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The annual return of the icy weather larder for the local Northern Cardinal pair. It provided for them all Winter.

Caterpillar found hanging on flower pot 050921 (posted previously.) Hatched early evening 052521.

Observation for the frog: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/96732138

Hard to tell, but 3 individuals here. Found together under scrap wood.

So pretty!

Honestly, no idea what this is. Found in a dry creek bed.

Under Q falcata

Parasitoids here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116623157

Dark hairs

Nest with at least 2 nestlings.

Papa (heard him sing) with the three chicks. They are getting big, barely fit in the nest.

Q palustris - looks like I caught a visitor busting in

Very cryptic, fly landed very close to it and immediately regretted it.

Large tree stump resprouting with several years worth of growth from base. Cant tell if chestnut or type of oak. Found in moist bottomland forest

Humped Trashline Orbweaver Cyclosa turbinata?

Clay soil.

Munching on a cabbage white (Pieris rapae).

Drawn-down muddy bar along a secondary channel of the James River.

With prey

On a purple cone flower

Raided the nest of an American Robin

Nesting above apartment complex on water tower