Happy weekend! I hope you have fun plans.
This week’s puzzler is a hard one. It’s a tiny cluster of beautiful yellowish-orange eggs I recently found on a Milkweed leaf. They’re not monarch eggs! Female monarchs usually lay one egg per plant, usually on the underside of the Milkweed leaf, and they’re white, like miniature pearls. I did a monarch egg for puzzler #73-– a LONG time ago!!
Check out the photo. Then consider what insects you often find on Milkweed.
Hi, Sharon, I really like your photo of the Eyed Elater Click Beetle. I haven’t photo’d one since the spring of 1988 when I found it in the leaf litter of the woods near a former home.
I still look at your website, but living alone now without a vehicle doesn’t allow much time for reading, etc. in this 1 bdrm unit, but, though I’m sad I can’t get to wild places out of town as I used to (going with birders is no solution), I am only a few minutes’ walk from a city park and trail with a limited variety of wild birds, insects and a few mammals to photograph their different behaviours. Best wishes, Murray
Murray, I just noticed I never responded to your last comment. So sorry! I’m amazed you can remember the year you last saw a click beetle! I can hardly remember what I did yesterday, let alone many years ago. Sounds like going to your city park and walking that trail is the best way for you to get out. I hope you can do it often and that you see lots of good things on your adventures. Best wishes, Sharon