#hostplant
Elderberry borer, a longhorn beetle. Look for them in the NE USA now on their namesake hostplant!
May 16, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Striped Lychnis (Cucullia lychnitis) larva on its Dark Mullein hostplant on a Hampshire road verge with eagle-eyed @tonydavisecology.bsky.social earlier this week. #teammoth
June 28, 2026 at 5:56 PM
commission for client I am quite happy with; bandera argentina butterfly doll & illustration of hostplant&lifespan;
Thank you for this oppurtunity;
april2026
April 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Sehirus luctuosus today in Bengeo garden on its main hostplant here Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens). #ForgetMeNotShieldbug
April 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
March 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This layer is really making this fennel and black swallowtail woodcut pop! #printmaking #blockprint #contemporaryart #pollinator #hostplant
January 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My wife planted Butterfly Milkweed, Monarch's laid eggs on them, caterpillars ate their leaves, metamorphosed in crysalises into butterflies with orange markings to signify the toxins from their hostplant. Same sort of thing
Burned down in wildfires but the milkweed returned, & so will the Monarchs.
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
First post about 2 woodcuts, one aster and goldenrod that is finished and a fennel and black swallowtail in the work. #art #printmaking #hostplant
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A Cutleaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) saying “hello world” #RudbeckiaLaciniata
August 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lucky enough to catch this common crow at rest.
Euploea core.

#hostplant #invertebrate #butterfly
#biodiversity #garden
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Birds foot violet (Viola pedata)

#nativeplant #violet #hostplant
May 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Ants attending the caterpillar of the Speckled Line Blue - Catopyrops florinda in Native Mulberry - Pipturas argenteneus
#butterfly #hostplant #invertebrate #ant
February 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
She's #curvy. One of my favorite Swamp Milkweed plants. She's a natice pollinator magnet all summer long. #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #Milkweed #hostplant #bughaven #rootedrebellion
November 22, 2024 at 1:58 AM
It’s a boy💜

Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio aegeus

#hostplant #invertebrate #butterfly
#biodiversity
February 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
February 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Pupa update

Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio aegeus.

#hostplant #invertebrate #butterfly
#biodiversity

February 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Our Observation of the Day is this Whitemouth Dayflower Commelina erecta Whitemouth Dayflower plant (Commelina erecta, Trapoeraba in Portuguese), seen in Brazil by luisrobe59!

More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
March 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
New discovery.
Single green egg laid per leaf on native mulberry, Pipturus argenteus.
Another reason to keep an eye on this native plant. Great garden addition, it attracts birds who love the fruit & flowers like lorikeets, fig birds & koels.
#butterfly #invertebrate #hostplant #BeCurious #birds
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Thistles are small hotspots of biodiversity in a permanent pasture. Hostplant of dozens of specialised beetles, butterflies, bugs, leafhoppers, nesting site for larks, pipits, buntings, winter food source for goldfinch, linnet and other birds.
Mow it and you kick all those species entirely out.
October 31, 2023 at 1:41 AM
to render them distasteful to predators. L. latifolius is the larval hostplant for 4 species: Western sulphur, Boisduval's blue, Persius duskywing, & the moth Caloreas augustella. More on livestock effects: ars.usda.gov/pacific-west...
April 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Resin is under pressure in the resin canals. In some Bursera species, the pressure is so great that resin may squirt up to 2 m & last several seconds. 📷: B. trimera from Becerra et al. 2001. American Zoologist 41: 865–876. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #Burseraceae #resin #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
July 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Variegated Fritillary Caterpillar (Euptoieta claudia) eating the leaves of host plant Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) #EuptoietaClaudia
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Almost time to turn.

Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio aegeus

#hostplant #invertebrate #butterfly
February 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
We have lift off.

Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio aegeus

#hostplant #invertebrate #butterfly
#biodiversity
February 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM