Jane
Beauuuuutiful!!!!!!!
Grant
Cool ! Those colors are certainly vibrant ! I can only imagine how beautiful your surroundings are ! Do the lilies attract any sort of species of insects or birds or butterflies ???
Not very much, the hummingbirds even ignore them.
But the milkweed that my husband has out in the back of his veggie garden attract every bug in our town, and butterflys too. He was taking some macro pictures last week, and all the bugs ganged up on him and he went flying across the yard with a couple of honeybees and yellowjackets in hot pursuit. I was laughing too hard,,,,,
Jane
Jane,
What a display!
Our wet spring or our very harsh winter had the opposite effect. The wild day lilies along the road hardly bloomed at all and we lost about a dozen in the garden. Critters?
Bob
We lost all our roses, all our butterfly bushes, and the heartbreaking thing was that we lost our huge Mimosa tree.
Coldest January in SE Massachusetts on record. But we are re-planting. Jane
Jane,
They are beautiful ….
Wendy
Beautiful Lilies, Jane . We have several varieties, but not nearly the array you show have. On the other hand, I’ve got lots of hummingbirds <G> . The hummers , however, are not as colorful as those lovely lilies.
🙂
Brent
Brent, how about the ‘hummingbird hawkmoth ?’ seen one of those strange spectacular creatures yet ? I saw my very first one three years ago. Haven’t seen one since. I was very lucky since he was after the red flowers in the hangin basket just outside my window. I could closely watch him in awe…Didn’t have a digital back then 🙁 Probably didn’t have film left either. Probably would not have even tried anyways. He was too quick but he stayed long enough to give me a good look !
We have some great pictures before the digital age too, its just me taking so much time sorting thru them and then scanning them then getting them organized and onto the web or into our albums. Time consuming, but great fun.
Jane
Never seen one, Jodi, ‘cept in pictures. Probably he’d be gone before the digicam focussed, anyway <G> . I took about 20 shots of a butterfly today, trying to catch him with his wings spread. I got a couple, but they’re not right. Makes me feel like shooting in "movie " mode, and grabbing a low res frame.
🙂
Brent
Hi Jodi, I do have one of those thingies in an old photo, but it is on my old Mac and the ext HD, so would take me time to find it.
Its the bee hummingbird? Remind me tomorrow, and I will crank up the old machines and find it, its a macro.
I guess they are a bit rare, but for this one I do have a decent photo of, if I can find it. Jane
Jane, that would be great ! No rush….when ya find it.
Wonderfull pictures Jane!!
Ray
Someone posted this to another forum Jodi:
http://www.pbase.com/image/31842422 Nice photo of the moth your referring to.
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James Hutchinson
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Brent, how about the ‘hummingbird hawkmoth ?’ seen one of those
strange spectacular creatures yet ? I saw my very first one three years ago. Haven’t seen one since. I was very lucky since he was after the red flowers in the hangin basket just outside my window. I could closely watch him in awe…Didn’t have a digital back then 🙁 Probably didn’t have film left either. Probably would not have even tried anyways. He was too quick but he stayed long enough to give me a good look !
The black/white catepillars on milkweed feast hearty, make a pupa (sp) and emerge as Monarch Butterflys.
That is a neat picture of the lobster moth on the Phlox. We occasionally see them around here, but I have only one picture of one, and it was with a Kodak disposable. If I can find it on my old Mac, I will put it here.
We do have tons of Milkweed too. It is quite fragrant.
The bees all took off after my husband last week when he was trying to macro some of them. But they didn’t sting him thank goodness.
Jane
