Jessica
@jessicashen.bsky.social
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Gardening and enjoying art in the mid-atlantic east coast of North America. she/her
Native plant bios need more winter photos. "Partially evergreen" doesn't mean much.
about 12 hours ago
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Do you - like me - suddenly need portraits of every pet in the neighborhood??
add a skeleton here at some point
6 days ago
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Contemplating if I have room for yellow or purple giant hyssop and whether to go yellow or purple (agastache nepetoides vs schrophulariifolia)
6 days ago
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I made the thin coat dog a dog coat with the thick coat of the thick coat dog, so now both dogs have winter coats. No dogs were harmed in the making of this dog coat.
11 days ago
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Definitely agree, my experience has been similar!
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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The horrors persist, but so do the coral honeysuckle flowers.
2 months ago
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There are a few partridge pea and obedient plant putting out fresh flowers, despite most their neighbors being done for the year.
3 months ago
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Almost partridge pea harvest time
4 months ago
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A surprise hiding under the partridge peas. Rough buttonweed, Hexasepalum teres?
4 months ago
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So many late checkouts on a cloudy day. [4 pictures of bumblebees on flowers]
4 months ago
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Caraid
5 months ago
Art is just so fucking cool. I love scrolling my feed here and seeing piece after piece of what feels like the true universal language of humanity. Even if we don't share the same words you can draw a picture of something that matters to you and I will feel it in some way. I love that connection.
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The physostegia virginiana patch is constantly buzzing with dozens of bumblebees and surely other little creatures.
5 months ago
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CWG needs a metric for end of mosquito season.
5 months ago
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Share a meal with someone
5 months ago
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A different, smaller and lighter brown skipper. Not shown are a black swallowtail and a cabbage white. Excellent butterfly watching today!
5 months ago
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Weekend brunch!
5 months ago
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Bouncing back. Tree friend gave me grafting tape to bandage the stump and now 4 new lead nodes sprouting.
5 months ago
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Not even peak physostegia virginiana season yet. These are the same white starts that have blushed pinker with time.
5 months ago
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The neighborhood monarda fistulosa bloom at different times
6 months ago
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physostegia virginiana starting to bloom in earnest. this should be a straight species, pink last year, but starting off white.
6 months ago
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Same spot, 15 minutes apart, new friend: red spotted purple?! The thick vertical stem in both pictures is the same obedient plant.
6 months ago
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One of the pawpaw trees lost its main branch :(
6 months ago
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titsay 𓆏
6 months ago
we all need a little bit of help sometimes
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A hummingbird clearwing sitting on a glass wall of an office building!!!!!
6 months ago
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New neighbors down the road clear cut the massively overgrown mess of English ivy, periwinkle, privet, and more. Should I show up with welcome to the neighborhood cookies and seedlings?
6 months ago
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Judging by the dozen+ occupied flowers, there was a rager of a bumblebee party last night and many didn't stumble home. This one didn't even find a comfy bed!
6 months ago
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Teeny tiny orange mint moth on mountain mint. Wingspan about 1 centimeter.
6 months ago
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Early check in at the bee hotel last night
6 months ago
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Look at this lil skipper I almost mistook for a clearwing moth.
6 months ago
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And a hummingbird clearwing moth!!
7 months ago
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The marigold "lawn" is doing well. It is pretty buzzy and the zebra swallowtail seems to enjoy it too. Only about 6 inches tall, so I think I'd recommend this as a lawn-to-pollinator-garden strategy.
7 months ago
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Managed to get a picture of the snowberry clearwing moth near a bumblebee, for scale. I'm constantly surprised by how tiny and easy to miss they are.
7 months ago
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A good bug day: zebra swallowtail and snowberry clearwing moth sightings!
7 months ago
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Emily J
7 months ago
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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Rain covered serviceberry shrub, which hasn't taken tree shape yet.
7 months ago
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Zebra swallowtails are stop-in-your-tracks-under-a-blazing-noon-sun stunning.
7 months ago
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Wasn't up for doing battle this year on a patch of difficult to convert grass/weeds and just chucked tons of petite marigold seeds there. Now it's a delightful little marigold patch that's starting to bloom.
7 months ago
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Midsummer meal
7 months ago
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Rushed outside to stand in the baking sun to watch a zebra swallowtail figure 8-ing around the pawpaw trees
7 months ago
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Bee hotel has expanded to include clustered mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) (and won't stop expanding)
7 months ago
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The New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) flowers starting to open.
7 months ago
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I'm not sure if I'd be happier with fruits on my trees rather than these chomp marks.
8 months ago
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The penstemon is buzzing.
8 months ago
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Thanks to
@ksciencearts.bsky.social
posting about the Waterlust brand, an unusual whale shark was recently spotted in Lake Superior.
8 months ago
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Current blooms: penstemon, coreopsis, fleabane, lonicera sempervirens. Everything else looking lusciously green after the deep rain.
8 months ago
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A single fasciated purple coneflower getting a headstart on the rest of the flowers.
8 months ago
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I've seen 2 zebra swallowtail butterflies fluttering around my pawpaw patch this month :)
8 months ago
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️
9 months ago
I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives. So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
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Flowers on a mature pawpaw tree near my little patch.
9 months ago
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Raindrops on lonicera sempervirens
10 months ago
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