I can't control the lighting, so the picture isn't the best. Watching this Baldfaced Wasp (Dolichovespula maculata) methodically process a horsefly(Tabaninae) for transport did make my day. It captured it, clipped its wings, legs and head off,then flew off. They deserve an honorary statue.

Blueberries, Bumblebee about land on milkweed flowers, fifth instar monarch caterpillar and Bumblebee on milkweed

Hey. Only 9000 more to go. Followed by randomization.

They are one of the most able and intelligent animals existing. I was a maintenance man at this building. The mother climbed up the corner of this building, either removed or found a rotating roof vent open and used the attic as home for her kits. The tenants admired her and fed her crackers

Prepping containers for testing growth of mycorrhiza inoculated vs. uninoculated soil. The grad school will remain, but the rest of us are laid off June 30 courtesy of the Trump administration.

I'm concerned that my 22 yr old cat is watching a lecture on correspondence analysis so attentively

Go into ecology, they said. You'll be outside. 1450lines of data input later