Picture of the day!

[Joanie]

Surprise visit today... She spreads her wings to be photographed ! Is it a monarch butterfly ?

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Butterfly is cute, but what about that ring of confinement! Is it a diy?

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_atalanta

Different genus of butterfly than monarch.

 

[coconut]

@Joanie 100 % right. From soft drink bottles !!! Non expensive, reliable, recyclable

 

[steve booth]

Both are in the family Nymphalidae with the red admiral being Vanessa atlanta and the monarch Dansus plexippus. As the suggested rank implies the monarch is bigger than the red admiral and the monarch has a mostly orange inner margins with a black outer margin to the wings.
Cheers
Steve

 

[coconut]

Anyone of you has milkweed in your garden ? Just read about monarch butterfly...

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

I have Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) in the front and incarnata (swamp) in the back. Common is big and invasive. Swamp is big but more delicate and ornamental. Both smell good and are loved by pollinators and monarchs. Aphids are common in late summer and can be removed with an artists' paintbrush. I have seeds.

 

[coconut]

I have Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) in the front and incarnata (swamp) in the back. Common is big and invasive. Swamp is big but more delicate and ornamental. Both smell good and are loved by pollinators and monarchs. Aphids are common in late summer and can be removed with an artists' paintbrush. I have seeds.

You have seeds of which kind, the front or the back yard ? Seeds take long to germinate ? will see if there are plants at local nurseries next spring...

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Both types of seeds. You sow them after it gets chilly, covered with a half inch of soil. Practically complete germination in warm spring. Sunny for both, moister for the swamp.

 

[Muckydoo]

Yummy, gnat soup. I put that gnat on there yesterday.
P. Johanna

 

[EMBE]

my first ping to split : )

 

[TCTC]

A big patch of P. vulgaris near Jasper AB.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

Looks like an Indian Paintbrush, too.

 

[TCTC]

Looks like an Indian Paintbrush, too.

True, but this is carnivorous plant forum, not a hemiparasitic plant forum.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

One can hope

 

[Muckydoo]

This P. ehlersiae 'Tolantongo' is being pushed out of the pot.

 

[Muckydoo]

This little P. cyclosecta is falling out!

 

[Joanie]

This little P. cyclosecta is falling out!

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So cute

 

[coconut]

My '' Plant of the month (November) '' contestant, Sarracenia rosea, is flowering...

 

[coconut]

Hi, how do you call that white bug ? It doesn't jump and moves like ants... Also, does not fly ... What might it be ? Any thought ? It comes as a surprise while I took picture of the flower...

 

[Muckydoo]

Nice size bump on this N. lowii x ventricosa