I’m gynodioecious! What’s that? It means that I am either female or hermaphrodite. Males need not apply. The future is now #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography

I like evening best. When my flowers smell most sweet and dusk’s first moths alight on my petals. I am Dame’s Rocket, but I have no gender. Or maybe both genders. My seed does spread like a rocket though. Is that ok? #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Invasives #Gardening

I am Greater Celandine of Family Poppy! You fools thought I could cure your skin ailments, but I have come from Europe to colonize your forgotten lands. Ants, rise up and spread my seeds! The roadsides are ours! #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Gardening #Photography

Do you like the smell of rotting flesh? Fresh animal droppings ripe for laying eggs? Perhaps the leftover remains of a carcass? Then I’d love to meet! I’m Carrion Moth, and if you’re like me, you’re dying for something dead #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography

Psst. You wanna know why they call me Chickweed Geometer? OK, well, first I’m a day flyer. Less moth competition than at night, right? But then I hang out by this clover patch and the ladies come to me. It’s total chickweed! #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography

Do you like apples? I’m Red-banded Leafroller, how do you like them apples? Probably not as much after I’ve had a taste of them. That was back in my cat days, though. Now, the only thing I have a taste for are your pheromones #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography

I’m Woolly Blue Violet, and I’m a bit of a cleistogamist. What can I say, I like to do it by myself. Pollinators are fine in the spring, but come summer I like to self-seed and avoid all the bugs. Call me selfish #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Gardening #Photography

This isn’t the Alps. This is a garden. Oh how I miss the rocky heights that gave me my name! Rock Cranesbill. It is the name of a champion climber, not a backyard space filler. Sure I will spread here, but I won’t like it #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Nature

So, Lesser Periwinkle, what’s with the flowers? Um…I’m a flowering plant? Yeah, but you mainly just shoot up clones from your roots. Sure, but my flowers are pretty, so people plant me all over. Ooo, clever #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Invasives

I am the OG Virginia Strawberry. My sex life takes a village. Pollinators come for my flowers, mammals and birds for my fruit. I hear they have hybridized me to make some garden monstrosity. Bah! Just let me run #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #Nature #BloomScrolling #Photography #NatureWriting

I am Thyme-leaved Speedwell. You may not notice me underfoot, but my tiny flowers smell just as sweet to a tiny fly or bee. I once offered good luck to travellers and healed your ailments, and am now just a weed #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

It’s Year Two and time to flower! No more low basal rosette for me. No sir. I’m about to bolt! Come taste some Bitter Wintercress, pollinators! My leaves may be bitter, but my nectar is sweet. Or should I just do it myself? Ha! #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Fancy meeting you here! Are you a plantain fan too? Northern Plantain Flea Beetle, nice to meet you. You will not believe the dream I had overwintering. There was snow everywhere without a plantain in sight! What a nightmare #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photgraphy #NatureWriting

The invasion is swift and silent. I push up from the earth unsuspecting. My flowers raise to the sky for an aerial attack. My roots emit chemical defences preventing unwanted natives to sprout. I am Garlic Mustard. I will prevail #NonHumanNeighbours #plants #InvasiveSpecies #Nature #NatureWriting

My name is Curved-toothed Geometer. I have travelled all across this yard in my time. In my youth, I measured the earth inch by inch, like Caine in Kung Fu. In my elder days, I fly through the air forever searching for love #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #Teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #NatureWriting

"Admittedly, it’s a fun nickname. A beast with the neck of a cobra and the body of a chicken sounds like something right out of mythology, like a gryphon or a chimera." #NonHumanNeighbours #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #NatureWriting #Canada #Science open.substack.com/pub/adamfrit...

I am the Masked Hunter! Be amazed by my camouflage skills! My sticky coating will pick up all that surrounds me, so I can sneak up on insect prey! I may be a nymph, but will soon grow up to seek a mate! Be warned! (Cool, huh?) #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Hi, I’m Dusky Groundling! A cutworm? No, I’m…oh wait that’s a joke. You’re funny, do you do improv? Why yes I would like to get a sip of nectar. And we could check out open mic night at the porch light tavern #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Look, I get it. You had a bad experience with my distant cousin. But do you really need to call me Non-biting Midge? I don’t even have a mouth. I’ve got about a day to live and all I want is to join the swarm and mate. That OK? #NonHumanNeighbours #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Look, there’s Renounced Hydriomena! What do you think he renounced? Was he moth royalty? I heard he had to renounce his citizenship to avoid migration issues. Ooo…how mysterious. Let’s go give him a fly by #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

I’m confused. Confused Woodgrain Moth, that is. While I may be confused with other moths or tree bark, don’t be confused by my intentions. It is spring, our caterpillar months are behind us and our time is now #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

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Fluff out those feathers, boys! It's mating season, and I want to see you Yellow-rumped Warblers shine before choosing my summer fling. Are you following me? Good. An aerial display! Nice. That's right hop hop. You, in yellow, let's go #NonHumanNeighbours #Birds #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

Alright Lily Magnolia, this time we’re going to make some seeds. Calling all beetles, who wants some pollen?! Check out these amazing flowers! Don’t make me fertilize myself! It sure is lonely being a magnolia in Canada #NonHumanNeighbours #Plants #Flowers #Trees #Nature #Photography #NatureWriting

I am known as Common Oak Moth. I am a moth. I like oaks. But common? I don’t see many other moths around in early spring braving the elements for a taste of fresh foliage. Uncommon seems more apt. Will you be brave with me? #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #teammoth #Insects #BugSky #Nature #Photography

SPRING MIGRATION 2026! Let's do this! I love the tropics, but it is good to be back up north. How you doin? I see you. Hey there. (Settle down Northern Parula, you've got one shot for a summer nest up. Do not mess this up.) Care for a spider? #NonHumanNeighbours #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography