If you fit into a curled leaf, it makes a dreamy wind shelter.
#SquirrelTreeFrog #Naturalists #Habitat #EvergladesNationslPark #Frogs #SoithFlorida

Mangrove habitat by Biscayne Bay, Miami.

Slo-mo of today’s Longtailed Skipper. 💚 It almost looks like a bird here.
#Butterflies #Wildlife #FlowerReport #Gardening #Naturalists
#Bloomscrolling #Miami #NativePlants

Today in our mostly native street-side swale: a Longtailed Skipper drinks from Pentas (exotic). Maybe it hosted on the invasive Desmodium I can’t bring myself to pull (?)
#Butterflies #Wildlife #FlowerReport #Gardening #Naturalists #Bloomscrolling #Miami #NativePlants

Is it possible for a people to value flowers more than the Dutch?
With the Blumenstilleben, flowered brocades, and Delftware vases inside the building, this October garden suggests not.
#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #art #nature #Amsterdam #Rijksmuseum 🌷🇳🇱

From a distance, I thought I was seeing a new species of butterfly. It’s my beloved Giant Swallowtail ovipositing on Zanthoxylum fagara with her entire hind wings bitten off!

Slow-mo of Giant Swallowtail ovipositing on Wild Lime, Zanthoxylum fagara, in a hell strip wildlife garden. Miami’s daily rains bring new growth, and a new wave of Autumn butterflies. This species can use citrus as a host and adapts to the urban-scape.
#gardening #nativeplants #butterflies #rewild