#biodiversity
Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia, Fam. Thomisidae)
The gray weather and the cold wind do not really encourage the photo outing. Fortunately, there is always something going on in the honeysuckle hedge that borders the garden!
Finally reunited!
After waiting all winter in the darkness of their lodges in the hollow of the bamboo stalks,
After flying incessantly around the nests,
Carpenter bee pairs form in the warm March sun
Mason bees visiting nests while searching females (Osmia sp, Megachilidae - March 2022)
European hornet(Vespa crabro - March 2022)
Spider mom
(Pisaura mirabilis)
Lime hawk moth, (Mimas tiliae - Sphingidae)
Diplotomma venustum
Venerating celebrities is out, venerating lichens is IN! Public figures will let you down and devastate you emotionally but you know who would never do that to you? D. venustum. They’re your unproblematic fave now. Deal with it.
This crustose lichen grows in thick, white rosettes dotted with black or chalky gray apothecia. It colonizes calcium-rich rocks and human-made surfaces in open areas of northern Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Greenland.