Wildflower Update: This week common milkweed, bee balm, slender mountain mint and purple conflowers began blooming. Butterfly weed is in full bloom. Below, two species of bumblebees and a hummingbird clearwing moth. Above, a dragonfly feeding on a swallowtail butterfly.
Pollinators and Wildlife: I saw four fawns this morning while bush-hogging. I do not have a cab on our tractor and can see them moving through the vegetation when I get close to them. They were all very small and hardly able to walk/run. I saw four Monarchs on Saturday. Three were flying around above one of the large milkweed colonies on our farm near Long Creek.
Below ... Swallowtails are more frequent this week as the Great Spangled Fritillariy population has gone down. We have thousands of fireflies this week near dusk.
Work on the Farm: I am still bush-hogging and maintaining our 50 or so large milkweed colonies.
We support:
Round House, Jeans and Workware, Made in the USA for 112 years.
http://www.round-house.com/
Red Pig Tools, Garden tools, Made in the USA.
http://www.redpigtools.com/servlet/StoreFront
FEDCO, Co-op Garden Supplies, Seeds, Trees and Bulbs
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/
Johnny's Selected Seeds and Garden Tools
http://www.johnnyseeds.com/
Roundstone Native Seed ... A Kentucky Company!
https://www.roundstoneseed.com/
Prairie Moon Nursery, Native Seeds and Plants
https://www.prairiemoon.com/
Kelley's Beeskeeping ... A Kentucky Company! ... at least for now.
http://www.kelleybees.com/
and these organizations ...
Xerces Society
Journey North
Monarch Watch
Firefly Watch - Museum of Science, Boston
Sierra Club
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