#PhloxTown update: After lots of rain we have three blooming Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)! #nativeplants
May 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#PhloxTown update: After lots of rain we have three blooming Foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)! #nativeplants
Good morning from #PhloxTown #nativeplants
May 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Good morning from #PhloxTown #nativeplants
There's been an in-phlox of new residents to #PhloxTown!
Spotted today:
- Picture-winged fly (pictured, lmao)
- Ant aphid farms 🚜 🐜
- Baby yellow garden spiders 🕷
- Green lacewing 🧚♂️
- American hoverfly 🇺🇸 🚁 🌱
- A baby earthworm 🪱
Only one isn't native to N. America—the worm! #nativegardening
Spotted today:
- Picture-winged fly (pictured, lmao)
- Ant aphid farms 🚜 🐜
- Baby yellow garden spiders 🕷
- Green lacewing 🧚♂️
- American hoverfly 🇺🇸 🚁 🌱
- A baby earthworm 🪱
Only one isn't native to N. America—the worm! #nativegardening
![Wikipedia: Delphinia picta is a species of picture-winged fly in the family Ulidiidae. The specific name picta is from Latin and means "painted."[6] It is the only species in the monospecific genus Delphinia. It is found in the United States on the East Coast and in the Midwest from Florida to Maine across to Kansas through Minnesota[5][1][4] but also can be found in Mexico[7] and El Salvador.[8] It is sometimes mistaken for a species of fruit fly, but D. picta do not feed on living plant matter, as they are detritivores and eat decaying plant matter.[5][4][9] They also have been observed eating fermenting frass from Megacyllene robiniae on black locust trees.[10] They can be found almost anywhere there is decaying vegetation: landfills, temperate deciduous forests, swamps, and even shaded fields.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bmoinxm3zcmayhujha3ulwlu/bafkreihegrt4qeeyse2xs4wvw5xgfrcchn2drltk2xc6fhyahl6y56a5ze)
May 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
There's been an in-phlox of new residents to #PhloxTown!
Spotted today:
- Picture-winged fly (pictured, lmao)
- Ant aphid farms 🚜 🐜
- Baby yellow garden spiders 🕷
- Green lacewing 🧚♂️
- American hoverfly 🇺🇸 🚁 🌱
- A baby earthworm 🪱
Only one isn't native to N. America—the worm! #nativegardening
Spotted today:
- Picture-winged fly (pictured, lmao)
- Ant aphid farms 🚜 🐜
- Baby yellow garden spiders 🕷
- Green lacewing 🧚♂️
- American hoverfly 🇺🇸 🚁 🌱
- A baby earthworm 🪱
Only one isn't native to N. America—the worm! #nativegardening
This Virginia Sweetspire will get so floofy and tall, eventually! The second picture is aspirational. #PhloxTown
May 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This Virginia Sweetspire will get so floofy and tall, eventually! The second picture is aspirational. #PhloxTown
I think the spider is a tiny female black and yellow garden spider.
Should we call her the Yellow Lady?
She's fierce, but she's harmless. She runs #PhloxTown
bugoftheweek.com/blog/2020/10...
Should we call her the Yellow Lady?
She's fierce, but she's harmless. She runs #PhloxTown
bugoftheweek.com/blog/2020/10...
Garden spiders rockin’ in the DMV: Black and yellow garden spider, Argiope aurantia — Bug of the Week
In a previous episode we lamented the unusual paucity of large swallowtail butterflies in our gardens this year. But 2020 has not been a rotten season for all of our six and eight legged friends. Ov...
bugoftheweek.com
May 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I think the spider is a tiny female black and yellow garden spider.
Should we call her the Yellow Lady?
She's fierce, but she's harmless. She runs #PhloxTown
bugoftheweek.com/blog/2020/10...
Should we call her the Yellow Lady?
She's fierce, but she's harmless. She runs #PhloxTown
bugoftheweek.com/blog/2020/10...
Welcoming our first spider to #PhloxTown! That's what I've decided to call our native patio garden.
What name shall we give our tiny yellow spider?
Still waiting patiently for the bees 🐝
And new blooms and buds! #flowerreport
What name shall we give our tiny yellow spider?
Still waiting patiently for the bees 🐝
And new blooms and buds! #flowerreport
May 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Welcoming our first spider to #PhloxTown! That's what I've decided to call our native patio garden.
What name shall we give our tiny yellow spider?
Still waiting patiently for the bees 🐝
And new blooms and buds! #flowerreport
What name shall we give our tiny yellow spider?
Still waiting patiently for the bees 🐝
And new blooms and buds! #flowerreport
