9.19.26 North Pond, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL ("smart bugs" and plants)

 


The most adorable snuggly looking delightful Common Eastern Bumble in the history of the whole wide multiverse, across space time and reality, in past present and future with cuteness that can shine through even the most stubborn, evil, and twisted with hearts that brings the hope and love of a thousand thriving tallgrass prairies. *gaaaaaasp*

Holding on to the goldenrod flower for dear warmth (it was pretty chilly today)

Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute

Common Eastern Bumble Bee and a Yellow-legged Flower Fly

Dark-veined Longhorn Bee with tons of pollen on its legs

American Pokeweed berries dripping red liquid in my family's and my backyard

American Pokeweed berries dripping red liquid in the marshy prairie at north pond

Tons of Candleflame Lichen on a honey locust

A very large Chinese Mantis

Another Chinese Mantis, this one on the side of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Grooming

Chinese Mantis ootheca (egg case)

Unidentified plant in the bramble (blackberry, raspberry, and dewberry) genus

A very pale Wild Bergamot plant. Seemingly, it has run out of some type of soil nutrient

A grooming Bald-faced Hornet

Cleaning the eyes

Cleaning a leg

White Crocuses

When I first saw them, I was like "awesome, Mycoheterotrophs!!!". Mycoheterotrophs being plants that have lost photosynthesis and instead parasititze fungi that are mutualistic with the roots of green plants. But I did some research and they're just white crocuses that have dropped their leaves. Boring. Real boring.


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